NORTH DIVING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Colin did his Instructor Exam with Darren in October 2013, since then he has had much experience teaching scuba diving within Cornwall. He is also a Trimix Diver and Tec Deep Instructor diving with a few diving businesses in his recreational time.
As a keen marine conservationist he appeared on BBC television with one of the diving projects in Cornwall. Like Darren, Colin loves going on Tec Deep/Trimix dives for the pure enjoyment, excitement and fun more adventurous diving.
Dale is our wonderful PADI Course Director who taught both Colin and Darren their Open Water Scuba Instructor Course before going onto their Instructor Exams. She is also responsible for their Technical Diving Instructor ratings! Dale is probably one of the most up to date and long servicing Course Directors around with a wealth of experience in both Instructor and Diver Training as she still teaches every thing from DSD's up to IDC Staff Instructors amazing being up to date with every thing!
Doing an Instructor Examinations can be very nerve racking for some IDC Candidates which Dale is very experienced dealing with, as an excellent instructor trainer. She got both Darren and Colin through their IE's which says alot! Most importantly she has a wicked sense of humour and is basically a great fun dive buddy at anyone could wish for.
Job Titles:
- Owner and IDC Staff Instructor
As a young boy started skin diving from the age of 5, as he grew older he wanted to go spearfishing but his father would not allow him to own a speargun. In April 1996 he did his PADI Open Water Diver in the Red Sea and started diving professionally in 2011. He grew up in the home counties before going to read Physics at Kings College, University of London, then went on to develop a career in Investment Banking in the City. Whilst enjoying the City Life he also spent many years serving in the Territorial Army. Now he is living a dream life of a Professional Diver founding North Diving.
Job Titles:
- Digital Underwater Photographer
This course takes an Adventure (or Advanced Open Water) Diver to the recreational diving limits of 40m
North Diving Thailand Co Limited is a subsidiary of the North Diving based on Nui Beach in the island of Phuket. Package deals can be arranged for one or more weeks diving in Phuket, see below. Nui Beach is a private members club located at the end of a jungle track near the southern tip of Phuket.
We are based actually on the Beach which is fairly rare in Phuket. Shore and local boat diving is excellent as the bay is secluded with only private access by land making it a tranquil dive facility with unspoilt water, corals and abundant marine life from the shore. Its regarded as the best shore diving in the Island. Its the perfect place to do a wide range of dive courses, then sunbathing on the beach or cool down in the swim up to Bar and Restaurant or relax with a massage and sauna in the Spa.
Stony cove was originally a Granite Quarry at the turn of the century. In the early sixties the quarry was flooded to make it into an Commercial Diving Training Centre for the North Sea Oil Fields. Then by the late seventies it was converted in to an Inland Recreational Diving Site. Now it has been developed further in great facility including the Nemo Bar and Restaurant. The Dive site has many wrecks including the Stanegarth, the U.K.'s largest inland ship wreck, and the Nautilus submarine.
This is a great location for Recreational Diver Training and basic Technical diving.