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.
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 |