AIDA ** Freedive Course at Chepstow

Teaching with Livvy at the NDAC and the amazing Lydney Lido
Dean Hill
Sarah Noble
Toby Chancellor-Weale
Gary McGrath
James Archer
Mandy Buckley
Andy Torbet
Feargus Callagy - all the way from Ireland

May 2006

Freedive Instructor Course in Croatia

Beautiful week on Krk Island
Domagoj
Ivica
Mario
Ante
Thanks for a fun week.. and the home caught and cooked fish!

December 2005

EFR

Bringing the freedivers back up to date...
Laura Storm
Mark Harris
Ross Matthews
Dave Morgan (thanks for doing Care for Children too!)
Emma Farrell
Lammy Dave

Spring and Summer 2005

Freedive Distinctive Specialties

Olivia Philip - SaltFree Newbie of the Year
Andy Scott
Ed MacFarlane
Carol Giles
Mandy Buckley - SaltFree Mermaid 2005
Jonathan Collier

November 2004

Divemaster and EFR

Russell Troake

Well done Russell! hours of fun in the classroom at PADI, the St Mary Redcliffe Pool and in the rain at Vobster. Good luck assisting with the in house training next year!

January 2004

Free Divers - Distinctive Specialty and AIDA **Free Diver

Mark Harris

Emergency First Response - Primary Care and AED

David King
David Morgan
Rodin O Hagan
Emma Farrell
Steve Gardner
Next time I trip over my monofin at Chepstow, I know where to come!

Dec 2003

Free Divers - Distinctive Specialty and AIDA ** Free Divers

Suzanne Pugh
Mark Wass

Advanced Free Divers - Distinctive Specialty and AIDA *** Free Divers

Suzanne Pugh
Mark Wass

AIDA * Freedive Trainer

Suzanne Pugh
wicked two weeks in the Red Sea - gorgeous location of Soma Bay - and some excellent freediving all round.

July 2003

Open Water Divers

Jenni Moore
Ricky Evans
Anna Weaver

Scuba Diver

Claire Curtis
The PADI Portland Posse - thanks to Fathom and Blues for Ribena and chocolate!

February 2003

Divemaster

Geraldine Palfreman

Deep Diver

Geraldine Palfreman, Brenda Palfreman

Underwater Naturalist

Geraldine Palfreman

Enriched Air Diver

James Robinson

Jez and Debbie on a safety stop

Advanced Open Water Divers

Jez Harris, Debbie Wheeler, Robin Tutty

Open Water Diver

Robin Tutty

Emergency First Responders
Robin Tutty, Hannah Way, Pete Edwards, Friedemann Gerhardt, Tony Nicolas

thanks to all the gang on Orchid for a fun week and to the divemaster candidates for keeping me up all night marking exams - PETE!!

January 2003

Assistant Instructor

Jason Hooper
Respect to you Jason for getting up early at the weekends to sit in the classroom with me. Its not easy presenting to one person and you did a cool job. Good luck with the IE! Hope you get to go and work somewhere gorgeous.

September 2002

Open Water Referrals

Justine and Ruth
Milos Biberovic
David, Diana, Jake and Hannah Gough
Respect to Milos for not dying with heat trying out his 5ml in the pool and to the Goughs for proving me wrong yet again that teaching families is a nightmare!

August 2002

Open Water Referrals

Judith and Rachel
Hope you two had a great time in Sharm and thanks for giving up your weekend!

June 2002

Instructor Candidates

Mary and Dave
Thanks for being the first people ever that I helped train to instructor, hope you enjoy it as much as I do and here's a DREADFUL picture of all of us, we were just out of the water or at least that's my excuse!

April 2002

Scuba Divers

Andre Bas - Netherlands
Hanneli Ribbers - Netherlands
Eleanor North - UK
Agi Hurst - UK

Open Water Divers

Sylvia Schoer - UK
Andy Tiplady - UK
Ryan Tiplady - UK
David Jenkinson - UK
Vicky Scott - UK
Daniela Panzavecchia - UK
Claudia Sales - UK
Robert Sales - UK
Thanks to Ryan and Andy for being the first family members brave enough to let me teach them! and for being good, reasonably..... underwater.

