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British husband and wife team Stephen and Shirley Smith, run Scuba Steve's Diving. We are both PADI Instructors passionate about diving and about "simply beautiful" St. Lucia. To provide our guests with top quality service, we have a hand picked team of highly qualified professionals and between us, we have nearly 50 years diving experience and have made over 6000 dives in St. Lucia. We are all patient, careful Instructors used to dealing with the concerns of nervous first time divers. Your comfort and safety come right at the top of our list of priorities. You WILL be fine and we WILL LOOK AFTER YOU, so all you need to do, is put your faith in our training and experience and get prepared to have a serious amount of FUN! |
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Stephen SmithI am 50 years old and an ex IT Consultant now turned full time diver!. I am Managing Director of Scuba Steve's Diving, but my real job is going diving!. I am a PADI IDC Staff Instructor (IDCS), Specialty Instructor, EFR Instructor and DSAT Gas Blender/Trimix Blender Instructor and I am currently working towards my PADI Master Instructor rating. I did a resort course whilst on holiday in Bali over 19 years ago and instantly got bitten by the diving bug. I still vividly remember the thrill of my first open water dive and this made me want to share this fabulous sport with everybody I can. I love to dive and still get a kick from seeing new divers returning from their first open water dive full of wonder at what they have just seen. I have dived and taught in the UK (Stoney Cove and Gildenburgh Water!!!), Europe, Indonesia, Jamaica, Dominica and of course St. Lucia. When I am not in the water diving or teaching, I can be found in the dive centre updating our website or mixing "happy gas" (Nitrox). |
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Shirley Smith | Shirley SmithMy wife Shirley, Operations Director of Scuba Steve's Diving, got fed up being left alone whilst I went diving when we were on holiday, so she took the plunge (pun intended!) and got PADI certified. This led to her quickly getting the diving bug when she realised what I had been raving on about for all those years, and rapidly moving up the PADI ladder to become an Instructor. Shirley is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) and Speciality Instructor. Shirley worked as a Primary School Head Teacher (Principal) for 15 years and this gives her a unique rapport with children. If you would like your children to learn to dive or snorkel, Shirley is our expert, and will introduce your children to the underwater world via PADI's Bubblemaker, SEAL Team and Junior Open Water programmes which were designed specially for children. When not in the water, Shirley looks after our clients by handling bookings, driving clients around in our air-conditioned mini-bus and trying to encourage the rest of us to behave like the adults that we are supposed to be! (Our excuse is that we just love to have fun!). |
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Timothy BlackmanTim Blackman is 35 years old and married. Tim is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor (IDCS), Specialty Instructor, NAUI Open Water Instructor, licensed Boat Captain and is also our Senior Instructor and Dive Centre Manager. Tim is responsible for organising the daily diving activities and for making sure that service standards are kept high and that everybody has a safe, fun and enjoyable diving experience. Tim has been diving for over 20 years and has been a dive professional for 12 years. He has an enormous amount of experience teaching beginners and leading certified divers around all the best dive sites in St. Lucia. He is a very patient Instructor with an excellent sense of humour. When Tim is around, you are sure to have a great time. When he is not in the water or cracking jokes around the Dive Center, Tim helps to maintain all our diving equipment making sure that it is kept in tip-top condition, ready for you to use when you come diving with Scuba Steve's Diving. |
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Al Martyr | Allencius MartyrAl is 21 years old, single and being the youngest member of the team is the baby of the Scuba Steve's Diving family. Actually Al was our original Boat Captain back in 2006 before he left to take the opportunity to visit Canada to work in a Dive Center where he did some dry suit dives, tec dives and even Ice diving (must be mad!), before re-joining us in June 2007. Al is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) and is currently working towards his Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating. He is also a licensed Boat Captain. Al has been a dive professional for about 6 years and has worked with several local dive operations as a Dive Master, Assistant Instructor and Boat Captain. He is a keen underwater photographer and has taken many of the photos used on this web site. Al is great fun on the dive boat and his favourite trick is throwing Steve in the water or pouring ice cold water down the back of his Wetsuit! |
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Ricardo TheobaldsRicardo, aka FM Theo, is 46 years old, married and is our Licensed Boat Captain. He is an Advanced Open Water diver and is progressing up the PADI ladder and working towards the goal of being a Divemaster. In addition to his Boat Captains qualifications, Theo also has Emergency First Response and Oxygen Administrator certifications and being a diver himself, understands the needs of divers and is able to assist our guests with their equipment setup and tank changes etc. Theo is an excellent Boat Captain and always puts the comfort and safety of his passengers at the top of his list of priorities. During your trips with us, you will soon see why Theo has earned the nickname FM Theo, as he loves to give a running commentary on the sites during our trips to and from the Dive Sites. |
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