MEET OUR TEAM

  • BRIAN RICKMAN

    COURSE DIRECTOR

    First Certified: 2008
    Special Interest: Cylinder maintenance and safety.
    My Why: Developing safer and stronger scuba professionals

  • ED DOSS

    PRODUCT MANAGER & INSTRUCTOR

    First Certified: 1993
    Special Interest: Wall and Drift Diving, Macro marine life and corals
    My Why: The opportunity to explore different countries/cultures, oceans/seas above and below the water.

  • EMILY KEY

    TRAVEL MANAGER IATA & INSTRUCTOR

    First Certified: 1982
    Special Interest: Travel, Micro/Macro Photography. Teaching women and kids to be safe independent divers.
    My Why: Sharing a lifetime of being in/on the water with others.

  • CHELSEA DOWTY

    STUDENT COORDINATOR & INSTRUCTOR

    First Certified: 2003
    Special Interest: Finding the zen in each dive and finding what each site has to offer.
    My Why: Amazing to help other’s experience all that the ocean has to offer and find how scuba can enhance each person’s life!

  • ERIC BUCKLEY

    TEAM MEMBER, INSTRUCTOR & GEAR TECH

    First Certified: 2021
    Special Interest: Deep diving
    My Why: I love sharing my education and experience with others.

  • ANNA SQUIBB

    TEAM MEMBER & INSTRUCTOR

    First Certified: 2004
    Special Interest: Night diving, reef formations and zen moments underwater
    My Why: I like sharing the passion and seeing the excitement in new divers

  • BRIAN VIA

    TEAM MEMBER & INSTRUCTOR

    First Certified: 2016
    Special Interest: Loves the zen of breathing underwater and feeling weightlessness, like flying!
    My Why: I enjoy helping people who share a love of diving.

  • CONRAD RUCKER

    COURSE DIRECTOR & GEAR TECH

    First Certified: 1978
    Special Interest: Deep diving, Underwater Photography
    My Why: Passing the joy and magic of diving to others

  • MATTHEW CRAWFORD

    COURSE DIRECTOR

    First Certified: 2010
    Special Interest: Deep, Wreck, Tech
    My Why: I teach to enable people to achieve their underwater dreams.

  • BILLY KLINE

    INSTRUCTOR

    First Certified: 2009
    Special Interest: Anything diving, especially deep by a wall!

  • JIM MCALISTER

    GEAR TECH

    First Certified: 1969
    Special Interest: Tech and Cave diving, Working dives
    My Why: I love working with my hands and getting a great satisfaction out of fixing stuff.

  • KIPPER

    TEAM MEMBER

    Special Interest: Greeting Visitors

Our Team in Action

HOW YOU CAN GET TO KNOW US

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OUR RETAIL SHOP in woodstock

Shop top-of-the-line gear, rent equipment, and get your gear serviced at our location in Woodstock, Georgia.

Kraken springs: OUR OPEN-WATER FACILITY

We’re the only dive shop in Georgia with our very own open-water facility — just 45 minutes from Atlanta.