Our Staff - Instructor Trainer
An Instructor Trainer is a qualified dive professional whose role is to coordinate Instructor Institutes and conduct them. They have the ability to train and certify new instructor candidates. Instructor Trainer remains one of the highest levels of SCUBA diving certifications attainable.
Columbus SCUBA, Inc. (CSI) has one Instructor Trainer on staff and one Instructor-Trainer Trainer. This gives us the ability to do our training "in-house" with familiar staff and students rather than contract out Instructor Trainers. CSI is often contracted out to assist other dive centers for their Instructor training. We have many years of experience in the realm of training competent instructors, and have sought out work locally and around the world as Dive Professionals.
Andy Silverman - Instructor Trainer
Andy made his first dive in October of 1987. In 1994, he traveled to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to continue his education as a diver and completed his Divemaster while working on the Trinity, a trimoran running day trips out of the Whitsunday Islands.
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Georges Gawinowski - Instructor Trainer
Georges Gawinowski has been a full time diving professional for 15 years. Georges is a well-accomplished IANTD Instructor Trainer and Technical Instructor. He is member of the IANTD Board of Advisors. Georges is also a Closed Circuit Rebreather cave instructor with NSS/CDS and recreational instructor with CMAS and PADI.
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Bob Stovers - Instructor Trainer
Bob made his first dive in January 1971 in Joplin Missouri. The following January, he dived the waters off San Andros Islands in the Bahamas. In 1978, Bob became a NAUI instructor and taught his first open water class a month after being certified.
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Steve Treinish - PSDA-Instructor Trainer
Steve is currently serving as a firefighter with the Columbus Fire Department, assigned to Ladder Company 2, at one of the busiest stations in the country. Also serving as a NFPA rescue technician and detailed to various heavy rescue assignments.
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