Advanced Open Water Divers

Ryan Tiplady - UK
Andy Tiplady - UK
Vicky Scott - UK
David Jenkinson - UK
Lillian Billing - UK
and a special round of applause to Ryan for working out that "boat dive" equals "doss dive" and getting out of doing any work whatsoever!

Nitrox Divers

Paul Mills - UK

Deep Divers

Paul Mills - UK
and a witness of the now famous "tennis ball" underwater escapade.... 40m was fab Paul but next time we do it WITHOUT tanks ok???

Rescue Divers

Paul Mills - UK
Charlie "le castor de la mer" Tutty - UK
la chasse continue... il est ou, le castor? cou cou! il est la!!

the badge collector, the sea beaver and the slightly inebriated instructor!

Medic First Aiders

Paul Mills - UK
Charlie Tutty - UK
Congrats to Paul on being my first ever Master Scuba Diver.

Doughnut Divers

Paul Mills - UK
ok its a Sam Specialty, not a PADI one but you get the badge! and while we are at it....

Poetry Divers

Stevie Mills - UK
for the esteemed work:
Where would I be?
Without my BCD?
At the bottom of the Deep Blue Sea....
thanks for a fun week Paul, Stevie and clan Tutty.. it goes down in history!

March 2002

Open Water Divers

Daljit Bhogal - UK
heroic attempts at kit removal and replacement on the roughest day of the year and seriously seasick.. a medal to go with your OW card Daljit! well done

Scuba Divers

Dianne Shun Wah - UK

Advanced Open Water Divers

Bas Verkooijen - Netherlands
one of my first ever students for his open water, and he still came back for more! well done and thanks for the lollipops!

February 2002

Open Water Divers

Lesley Heptinstall - UK
Jane Anderson - UK
Gerald Wright - the sky somewhere
Marc Reynders - Netherlands
Liz Spencer - UK
Thanks Jess.. for being a star, see you later in the year for Divemaster!

Advanced Open Water Divers

Marc Reynders - Netherlands
Gerald Wright - UK
Daniel Kemp - UK

Wreck Divers

Sophie Remy - France
Martin Kemp - UK

Nitrox Divers

Sophie Remy - France
Charlotte Whitmore - UK
Martin Kemp - UK

Drift Divers

Sophie Remy - France

Underwater Naturalist

Sophie Remy - France
Merci Sophie! ma premiere naturaliste!

Rescue Divers

Bruce McCulloch - UK

January 2002

Open Water Divers

Nick Rogers - UK
Amanda Maclean - UK
Caroline Wright - UK
Garreth Dent - UK
Martin Lindley - UK
Ian "Alan" Robinson - UK
Hans Christian Klasing - Germany
Jane Trelore - UK
thanks to all the above for working so hard on new years day and restoring my faith in humanity.. they know what I mean!!

Scuba Divers

Rebecca Hellen - UK
Sorry you couldn't finish Rebecca, hope the ear is better and thanks for braving it out!

Wreck Divers

Mark Harris - UK

Nitrox Divers

Mark Harris - UK
Thanks for coming back Mark, it was fun.

Rescue Divers

Darrell Jones - UK
Laura Jones - UK

Medic First Aid

Darrell Jones - UK
Laura Jones - UK
Thanks Darrell and Laura, and to Terry the unsung hero who let himself be dragged out of the water in such style. Hope to see you back for DM sometime.

December 2001

Open Water Divers

Martyn Short - UK
Sanjay Goel - UK
Simon Arnsby - UK
Ian Carey - Ireland
Siao Wearn Leong - Malaysia

Underwater Photographer

Neil Frew - UK

Medic First Aid

Lauren Hodder - Hurghada

Thanks to Lauren and Sue for fun with rubber gloves and waking up my day in the dive centre! and to Sanjay and Simon for badly needed doses of ice cream!

November 2001

Open Water Divers

Til Van Rens - Netherlands

Nitrox Divers

Teun Mulder - Netherlands

Wreck Divers

Colin Cochran - UK
Paul Mills - UK

Drift Divers

Colin Cochran - UK
Paul Mills - UK

Divemaster

Trevor Smallfield - UK

Thanks for your hard work Trevor, for the box carrying, devotion to physics and most of all for rescuing and washing my kit when I was out of action! Teun, thanks for sending me so many photographs of me asleep on the way to Abu Nuhas.. no I am not going to post them on the site! and to the lads, Colin and Paul for huge boxes of doughnuts.. better than an apple any day!

