INSTRUCTORS

Dive Control Specialist Instructor #6181

Best Diving Advice: Keep learning all that you can. Never take for granted you know it all. And most of all, ENJOY the diving you love to do.

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PADI O/W Certified~1981; PDIC O/W Instructor~1986;
Dan O2 Instructor~1994; IANTD Nitrox Instructor~1996; SSI O/W Instructor~1996; SSI Adv.Instructor~1996; Dive-Con Instructor~1996

Specialties: Advanced Nitrox 150', Stage Decompression 150', DPV Diver, Wreck Diving, Night/Limited Visibility, Nitrox Blender, Deep Diving, Nitrox, Stress & Rescue, U/W Photography Search & Recovery, Ice Diving, Boat, Reef Ecology Fish I.D., DanO2, CPR, First-Aid, Equipment Tech, Drysuit Diver, Computer Diver, and Navigation, Nira Full Face.

Diving Accomplishments: Teaching students to really enjoy diving even when they think they want to hang up their mask, fins, and snorkel.  Receiving the Platinum 1000 Instructor Rating from SSI.  Winning BTS 2nd Place U/W Photo Competition.  Completing the first step of my Technical Diving goals by obtaining my Advanced Nitrox & Staged Decompression Certification.

Advanced O/W Instructor # 6184

Best Diving Advice: Don't let egos rule your brain, be prepared for every dive, get the proper training.

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PDIC O/W Certified~1993; PDIC O/W Instructor~1996;
SSI O/W Instructor~1996; SSI Adv.Instructor~1996

Specialties: Deep Diving, Drysuit Diving, Equipment Techniques, Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility Search & Recovery, Stress & Rescue, U/W Photography, Nitrox, Ice Diving, Nitrox Blender, DanO2, CPR, First-Aid.

Diving Accomplishments: 350 plus logged dives. Honorable Mention for Macro at the Nikonos Shootout, Cayman Brac 1997.

Gary Dewire - 

Advanced O/W Instructor # 6183

Best Diving Advice: Relax. Let your training and equipment allow you to enjoy the sport of diving. Knowledge is strength, mentally and physically. Never stop learning, read as much as you can and continue your education with specialty courses.

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PDIC O/W Certified~1994; PDIC O/W Instructor~1996; SSI O/W Instructor~1997; SSI Adv.Instructor~1997

Specialties: Advanced Nitrox 150', Stage Decompression 150', DPV Diver, Wreck Diving, Deep Diving, Nitrox, Stress & Rescue, DanO2, CPR, First-Aid.

Diving Accomplishments: Becoming an instructor and diving with sharks in N.C.. Wreck diving is my elected favorite. I enjoy the history involved, therefore completing my Technical Deep/Deco Diving certification.

 

Rick Bechtel -   

Advanced O/W Instructor # 6182

Best Diving Advice: Learn your Buoyancy! Take only pictures. Leave nothing behind except your bubbles and footprints.

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PDIC O/W Certified~1986; PDIC O/W Instructor~1992; SSI O/W Instructor~1997; SSI Adv.Instructor~1997

Specialties: Deep Diving, Drysuit Diving, Equipment Techniques, Fish I.D., Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility, Reef Ecology, Stress & Rescue, U/W Photography, Nitrox, DanO2, CPR, First-Aid

Diving Accomplishments: 2nd Place Macro, 1997 Nikonos Shootout, Cayman Brac. Designed two specialty courses: Fish I.D. & Reef Ecology. Diving Australia's Great Barrier Reef with my son, Rick.

Dive Control Specialist Instructor #6815

Best Diving Advice: Continue your education in diving so your able to enjoy the sport to the fullest...

Other Ratings:  

PADI O/W Certified~1997; PADI Adv. O/W~1997;PADI DiveMaster~1998; SSI Dive Control Spec.~1999; Dan O2 Instructor~2000; ; SSI O/W Instructor~2000; SSI Adv.Instructor~2000; Century Instructor~2000; Dive-Con Instructor~2001; NSC First Aid & CPR Instructor~2001

Specialties:  Advanced Nitrox 150', Stage Decompression 150', DPV Diver, Wreck Diving, Night/Limited Visibility, Nitrox Blender, Deep Diving, Nitrox, Stress & Rescue, Search & Recovery, Boat, DanO2, CPR, First-Aid, Equipment Tech, Drysuit Diver, Computer Diver, Navigation, and Red Cross Lifeguard, Red Cross Professional Rescuer.

Diving Accomplishments: Becoming an Instructor.  To bring as many people into diving as possible and helping them to develop their skills and enjoyment for diving.

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Bill Stuck -   

Dive Control Specialist  

Best Diving Advice: Diving may not come as easy as you think it should, don't get discouraged. The more you dive the more confident you will become, thus the more you will relax and enjoy it.

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PDIC O/W Certified~1990; SSI Dive Con~1998

Specialties: Deep Diving, Drysuit Diving, DanO2, CPR, First-Aid, Equipment Techniques, Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility Search & Recovery, Stress & Rescue, U/W Photography, Nitrox.

Diving Accomplishments: 300+ logged dives to date. Eight trips to Caribbean, three wreck dive trips to N.C., and two trips to 1000 Islands. Trying to become a better diver by improving my skills on every dive.

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STAFF AND SUPPORT

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Vicki Vanpelt -  Co/Owner 

Advanced O/W Diver

  Best Diving Advice: Respect, the underwater world you dive in. You are its visitor.  Be humble and gracious to all that it allows you to experience.

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PDIC O/W Certified~1990; PDIC Adv. O/W ~1994;
SSI O/W ~1996 

Specialties: Deep Diving, Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility, Nitrox, Nitrox Blender.

Diving Accomplishments:  Since I am claustrophobic, making any dive when vis is low, less than 15ft. Diving with Reef Squid. Once you know how to approach them, make them know you are non threatening, they will swim right along side of you. Stopping when you stop, just hovering, watching. They are as curious about you as you are them. My first dive with Sand Tiger Sharks in N.C. This is not a controlled or trained environment by means of performance feedings. They know and trust the divers through their own instincts. This, to me, is a privilege.

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Kerry Broadt -  Staff

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PDIC O/W Certified~1989 

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Kerri Booker (BOO) -  Staff

  Best Diving Advice:  "  Stay Warm "  

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SSI O/W Certified~2004 

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