Background

Owner of Columbia Scuba
PADI Course Director (Instructor Trainer), Emergency First Response Instructor Trainer

Credentialed as an Instructor/Instructor Trainer for the following courses:

• Open Water Diver
• Advanced Open Water Diver
• Rescue Diver
• Divemaster
• Assistant Open Water Instructor
• Open Water Instructor
• Emergency First Response (Primary & Secondary First Aid/CPR/AED/Care for Children
• Adaptive Techniques Specialty (focused on assisting students with disabilities)
• Search and Recovery Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Wreck Diver
• Digital Underwater Photography Diver
• Night Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Emergency Oxygen Provider
• Enriched Air Nitrox
• Underwater Navigator
• Fish Identification
• Search & Recovery
• Drift Diving
• Boat Diving
• Deep Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Project Aware Diver
• Aware Coral Reef Conservation
• Aware Dive Against Debris
• Aware Shark Conservation

Education

BA Journalism – University of South Carolina 1984
Graduate Studies – University of South Carolina (Higher Education Administration)

Teaching

Beginning & Advanced Scuba, Primary and Secondary First Aid/CPR