CERTIFICATION: PADI open water scuba instructor.

# OF DIVES: 700+ and many hours in the pool and quarry teaching.

AT PAN AQUA DIVING: I teach Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Dry Suit, Deep, Wreck. 

FIRST BREATH ON SCUBA: Who can ever forget the one foot visibility out in Montauk during my Open Water Check out. 

BEST DIVE EVER: Well that's hard as there as been way too many fun dives, a wreck dive in North Carolina with huge schools of large pelagic fish swimming around me, a surreal cave dive in the Yucatan swimming through the halocline and watching everything go out of focus. 

FAVORITE CRITTER: No particular one favorite here either, depends on the dive but who can't help like the California Sea Lions that just swam around me for an hour as I settled down on the sand and watched them play.. 

WHEN I AM NOT DIVING:  I'm a professional freelance photographer and I like to run, cycle, go hiking and in general be outdoors having fun.