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Exceptional staff, the highest certifications, training you:

Here you will meet the Staff at Diving Enterprises. Our highly qualified staff is one of the key elements in making Diving Enterprises successful over the years. We've trained over 5,500 students, have logged over 15,500 combined dives, and have over 150 years of combined diving experience...and that's just our staff!

So now you might be asking yourself, "So how does this effect me?" When you sign for SCUBA are getting involved with a sport that can give me a lifetime of good memories. It's not only SCUBA, it is traveling to exotic destinations around the world and SCUBA is part of the adventure. That's where we fit in.

We know a lot about SCUBA, and we have the professional staff you want to get the highest regarded, most excepted, recreational SCUBA certification in the world. But it doesn't stop there, our instructors and staff hold some of the most prestigious training certifications available and have decades of experience. Who better to have teaching you than someone who has been doing it for years. When it comes to deciding who you want training you. The obvious decision is Diving Enterprises. We invite you to read about our staff.

Total number of dives by our staff: 16966 and counting...

Ken Dunker

Qualifications: Store Owner, Course Director, Scuba Instructor, Parachute Rigger, Pilot
Types of Instruction: Scuba, Emergency First Responder, Technical Diving, Instructors
Total Dives: 6008
Started Diving: Jul 01, 1968    40 years ago.
Additional Info: The Course Director rating is the equivalent of having a postgraduate degree in scuba diving instruction, there is not a more prestigious level of certification within the dive industry.
Best dives: Cave diving in Akumal, wreck diving the Andrea Doria.

Mary Dunker

Qualifications: Store Owner, OWSI, MSDT, IDC Staff, Cave Diver, Technical Diver, Equestrian
Types of Instruction: Scuba, DiveMasters, Assistant Instructors,
Total Dives: 905
Started Diving: Apr 15, 1994    14 years ago.

Dave Dodson, Jr.

Qualifications: OWSI
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: 523
Started Diving: May 15, 1999    9 years ago.
Additional Info: Our country boy. Always in a good mood. Liked diving enough to marry another instructor. Best Dive: 7 Sisters in Fiji

Allen Grigg

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT, Cave Diver, Techncal Diver, Research Diver
Types of Instruction: Scuba, DiveMaster,
Total Dives: 2185
Started Diving: Jun 12, 1995    13 years ago.
Additional Info: Best Dive: Little River - Most interesting project: Research diving in South Holston Lake, author of

Todd Wilson

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT, Cave Diver
Types of Instruction: Scuba, MSDT, Emergency First Response
Total Dives: 1537
Started Diving: Oct 03, 1993    14 years ago.
Additional Info: Has a family of divers. Most have worked for the store at one time of another.
Best dives: Bonaire, Cave dive at Little River

Dave Bergeron

Qualifications: OWSI, Cavern Diver
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: 256
Started Diving: Jan 01, 2001    7 years ago.
Additional Info: What can we say...It's Berg!

Cathy Owens

Qualifications: OWSI
Types of Instruction: Scuba
Total Dives: 459
Started Diving: Jan 01, 1995    13 years ago.
Additional Info: Keeps Mickey in-line. That's a full time function.

Mickey Owens

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT, IDS Staff, Master Instructor, Technical Instructor, EFR, Teacher, Chess Instructor
Types of Instruction: OWSI, DiveMaster, Assistanct Instructor, Technical Diver
Total Dives: 856
Started Diving: Jan 01, 1995    13 years ago.
Additional Info: He's big, He's bald, he's beautiful

Mel Ayers

Qualifications: OWSI, EMT, research Diver w/ Jacques Cousteau, former Dive Supervisor for Lynchburg College. All around nice guy
Types of Instruction: Scuba, Seal Team, Master Seal Team
Total Dives: 1100
Started Diving: Jan 23, 1963    45 years ago.
Additional Info: Loves to teach kids. Certified one of the youngest (10) National Geographic Open Water Divers ever.

Dave Bowman

Qualifications: Instructor
Types of Instruction: OWSI
Total Dives: 1501
Started Diving: Jan 01, 1998    10 years ago.
Additional Info: Mr. Clean. Left Hawaii to come here?

Bill Holmes

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT
Types of Instruction: Scuba
Total Dives: 426
Started Diving: Jan 25, 1997    11 years ago.
Additional Info: Retired Navy Chief, Lots of dives in Italy and surrounding area

Ron Dodd

Qualifications: DM, Nitrox, Wreck, Deep
Types of Instruction: DiveMaster
Total Dives: 105
Started Diving: Jun 02, 2002    6 years ago.
Additional Info: Most interesting dive: Cooper river artifact hunting. Favorite diving: wreck

Kyle Creamer

Qualifications: Master Instructor, Cave Diver, Technical Deep Diver
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: 1000
Started Diving: Jan 01, 1989    19 years ago.
Additional Info: Significant Dives: Belize Blue Hole (400+ ft), Research & Recovery dives on the USS Monoitor, former Store Owner

Mike Wittmeier

Qualifications: Master Scuba Diver
Total Dives: 69
Started Diving: Jun 30, 2002    6 years ago.
Additional Info: Best dives: Devils Throat, Cozumel, U352 and Santa Rosa Wall, Cozumel

James Wooten

Qualifications: Rescue Diver
Types of Instruction: PADI
Total Dives: 36
Started Diving: Jun 30, 2002    6 years ago.
Additional Info: Partner to Mike, the two of them are fun to watch
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