Meet Our Professional Dive Team

   
Steven Millington
PADI MASTER INSTRUCTOR #178690
SDI INSTRUCTOR
EFR | CPR : FIRST AID : AED INSTRUCTOR
OWNER | L.A. SCUBA DIVING
GUE Fundamentals Diver
GUE TECH 1 Diver

Steve is a PADI & SDI 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 & Cenote Diving, with an ongoing interest in u/w photography and Technical Diving. He currently teaches in the Los Angeles area offering small group instruction or private one-on-one training. His favorite classes to teach are Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Underwater Navigation, Drysuit & Enriched Air Nitrox.

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 April 2008, Steve completed Technical Diver 1 training from Global Underwater Explorers GUE.com, which is recognized throughout the world as having the highest quality standards in diver education. Steve has certified over 375 divers at many levels, and looks forward to showing people the beauty of our oceans!  Hablamos un pocito Español!

   
Jeff Seckendorf
NAUI OPEN WATER INSTRUCTOR
CPR : FIRST AID/02 : AED INSTRUCTOR
TECH 1 DIR DIVER

Jeff learned to dive in 1990 in preparation for assisting on a series of underwater filmmaking workshops in the Caribbean. He went on to dive extensively in the warm waters around the Virgin Islands and the [very] cold waters of upstate New York lakes.

He is now a NAUI instructor and technical diver trained in mixed gas diving and decompression techniques. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2003, Jeff discovered the Southern California ocean and began exploring the Pacific coast. He loves to dive the deep areas of the Channel Islands and Monterey coastlline. He is also a diving volunteer with the Santa Monica Baykeepers working to rebuild our local kelp forests.

   
Stephen Mendel
PADI OPEN WATER INSTRUCTOR
NAUI, LA COUNTY, CMAS, YMCA INSTRUCTOR


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.

 
Alan M. Rowe
PADI DIVEMASTER #192902
EFR | CPR : FIRST AID : AED INSTRUCTOR
DIR - DIVE TEAM MEMBER

Alan is proud to be a PADI Professional and loves diving in Southern California all times of year. Alan enjoys Fish ID and U/W Photography, and his favorite dives are "critter dives" where there are lots of wildlife to see and places for them to hide. Being the son of a National Park Ranger, Alan has a special affinity for the Channel Islands National Park both above and below the waterline. Alan enjoys leading dives, working with students and conducting Scuba Review Programs.

Dana Kilgore
PADI DIVEMASTER #199790

Dana is a PADI Professional & has been a certified diver since 1982. Being a California native, he has explored the south coast waters from San Diego to Santa Barbara, and enjoys diving Catalina Island and the Channel Islands. He loves exploring new dive sites and recently had an amazing dive adventure around Boracay Island in the Philippines. When Dana’s not in the water, he works as a Lighting Designer and Director of Photography for the motion picture and television industry, so he naturally has a passion for underwater photography. Dana enjoys assisting with classes, conducting Scuba Review Programs, and working with students. Dana is thrilled to be a Divemaster with L.A. SCUBA DIVING!

Ash Anderson
PADI DIVEMASTER #232459

Ash began his diving career while living in Jamaica in 1994, and has since explored the reefs of the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, the caves of the Yucatan, and the beautiful marine and plant life of California and Hawaii. He enjoys teaching and learning about reef conservation and carries a fish conservation card from the National Audubon Society to ensure that when you eat that tuna sandwich after the dive, it's an albacore and not a bluefin.

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