Experienced Staff in Key Largo
Our Professional Education Staff consists of 6 PADI Course Directors, 3 of which have been consistently awarded Platinum Status. They are supported by our robust staff of PADI Master Instructors and PADI IDC Staff Instructors. All together they form our dedicated IDC/CDC team and they have come together to create the best real world training environment you could ask for. We put this team together not just because of their experience, but because we believe our team philosophy and approach translates to a better learning experience for our Instructor Candidates.
Our Diving Staff Members:
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Kirk McFarlin
PADI Elite Instructor Award 2016Certifications:
Side Mount Instructor
PADI Platinum Course Director
Kirk was born in the desert of West Texas where water was merely something that came from a faucet. Kirk was however, drawn to water from the earliest age. He swam competitively through his high school years and his first real job was being a lifeguard and teaching swimming lessons to children. Kirk have always felt at home in the water, but life got in the way and for the majority of his adult life he was a police officer. During his 31 years of police work....
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Neil Evans
Elite Instructor AwardCertifications:
Neil has always been drawn to the water from an early age whether it be swimming, waterparks, snorkeling, and boating. In 2012 Diving became the next logical step for Neil to take to be in the water more! From his first breaths underwater Neil knew that diving was for him and that he wanted to help others get the same joy that he has while diving.
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Jim Wyatt
Rebreather InstructorCertifications:
Rebreather Instructor
Rebreather Instructor Trainer
Deep Cave Diving Instructor
USCG 100T Master Captain
Jim was certified as a PADI instructor in 1974 and spent several years in the United States Navy as a Diving/Salvage Officer after graduating from the U.S. Navy's Officer Candidate School. Jim was also trained as a recompression chamber operator/supervisor by the US Navy, where his first assignment to the fleet was as Gunnery Officer on the USS Spiegel Grove, LSD-32 which is now an artificial reef off of Key Largo.
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Billy Wise
Certifications:
Billy's first introduction to scuba came by way of his father. At an early age, Billy assisted his dad on various commercial diving jobs along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In 1978, Billy became a PADI Open Water diver and began exploring recreationally around the globe.
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Jardin Macdonald
PADI Elite Instructor Award 2016Certifications:
Jardin came to the United States in 2007 from the sunny shores of Australia where he grew up surfing, surf lifeguarding and working at a customs brokerage. Travelling around the states for 1 year before finally settling on Chicago, he missed living beside the ocean so much that he took up scuba diving in a 40 degree quarry and absolutely loved it!!!
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D.J. started diving quite by accident in 1999 when he visited the Florida Keys for Christmas vacation. The resort mixed up his dolphin swim reservations, and they offered to make up for it with a Discover Scuba Class. The rest is history, as they say.
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IDC Course Schedule
We run PADI IDC's about once a month throughout the year, so you are never more than a few days away from our next class cycle!
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Career Package Builder
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PADI IDC Report
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Featured Specialty Course
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Our Next IDC Course:
MSDT Prep...
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Testimonial: Andrew Forsyth
Chris did all coordination with the VA which completely funded my Instructor programs , affording me maximum ...
