CERTIFICATION: PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, NAUI Instructor Trainer

# OF DIVES: 10,000+ accumulated in all corners of the world. 

AT PAN AQUA DIVING: I love teaching the Basic open water course. The excitement of new divers is so infectious it keeps the class exciting. I am a photojournalist and teach the underwater photography class. I also teach several other specialties including underwater naturalist, night diver, deep diver, wreck diver, boat diver, search and recovery, multi-level diver, navigation, diver propulsion vehicle, rescue, and peak performance buoyancy. 

FIRST BREATH ON SCUBA: I was 10 years old and in the Bahamas with my parents. The young, and oh so good-looking, sailing instructor asked if I wanted to go diving with him on his day off. Did I ever, and another diver was born. 

BEST DIVE EVER:  I have always had a fondness for sharks. It was in the Maldives, at about 60 feet, when this forty-foot charmer came to swim with me. For a half-hour it was just the whale shark and I. Then, with a poke of fin, he said goodbye, sounded, and went to places I could not follow, but I shall remember him always. 

WHEN I AM NOT DIVING: I am President of my own Advertising/PR agency, MultiMedia House, serve as VP Marketing for Beneath the Sea, the largest consumer dive show in the Americas, and service PR for the Woman Divers Hall of Fame, where I am an inaugural member.