October 2001

Scuba Divers

Sylvia Guthrie - UK
Laura Guthrie - UK
Bruno Hotz - Switzerland
Michael Hotz - Switzerland
well done Sylvia and Bruno, especially for overcoming those "mask moments" and to Laura for jumping in the pool even after watering the flowers.... she knows what I mean!

Open Water Divers

Phillipe Spruyt - Belgium
Clasina Pieters - Netherlands
Yasser Kamel - Egypt
Kai Mueller - Germany
Marion Huber - Germany
Jan Berkhout - Netherlands
Emily Blay - UK
David Robinson - UK
Charlie Hodge - UK
Linda Hodge - UK
Ron Hodge - UK
Madeline Hodge - UK
Roelinde Post - Netherlands
Jos Bos - Netherlands
Mark Beland - UK
Fiona Beland - UK
Thanks to Phillipe and his partner Caroline for bearing with me on my first ever course taught in French - merci! and to Yasser for making me crack up laughing as he replaced his scuba unit "using the horse technique!". And the Hodge family, for being the first family group I ever taught who failed to have a "family row" during the course - or at least not that I noticed!!

Advanced Open Water Divers

Clasina Pieters - Netherlands
Ken Robinson - UK
Gilly Wilford - UK
Lucy Wilford - UK
Beatrice Wilford - UK
Mark Beland - UK
Fiona Beland - UK
apologies to the Wilford ladies for pointing out so many "interesting slugs!" and thanks to the Belands for another great BWRAF mnemonic, that new web page will be up soon!

September 2001

Open Water Divers

Chris Beckwith - UK
Paul Holloway - UK
David John Antill - Channel Islands
Lisa Murray - UK
Thanks to Chris for the new sign for lion fish - make your hands into pouncing paws and growl through your reg! grrrrrr....

Adventure Divers

Marlon Persaud - UK
Samuel Hayford - UK
Justin Smith - UK
and a mention too to Cynthia for looking so glam on the boat and putting us all to shame!

Advanced Open Water Divers

Chris Beckwith - UK
Paul Holloway - UK
Ben Holroyd - UK
Helen Vickerstaff - UK
Shakir Merali - UK
Hope the med exams go as smoothly as the course did, Helen.

Nitrox Divers

Olaf Bontes - Netherlands

PPB Divers

Ros Payne - UK
well done Ros, hula hooping with the best of them these days!!

August 2001

Open Water Divers

Pieter Jan de Zeeuw - Netherlands
Pascal Van Den Heuvel - Netherlands
Sjoerd Bosma - Netherlands
Matt Swift - UK
Bruno Dalbiez - UK
Caryn Vanstone - UK
Jonathan "JD" Davies - UK
Giles Thornton - UK
Jim Odoire - Uk
Thanks for lunch Sjoerd! and good on the "hunky guys" for not taking the piss out of me too much when they heard me referring to them as such! Hurghada badly needs a branch of Piggys sandwiches. Matt deserves a mention for being a superstar diver at such a young age, and with an evil sense of humour too!

Advanced Open Water Divers

Robert Beesley - UK
Patrick Simon - France
Rob Harmsen - Netherlands
Renate Roeterdink - Netherlands
Richard Brinkman - Netherlands
Jim Odoire - UK
Giles Thornton - UK
Jonathan "JD" Davies - UK

Helga sends greetings to Swedish Rob.... thanks for the doughnuts!

Nitrox Divers

Liu Wai Kwok - Hong Kong

Wreck Divers

Sean Sandoe - UK
Emma Sandoe - UK
Thanks for inadvertently tracking me down, a pleasure to teach you AOW in Cornwall and Wreck in the Red Sea, Sean. And Emma's wreck reel knitting goes down in history!





Thanks to everyone listed here and anyone I have forgotten for all your hard work. Apologies for hassling you to get on with knowledge reviews, put your kit together, do your homework or just listen to me for too long... you're not on holiday you know! Hope it was worth it and see you again some time.