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| Blue Ocean Divers Staff | | The Blue Ocean Divers staff is a dedicated and diverse group of divers. We see dedication & diversity as an integral part of any successful learning experience. The dedicated professionals who make up the staff at Blue Ocean Divers are key to teaching new divers and advancing your current skills safely and responsibly. They are also here to answer any and all of your dive equipment & training questions. Please take some time to find out a little more about each of them. |
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| | Patti Elsner |  | It's time for an update of my autobiography. The doctors have cleared me for diving, so I'm back to enjoying my time underwater. I have a new goal, to become a PADI Master Diver. Since I have no desire to go the PADI instructor route, the PADI Master Diver is the way for me. When we were down in Florida I completed my Enriched Air certification, the first of my five specialties for my Master Diver certification. Now I am figuring out what other specialties I want to do next, will it be: | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Mike Elsner |  | They tell me I'm the boss. But I go by "Mach10" Mike. I have certified over 650 divers in at all levels of training up to and including Assistant Instructor. I am currently a PADI Master Instructor. | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Bob Hamilton |  | My wife and I went on our first Caribbean cruise in March of 2006. She pointed out that the ship had a “Discover SCUBA” excursion in Grand Cayman and she thought I might like to try it. What she didn’t know... | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Jim Crisanti |  | I’m Jim Crisanti, a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, TDI Technical Instructor, and Emergency First Response Instructor at Blue Ocean Divers. I have been diving since 1997... | | Click here to learn more... | | Debbie Miller |  | When I’m not working with students, you will find me diving with a camera in my hand. Photography has been a passion of mine since I was ten years old, and my dad first put his SLR in my hands. | | Click here to learn more... | | Tom Rieselman |  | I love to travel and dive with Blue Ocean Divers on their trips. We always have fun & meet lots of great people. I hold the record for the most dives in 1 day on Curacao(7), including 2 tank night dives, wearing out several dive buddies. | | Click here to learn more... | | Al Rimington |  | I started Diving in 1969 to keep the city pool clean. Because I was a city employee, managing the pool, I was able to be on the underwater recovery team for the fire department until 1974. I quit diving when I got married. | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Kurt Henninger |  | In 1988, with a gift certificate from my wife, I became an open water diver and then an advanced open water diver. It was love at first splash! I dove whenever and wherever I could: beautiful reefs, fascinating local wrecks, lakes and quarries. Finally in 2001 I became serious... | | Click here to learn more... | | Louise Mosher |  | As a kid I watched Sea Hunt on television and dreamed about the day I would dive too! Back then there were few female divers so it seemed it would stay a dream. After a snorkeling excursion in Montego Bay, I knew I had to go for it. My first certification level was a PADI Open Water Diver in 1996. I was hooked! I discovered a passion for learning about diving and actually developing each skill. Since then I have steadily progressed through the ranks. I really enjoy my role as a PADI Assistant Instructor. | | Click here to learn more... | | Brent Mosher |  | I have always loved, boats, fishing and anything involving water. My diving experience started in June of 1996 when I earned my PADI Open Water C-card. I continued my training and currently hold a PADI Assistant Instructor certification earned in 2000. Without a doubt it was my most rewarding "Cert". In addition to improving my skills, it was a ton of fun. I average about 35 dives a year, not counting confined water training. I have been fortunate enough to experience about half of these in warm ocean waters including Bonaire, the Bahamas and the Florida Keys. In 2003. | | Click here to learn more... | | Mike Nutter |  | I had wanted to learn to dive since I was very young. I finally had my chance to a take a discover scuba class with my wife on my honeymoon in 2006 in St. Lucia. My wife was slightly reluctant to try diving but she decided to give it a shot. I was a little nervous and consumed a lot of air on our dive. My wife looked like a champ and I was hoping already to be able to return home and take a certification course. Upon surfacing my wife simply had one thing to say "don't ask me to ever do that again." My SCUBA dreams faded and I did not think about it again for another two years. | | Click here to learn more... | | Terry Stockdale |  | I was certified for OpenWater in October 1987 and immediately signed up for the Advanced Open Water training (Adventures in Diving). I was certified for AOW in November 1987. After getting some dives under my (weight) belt (sorry… a little dive humor) I continued my dive training and received my Rescue Diver Certification in July 1988. Spent some time as a safety diver for scuba classes before becoming a Certified PADI Dive Master in October 1988. I worked as a Dive Master for Scuba Sports and Sea Fan Scuba until coming to Blue Ocean Divers. After 10 Years as a Dive Master, “Mach 10” Mike talked me into becoming an Assistant Instructor (Thanks Mike!). | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Tim Ford |  | Mr. Stealth is as mysterious as his nickname. Tim has been certified since 1994 and really likes the piece and quite of the underwater world. He has almost 300 dives in his logbook and he is enjoying learning to take better still and video images underwater. | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Jim Estelle |  | WOW! I can't believe I really completed my Divemaster training. I'll be getting Mike my Bio real soon. . | | Click here to learn more... | | John Garvey |  | Coming soon. | | Click here to learn more... | | Roger Holmes |  | Scuba diving was always an interest for me. I’m currently a PADI Divemaster with Medic First Aid and D.A.N. Oxygen Provider certifications. I also hold Equipment and Drysuit Specialty certifications. I enjoy diving the St. Lawrence River and try to get to the beautiful waters of the Caribbean at least once a year. | | Click here to learn more... | | Ross Lazarek |  | Back in 2000 when my son, Steven, suggested we take diving lessons, I never imagined I would become a divemaster. In March of 2007 I realized my goal. | | Click here to learn more... | | Sarah Nutter |  | I never would have predicted that my name would be on listed under “Staff” on this website! For anyone out there who is considering learning to scuba dive, or advancing in their scuba diving certifications, but has “reasons” why they can’t/shouldn’t, find me – we’ll talk. I started out with a really long, organized, rational, responsible, logical list of why diving wasn’t for me… :-) | | Click here to learn more... | | Derek Packer |  | Five years ago my Dad (Tom R.) signed me up for a discover scuba. At the time I had no interest in scuba diving even though as a child I loved the water and was always taking some sort of swimming lesson... | | Click here to learn more... | | Mike Randolph |  | My interest in diving goes back to when I saw my first episode of “Sea Hunt” and found a new hero, Mike Nelson (“There was only one way to do it – under water!”). But it was not until I reached 50 that I was finally able to realize my childhood dream of becoming a SCUBA diver. Beyond the adventure of it though, diving, for me, is fundamentally another avenue for my life-long passion of exploring and learning new things (maybe That's why Blue Ocean Divers hung the “Analyzer” moniker on me). | | Click here to learn more... | | Guy Rogers |  | Hello, and welcome to the wondrous world of SCUBA diving. My experience began at about the age of twelve when my father took a SCUBA class as a P.E. requirement for college. One day while on excursion... | | Click here to learn more... |
| | Beth Rieselman |  | As the volunteer Publicity Director for Blue Ocean Divers, I plan to help inform the public of the great training programs and dive trips available here at Blue Ocean Divers.
While not a scuba diver, I love to snorkel. My husband, Tom... | | Click here to learn more... |
All "Staff" of Blue Ocean Divers LLC are self-insured contractors and are not directly employed by
Blue Ocean Divers LLC. |
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