Meet Our Professional Dive Team
Steven
Millington
PADI
MASTER INSTRUCTOR #178690
EFR | CPR : FIRST AID : AED INSTRUCTOR
OWNER | L.A. SCUBA DIVING
GUE TECH 1 Diver
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 & 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 training standards in diver
education. Steve has certified over 550 divers at
many levels, and looks forward to showing people
the beauty of our oceans!


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 start his Instructor Development Course in the
fall and to get involved with Global Underwater
Explorers (GUE.com).
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.

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.
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.


Matt
Chamberlin
PADI DIVEMASTER
GUE DIVER
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.


Disney Samutsakorn
PADI DIVEMASTER
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.
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Chris Gonzales
PADI DIVEMASTER CANDIDATE

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