Our Staff - Dive Masters
A certified and insured Divemaster provides on-site leadership of both students and certified divers during diving activity. Divemasters lead tour portions for SCUBA divers in unfamiliar environments. Columbus SCUBA, Inc. (CSI) Divemasters go through an extensive training program as opposed to a quick course. All of the CSI Divemasters are taught and tested in great detail on the physics, physiology, and advanced medical aspects of diving. They are certified to the level in which they are trained. For example, a Cavern Divemaster is an additional certification that must be learned. CSI Divemasters have worked for extended periods of time in places such as Australia, Belize, Andros, and Mexico. We appoint our Divemasters to areas in which they have experience. CSI also offers job assistance through its extended network of IANTD, PADI and SEI dive professionals and shops around the globe.
Chris Morgan - Dive Master
Chris is a U.S. Army Veteran and traveled extensively around the world. His first diving experience was a resort dive in Cozumel where he dived along Palancar reef. He remained interested in SCUBA, but the diving bug really took off when his son Gage became old enough to become junior-certified. Chris became Open Water certified through Columbus Scuba, Inc. (CSI) and quickly pursued his Advanced Open Water certification. The professionalism and enthusiasm shown by the Columbus Scuba staff has convinced Chris to pursue his Dive Master certification.
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Amanda Shope - IANTD/PADI Divemaster
Amanda has spent the fall and winter of 2008/2009 earning her IANTD and PADI Divemaster rating. She has logged more than 60 dives on the Andros, Bahamas reef and inland Blue Holes. Her favorite dive location is The Ampetheatre in Andros. She hopes to some day make it to Micronesia and dive the reefs and wrecks in the South Pacific.
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Chelsea Robb - Dive Master
Chelsea has been diving since she was 15 years old. She completed her PADI Divemaster course in 2006 in Caye Caulker, Belize where her uncle owns a dive outfit. She has visited the Bahamas, Central America, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
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Tyler Bonner - PADI Divemaster
Tyler has been certified in sea kayaking and white water canoeing. He traveled several times to Andros, Bahamas for SCUBA diving training and adventure travel. He is currently a student at Hocking College, studying Ecotourism.
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Tom Chapin - Dive Master in Training
Tom’s diving career started while he was living in Wisconsin in 2001 where he first got his Open Water Certification. He continued on to get his Advance Open Water shortly afterwards with a dive at Lake Superior at one of their famous ship wreck sites. After a few years, he got back into diving with one of his buddy’s from his reserve unit .
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Ron Magee - Dive Master in Training
Ron's Scuba career took off in '00 from credit courses at Sinclair College in Dayton, OH. He got his Open Water, Advanced, and Rescue certifications through Southern Ohio Diving Academy and all of his dives were limited to the local quarries. Following a short hiatus, in 2009 he jumped back into diving and has been pursuing his Dive Master.
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