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.