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.

David Faas

Favourite UW creature:  This is not easy I like them all. For the largest, my favourite would be our whale shark encounters in the Philippines - they are friendly and allowed for many photographs to be taken. For the smallest I pick the anemone fish - there are many different kinds and they are so cute.
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.  We have always travelled with good friends and divers making all holidays the trip to remember.
Dive interests:  I like 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. Anything we first do we must learn and should practice. Diving and swimming around 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:  Open water in the tropical waters of Jasper Alberta in May of 1988 – two weeks after the ice receded from Lac Beauvert. Full Cave 2000; OC Trimix  2002; CCR 2003. 
Covid dive goal: To convert Connie over to the dark side and teach her CCR. Keep diving when we are allowed and help develop procedures so we can still enjoy our sport safely.

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!
Dive Advice: ‘If you don’t go, you won’t know’
Teaching since: 2004
Diving since: 1988; when our oldest son was just a few weeks old!
Covid dive goal: To join the dark side, and become rebreather certified

Rick 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.
Covid dive goal:  Share the love of Clear Lake.

Mark Faas

Favourite UW creature: Baby Faas - not a diver yet, but will be soon! (May 31: from Grandma: note that baby is not even born yet!)
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
Covid dive goal: Find new dive sites close to home!

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.
Covid dive goal:  Share the love of 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.

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.
Covid dive goal:  Share the love of Clear Lake.

Peter Burgess

Favourite UW creature: Turtles.  I love to see them on any dive,
Memorable dive trip: On a family Caribbean Cruise we dove in Cozumel, Roatan, and Grand Cayman all in the same week.  Matthew was 11 and was recently certified so 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: Love to work 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
Covid dive goal: To go south as soon as we can!!

Vance Rendle

Favourite UW creature: All types of aquatic life; but the favourite animal that I would 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
Covid dive goal: To get back into the water and do more social distancing. 

Dive Master Candidates - Our DM candidates are honing their instructional skills, and work with Instructors to provide the best in diver education!

Dan

Charlene

Isaac

Leana

Jim

Mark

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

Briana & Mark