Although a native of California, I did not learn how to dive until I was stationed in the US Army in
Colorado. Once I was certified and moved back to California, I began diving full time. I started taking
more classes and moved up the ranks of the recreational diving world. While moving up the ranks, I
discovered that I loved working with students and new divers and sharing my experiences and passion
for the ocean. In 2003, I was given an opportunity to be a supervisor of a public safety diving team for a
major metropolitan sheriff’s department in Southern California. After 7 years of being a supervisor of
that team, I was promoted to the Dive Officer and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of that
team. After gaining more expertise in the realm of recreational and public safety diving, I set my sights
on technical diving and enjoyed that discipline. I am a PADI Master Instructor, who teaches recreational
diving, public safety diving, and most open circuit technical diving courses. I specialize in technical
sidemounting courses, but will teach back mounted doubles as well. More recently, I have ventured
into the world of Closed Circuit Rebreathers (CCRs), but just see it as another tool to explore the depths
of the oceans I love. I have been diving all over the United States and the world. In my 35 years of
diving, it is difficult to say where my favorite dive destinations are, but if I had to choose, it’s a tie
between California kelp forests and the underwater caves of Florida.