I started diving in 1989 with a try dive at Loughton swimming pool, then spent the next few years completing mainly holiday dives wherever I happened to be. My main passion at that time was Karate but after 15 years of fairly serious training and national level competitions (untold broken fingers and toes and 2 dislocated shoulders) I decided it was time to do something a little less painful that would allow me to broaden my horizons beyond the inside of the UK's sports centres.

So I became a diving instructor, so far I have dived and taught in the UK, Middle East, Caribbean, Thailand, Malaysia, Canary Islands, USA, and all over the Mediterranean. Since 1997 I have run and owned PADI 5 star dive centres in the UK and currently freelance as a PADI Course Director and Tech Instructor Trainer at  dive centres around the world. I'm very much into my technical diving and the opportunities it has opened for me, I love wrecks and all places dark.

For the future I'd like to spend more time diving than teaching. I think 10 years hard labour is enough for anyone!!

We're still awaiting Peters profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Peter, aka Pete the Tan, aka George Clooney learnt to dive somewhere extremely exotic. He was a committed warm water diver until booking onto one of Warren's UK Rescue Diver courses some time in 1999. After much cajoling and gentle micky taking Pete purchased a drysuit to go in his already bulging dive bag. Unfortunately Pete took the term "dry" too literally and we are sure the suit hasn't been anywhere even slightly damp for a few years now.

Pete is probably the most travelled (5* of course) instructor on the team. He has dived in many beautiful places around the world. He loves the Maldives with it's Manta Rays and Whale Sharks and is a "Manta Diver" specialty instructor. Pete can be found on pretty much all of our overseas trips and is always the first to buy a round (or 6).

On a serious note, as well as being an excellent instructor Pete is a very capable technical diver with masses of experience, he loves all aspects of diving and travel and is just about to launch himself into the world of rebreathers.

We're still awaiting Bill's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Warren met Bill as an delinquent teenager (Bill not Warren) in 1998 when he applied to train up to Divemaster on the Labour party's revolutionary, ground breaking attempt to get Britain working The New Deal - don't ask! To cut a long story short, Tony Blair paid for Billy's training and thank you very much. After a while it became apparent that training to be a PADI Divemaster in London probably wasn't going to increase Billy's employability and Bill had to fund the rest of his training himself.

Although quite mad - and I don't mean that in the typical dive centre website "we're all crazy because we wear silly hats and drink beer when we're diving" style, Bill actually has certificates to prove it - Billy is an excellent instructor and very busy diver. Like most of the team he is an ardent holidayer and UK diver.

Billy is also the team SMB Deployment Chief Instructor, his prowess with the inflating sausage is legendary.

We're still awaiting Steve's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Steve started diving in Thailand where he lived and worked as a Divemaster for 6 months on the famous diving island of Koh Tao. Having completed 100's of dives in Thailand Steve returned to the UK where he carried on his career with us and became an instructor in 2003. As well as Thailand and the UK Steve has worked as an instructor in southern Spain.

Steve, like Peter, loves to travel and can be found on most of our dive trips and is never far behind Pete when it comes to buying a round.

Steve plays a key role in our instructional team and brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm. Unfortunately he is rubbish at pool (not swimming pool but the pool you play with balls and a cue) and is a terrible loser.

We got involved in scuba after retiring from messing about on top of the water in sculling boats! After going through the initial training courses for a year we hooked up with Warren when Jim bumped into him at a Dive Shop and after 18months apprenticeship with him became PADI Instructors. After a further year of teaching in muddy lakes and pools, inland quarries and freezing UK waters we escaped to the Egyptian and Sudanese Red Sea for 2 years of warm water diving as Safari dive guides. We are PADI MSDT, Speciality Instructors in a whole host of disciplines, nitrox instructors, Jim is also a Draegar Dolphin Instructor and qualified Gas Blender Tish loves hanging around the Partner Goby burrows, watching the interaction of the resident gobies and their workaholic shrimp partners - or being surrounded by hundreds of Barracuda in the Blue catching glimpses of the Hammerheads of the plateaus. Jim excels in pottering along the reef walls, hopefully with the current, while spotting the camouflage fish - crocodile, scorpion, stone fish etc. - very effectively.

We're still awaiting David's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Dave learnt to dive with Warren in the late 90's, he is veteran of many a dive holiday and a keen UK diver. Dave is an accomplished technical diver and together with Warren and Julius has been to some very deep, dark places. Dave now dives an Inspiration Rebreather.

Dave likes his toys and always has the shiniest new kit. He was even picked up by a helicopter after one of our dives last year!!! Flash git!!!

We're still awaiting Geoff's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Like Warren, Geoff has a strong background in Karate and spent many years training with some of the worlds best. Warren and Geoff met one morning when Warren was sitting in the dive club van eating a sandwich and reading the newspaper, Geoff on his way to work saw the van with the learn to dive stickers on the side, stopped, ran across the road and frightened the life out of Warren by banging on the window and gesticulating wildly. Warren reluctantly wound down the window and Geoff explained that he had always wanted to learn to dive but had never had the chance, even after having lived on the Devon coast for  15 years!

And the rest is history, Geoff is now one of the clubs most active instructors and divers. He has been one of Warren's keenest students with a massive appetite for knowledge and put in more hours studying before his instructor exams than anyone we can remember.

Geoff is currently working towards his technical diving qualifications. If he ever offers you a game of Pool don't bet any money on it!!


Geoff and Becci are currently working in Thailand - click here to check out their website

We're still awaiting Becci's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Becci was brought along to the club by Geoff, her partner. After first declaring that she did not want to learn diving we persuaded her to take the plunge. She now loves it and will soon be taking her instructor exams.

She is also into fast motor bikes and out rides all of the male instructors (most of who have bikes), has a degree in engineering and is part time model.

She is the biggest Pool Shark (cue & balls) we know, obviously the sign of a misspent youth!!

Geoff and Becci are currently working in Thailand - click here to check out their website

We're still awaiting Lee's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

In the real world Lee is a chef, he has worked in some of London's top establishments with some of the best including Gordon Ramsey and Marco Pierre White.

As with his cooking Lee has a passion for diving, he trained with us from PADI Advanced level after taking his open water course in the Turks and Caicos islands, Lee gained his instructor certification in 2004 and has worked as a part time instructor for us ever since.

Lee has worked tirelessly with our students since becoming an instructor and is a very respected member of the team, He is always keen to experience new areas and types of diving and worked very hard to achieve his Trimix certification in record time.

We're still awaiting Rebecca's profile, so until it arrives we've made up our own.

Rebecca is manager of a famous London Spa, her background is in catering, she's an expert on fine wines and comes in very handy when deciding which plonk to choose when we're on a club night out.

Rebecca started diving with us in 2002 and went right through the system to become an instructor in 2005. She is now a very important part of our instructional team, is very calm and patient  in the water and excellent in the classroom.