Hey they all passed! August 2006
AIDA ** Freedive Course at Chepstow May 2006
Freedive Instructor Course in Croatia December 2005
EFR Spring and Summer 2005
Freedive Distinctive Specialties November 2004
Divemaster and EFR 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 Emergency First Response - Primary Care and AED Dec 2003
Free Divers - Distinctive Specialty and AIDA ** Free Divers Advanced Free Divers - Distinctive Specialty and AIDA *** Free Divers AIDA * Freedive Trainer July 2003
Open Water Divers Scuba Diver February 2003
Divemaster 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 January 2003
Assistant Instructor September 2002
Open Water Referrals August 2002
Open Water Referrals June 2002
Instructor Candidates April 2002
Scuba Divers Open Water Divers Advanced Open Water Divers Nitrox Divers Deep Divers Rescue Divers the badge collector, the sea beaver and the slightly inebriated instructor! Medic First Aiders Doughnut Divers Poetry Divers March 2002
Open Water Divers Scuba Divers Advanced Open Water Divers February 2002
Open Water Divers Advanced Open Water Divers Wreck Divers Nitrox Divers Drift Divers Underwater Naturalist Rescue Divers January 2002
Open Water Divers Scuba Divers Wreck Divers Nitrox Divers Rescue Divers Medic First Aid December 2001
Open Water Divers Underwater Photographer 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 Nitrox Divers Wreck Divers Drift Divers Divemaster October 2001
Scuba Divers Open Water Divers
Advanced Open Water Divers September 2001
Open Water Divers Adventure Divers
Advanced Open Water Divers
Nitrox Divers
PPB Divers August 2001
Open Water Divers
Advanced Open Water Divers
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
Beautiful week on Krk Island
Domagoj
Ivica
Mario
Ante
Thanks for a fun week.. and the home caught and cooked fish!
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
Olivia Philip - SaltFree Newbie of the Year
Andy Scott
Ed MacFarlane
Carol Giles
Mandy Buckley - SaltFree Mermaid 2005
Jonathan Collier
Russell Troake
Mark Harris
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!
Suzanne Pugh
Mark Wass
Suzanne Pugh
Mark Wass
Suzanne Pugh
wicked two weeks in the Red Sea - gorgeous location of Soma Bay - and some excellent freediving all round.
Jenni Moore
Ricky Evans
Anna Weaver
Claire Curtis
The PADI Portland Posse - thanks to Fathom and Blues for Ribena and chocolate!
Geraldine Palfreman
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!!
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.
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!
Judith and Rachel
Hope you two had a great time in Sharm and thanks for giving up your weekend!
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!
Andre Bas - Netherlands
Hanneli Ribbers - Netherlands
Eleanor North - UK
Agi Hurst - UK
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.
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!
Paul Mills - UK
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???
Paul Mills - UK
Charlie "le castor de la mer" Tutty - UK
la chasse continue... il est ou, le castor? cou cou! il est la!!
Paul Mills - UK
Charlie Tutty - UK
Congrats to Paul on being my first ever Master Scuba Diver.
Paul Mills - UK
ok its a Sam Specialty, not a PADI one but you get the badge! and while we are at it....
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!
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
Dianne Shun Wah - UK
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!
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!
Marc Reynders - Netherlands
Gerald Wright - UK
Daniel Kemp - UK
Sophie Remy - France
Martin Kemp - UK
Sophie Remy - France
Charlotte Whitmore - UK
Martin Kemp - UK
Sophie Remy - France
Sophie Remy - France
Merci Sophie! ma premiere naturaliste!
Bruce McCulloch - UK
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!!
Rebecca Hellen - UK
Sorry you couldn't finish Rebecca, hope the ear is better and thanks for braving it out!
Mark Harris - UK
Mark Harris - UK
Thanks for coming back Mark, it was fun.
Darrell Jones - UK
Laura Jones - UK
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.
Martyn Short - UK
Sanjay Goel - UK
Simon Arnsby - UK
Ian Carey - Ireland
Siao Wearn Leong - Malaysia
Neil Frew - UK
Til Van Rens - Netherlands
Teun Mulder - Netherlands
Colin Cochran - UK
Paul Mills - UK
Colin Cochran - UK
Paul Mills - UK
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!
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!
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!!
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!
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....
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!
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.
Olaf Bontes - Netherlands
Ros Payne - UK
well done Ros, hula hooping with the best of them these days!!
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!