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LA's Finest PADI SCUBA Instructors and PADI Divemasters
Meet Our Professional Dive Team
Steven
Millington
PADI
MASTER INSTRUCTOR #178690
GUE INSTRUCTOR
Manager | L.A. SCUBA DIVING, LLC
Steve
is a PADI & GUE Professional & has been a certified
diver since 1996. He has traveled extensively throughout
the Caribbean & Mexico, visiting remote locations
such as Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos Islands. Steve's
favorite dives are deep wall dives with an ongoing
interest in u/w photography and Technical Diving.
He currently teaches in Los Angeles offering small
group instruction or private one-on-one training.
His favorite classes to teach are Open Water, Nitrox,
Drysuit, GUE Primers & GUE Fundamentals.
As of May 2007 Steve earned the rating of MASTER
INSTRUCTOR. He enjoys helping other dive Professionals
earn their Instructor ratings - ultimately to continue
the love of our sport.
As of Nov 2009, Steve received his Instructor rating
from Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
,
which is recognized throughout the world as having
the highest quality training standards in diver
education. Steve has certified over 700 divers at
many levels, and looks forward to showing people
the beauty of our oceans!
Stephen Mendel
PADI
OPEN WATER INSTRUCTOR
NAUI, LA COUNTY, CMAS, YMCA INSTRUCTOR
GUE Fundamentals Diver
Stephen began diving in fresh water lakes and rivers
in Quebec and upstate New York in 1976. He began
his scuba teaching career when he endured the grueling
14 week program of the Los Angeles County Underwater
Instructor’s Certification Course, truly boot camp
for scuba instructors. He followed that with instructor
certifications with NAUI, PADI, YMCA, CMAS (long
French acronym which loosely translates as World
Underwater Federation) and the Handicapped Scuba
Association of America.
Stephen has traveled
to the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Belize, Cozumel
and Pacific Mexico, British Columbia, Ontario and
Quebec in Canada, the Florida Keys and Palm Beach
area, Hawaii, Vermont and New York in the U.S. and
Greece. Stephen teaches all courses from Open Water,
Advanced, Rescue, Divemaster through Assistant Instructor.
Specialties include Enriched Air, Dry Suit, Deep
Diving and others.
Dwight Hutchinson
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
GUE FUNDAMENTALS DIVER
Dwight is a Certified
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer who became certified
with L.A. SCUBA DIVING after years of underwater
video and photography in places like Palm Beach,
Maui, and St. Thomas, USVI. Unsatisfactory surface
film conditions led to him taking the PADI Discover
Scuba course at Lahiana, Maui and his world changed
that day...running face to face with a huge Green
Sea Turtle.
Today Dwight dives frequently off Anacapa and Santa
Cruz Islands, and around Southern California. The
lava caves of Lanai at night are a particular favorite
of his as are the wrecks of St. Maarten. His next
dive trip is the Canary Islands, off of the west
coast of Africa this Fall.
Dwight is qualified to teach Open Water, Advanced,
Rescue, and Divemaster as well as the Digital Underwater
Photography, Drysuit, Deep, Enriched Air, Night,
Search and Recovery, Underwater Navigation, and
Wreck Specialties. He especially enjoys being able
to introduce new divers to the wonders of the underwater
world.
Steve Guerro
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Steve has been a certified
diver since 1991 and earned his instructor rating
in 2003. He has trained an extensive cross section
of people from various backgrounds, including Producers,
stuntmen, actors, attorneys, physicians, Navy Rescue
divers, law enforcement, commercial divers, business
executives and various crew members in the film
industry at all levels of scuba diving certifications.
Steve is qualified to teach over 25 different PADI,
DAN and SSI certifications as well as the Emergency
First Response certification and has taught scuba
classes in California, Texas, New Mexico, Florida,
Idaho, Mexico and Honduras.
Disney Samutsakorn
PADI INSTRUCTOR
GUE FUNDAMENTALS DIVER
Disney
became interested in SCUBA from salt water fish
tanks and snorkeling in Thailand. He started with
Discover SCUBA in July 2007 and earned his Open
Water Diver Certification in March 2008 w/L.A. SCUBA
DIVING. His Favorite dives are Monterey, Catalina
Island, Anacapa Islands, and local beaches. He's
looking forward to diving from a liveaboard off
the coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea in February
2009, and plans to dive the Red Sea and Great Barrier
Reef one day.
Kyle
Miller
PADI INSTRUCTOR
Kyle
began diving in 2007 in Andavadoaka, Madagascar.
Working for three months as a research volunteer
in charge of mapping coral reef systems in the area,
Kyle quickly advanced his diving career and became
fascinated with the underwater world. Since Madagascar
Kyle has dived the some of the best diving destinations
on the planet, including the Red Sea in Egypt, Sulawesi
in Indonesia, and the Adriatic Sea off Croatia.
Kyle's favorite dives are wrecks, walls, and coral
gardens. Kyle is passionate about conservation both
above and below the surface, and when he is not
underwater he spends his time traveling and working
for international nonprofit organizations. Eager
to take his skills to the next level, Kyle plans
to get involved with
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE). Kyle hopes
to eventually teach diving internationally, either
in the Red Sea or in Latin America.
He is excited to be a part of the LA SCUBA
DIVING team and looks forward to further
exploring the Southern California coastline.
Matt
Chamberlin
PADI DIVEMASTER
Matt
is a Certified PADI Divemaster who became certified
in the cold waters of Michigan in 1984 after a trip
to Hawaii where he fell in love with the underwater
world. He's traveled to the Great Barrier Reef and
dove Hawaii many times naming Cathedrals off the
back side of Lanai as his favorite spot. He also
loves the dives off Farnsworth Banks for it's brilliant
colors and Catalina for it's abundant sea life,
but his ultimate dive trip would be to Truk Lagoon
to dive the World War II shipwrecks.
Falk Hentschel
PADI DIVEMASTER
Falk
is a certified PADI Divemaster and started diving
in 2002. Some of his favorite dives have been in
the Maledives, Australia and Belize. Another one
of his favorite spots are the local dives in his
home in Los Angeles. From beach diving to the clear
waters of Catalina. One of his dream destinations
are the Philippines and Palau.
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