Scott’s life work has always been about adventure and safety.
His aviation career has included thousands of flying hours as a medevac helicopter pilot, agricultural and forestry aerial
application pilot, an offshore oil field pilot in the Gulf of Mexico, and an airplane and helicopter instructor. Today he
works as a senior helicopter mechanic for a medevac company in Texas. His love of photography led to seasonal work as
a pro photographer on a rodeo team roping circuit and for youth soccer tournaments.
He has been an avid snow and water skier, holds ocean sailing certifications, plays occasional golf and taught himself a
good amount of Russian. When not working or diving, he lives in Seven Points, Texas where he has just finished a
complete house remodel on his own.
Not one to sit still, Scott is ready to share his passion for diving with you, whether to help you achieve basic certification
or lead a trip of a lifetime for you and your friends.
I have been interested in scuba diving for a long time. It has always appealed to me as something I wanted to do. I spent most of my life in aviation, as a pilot and/or mechanic. With the flying restriction of scuba diving, I thought that diving and work wouldn’t go well together. So, I never really pursued diving. When I stopped flying, this gave me the opportunity to pursue the interest. I just didn’t. Life happens.
I earned my PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) open water certification in late 2018 at Athens (Texas) Scuba Park. It was cold and the visibility was about three feet. I was going on a sailing trip to the Bahamas and wanted to do some diving on the trip. So, after experiencing four cold open water dives with nothing to see, diving the blue hole in the Bahamas was incredible. Again, life happens, and I didn’t do any more diving until 2020. During 2019, after a lot of thinking and soul searching, I decided that diving was a huge passion and started pursuing it heavily. Then COVID hit. The only way I could continue to dive in 2020 was through private, specialty courses. I took
every course I could. I completed 10 specialty courses and got my advanced open water certification. Near the third quarter of 2020 classes started happening again (with COVID precautions in place). I started a Dive Master internship just before the dive season ended in 2020. In 2021 I got my PADI Master Scuba Diver certification and achieved my first PADI professional certification. I was now a
dive master and working weekends and loving it. I also completed several more PADI specialty courses and started taking an interest in technical diving (Tec Diving). In 2022, I got my first Tec diving certifications with TDI (Technical Diving International) and became a PADI Assistant Instructor. I started working at Athens Scuba Park any time they needed help. Watching people take their first breath
underwater, continued to instill the desire to become an open water instructor. I started looking into PADI IDC schools. January of 2023, I attended Utila Dive Center’s (Honduras) Instructor Development Course (IDC). The course was intense and very rewarding. After successfully completing the IDC and passing the instructors’ exam, I stayed several more weeks to take Master Scuba Diver Training courses, continue my diving education and dive anytime I could.
Being a PADI scuba instructor has been a great experience and opened a whole new world for me of interesting people
and places. I enjoy traveling to new places to dive. Honduras has been the most remote diving I have done. Cozumel is my favorite drift diving place so far and wreck diving in and around the Florida Keys is fantastic !I enjoy all types of diving but totally love technical, wreck, side-mount and Diver Propulsion Vehicle diving.
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