Meet Our Great Team - we LOVE to dive.
Our Pro-Staff are experienced, patient, and want you to share our enjoyment in diving.
Your scuba instructor becomes your mentor, and your first dive buddy, as you learn about the underwater world.
Our philosophy focuses on diver comfort, development of basic skills, and progressing to advanced skills
providing the ability to go anywhere you could possibly imagine in scuba.
We love diving locally in Alberta, and believe diving in our prairie lakes gives a solid foundation to dive anywhere in the world.
Your scuba instructor becomes your mentor, and your first dive buddy, as you learn about the underwater world.
Our philosophy focuses on diver comfort, development of basic skills, and progressing to advanced skills
providing the ability to go anywhere you could possibly imagine in scuba.
We love diving locally in Alberta, and believe diving in our prairie lakes gives a solid foundation to dive anywhere in the world.
David Faas
Favourite UW creature: For the largest, my favourite is our whale shark encounters in the Philippines. The smallest is anemone fish - there are many different kinds.
Memorable dive trip: Having travelled to both The Arctic, Antarctic (apparently now bi-polar) and six continents (missing Africa) I would say they are all memorable. Travelling with great dive buddies makes all holidays excellent. Dive interests: Dives with a mission: explore a wreck, cave, reef, go deep on trimix; as long as I can take my camera. I like to come back with excellent images of the destination and my dive buddies and surface support. I like to share them and help everyone show off our time underwater. The goal with my pictures is to attract and excite everyone to check out the sub aquatic world that only a select few have experienced. Dive Advice: Learn, practice, repeat. Diving and swimming underwater is practice on buoyancy, breathing, mask clearing and situational awareness. Being comfortable and confident in the water will allow us to enjoy the underwater realm. Dive within your training; practice and don’t become complacent with your skills. Teaching since: Divemaster 1996, Instructor 2004, Inspiration Closed Circuit Rebreather instructor 2012, IDC Staff instructor 2014 Diving since: 1988. Full Cave 2000; OC Trimix 2002; CCR 2003. |
Connie Faas
Favourite UW creatures: sharks, mantas, seahorses: Actually, all UW critters amaze and fascinate me.
Memorable dive trips: Antarctica, Norway, Fiji, St. Lucia, BC wrecks, Australia, Mexico caves. Actually, every trip becomes memorable, as I love bonding with our dive customers who become friends, while experiencing new dive environments. Dive interests: My "happy place" is underwater. Any time I can get underwater it is a good day! I love being David's model and having the coolest photos to show off to my buddies. I then grab the monster camera to taking videos to share the wonders of the underwater world with everyone. I went to the 'dark side' and to everyone's surprise including mine, became rebreather certified in 2020. My rebreather 'Shelly' and I are having many cool adventures together. Dive Advice: ‘If you don’t go, you won’t know’ Teaching since: 2004 Diving since: Open water Jasper Alberta in May of 1988 – two weeks after the ice receded from Lac Beauvert. |
Mark Faas
Favourite UW creature: Baby Faas - not a diver yet, but will be soon!
Memorable dive trip: Philippines-diving the fascinating reefs of Tubbataha Dive interests: Rebreathers, local diving Dive Advice: Dive as much as you can! There are lots of places to dive in Alberta, each with their own interesting things. Teaching since: 2006 Diving since: 2000 Kevin Brown
Favourite UW creature: Knot worms at Clear Lake are so cool
Memorable dive trip: Any weekend at Clear Lake! Dive interests: Exploring Clear Lake. Dive Advice: You learn all you need at Clear Lake. |
Divemasters The glue that helps to make our courses run so smoothly. They are the best! Very experienced divers, who share their skills with our students and certified divers.
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Kevin Shortt
Favourite UW creature: Knot worms at Clear Lake are so cool
Memorable dive trip: Any weekend at Clear Lake! Dive interests: Exploring Clear Lake. Dive Advice: You learn all you need at Clear Lake. |
Peter Burgess
Favourite UW creature: Turtles. I love to see them on any dive,
Memorable dive trip: When we dove in Cozumel, Roatan, and Grand Cayman all in the same week. Matthew was 11 and it was his first big trip. Another was in the Mayan when Simon got certified and all four of us did a family dive. Dive interests: Working with new divers. Dive Advice: When diving in low vis, focus on the things that you can see and remember that you are not lost if you can find which way is up! Diving since:1998 |
Vance Rendle
Favourite UW creature: All types of aquatic life; but the favourite animal that I like to see is a Sea Turtle
Memorable dive trip: Family Day dive trip to BC when we dove the Xihuw Boeing 737 Dive interests: I'm interested all things diving related. You can never learn enough! Dive Advice: Slow down and see what there is to see Diving since: 2011 |
Leana
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Jim
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Isaac
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Dive Master Candidates - Our DM candidates are honing their instructional skills, and work with Instructors to provide the best in diver education!
Mark
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Ghislain - aka McGraw
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Dan
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Charlene
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Surface Support - Our keen surface support team helps to make every dive event flow smoothly – from fetching replacement gloves, an extra couple of pounds of lead, helping with drysuit zippers, and so much more.
Tina & Roxanne
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Cathy & Tammi
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Briana & Mark
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