A little about me:
My family is from Costa Rica and I grew up in Miami (Hialeah, Kendall,
Miami Beach). I currently live in Palm Beach Gardens and work as an
Account Manager for Travelocity.com plus I have a part time job a
couple of nights at Jupiter Beach Resort. When I am not working, I am
out diving, kayaking or out on the local bike trails.
I started diving in 98 while going to college at FIU. I was pretty
active right from the start meeting people online and going diving. I
discovered beach diving and would do about 6 beach dives a week.
Usually an afternoon dive followed by a night dive, plus I would make
it out on boat and springs trips, too. It took me a year to become a
Divemaster and I spent another year with local clubs organizing dives
and working with classes (both in English and Spanish).
In 2000, when I showed up for an instructor course at Pro Dive (Ft.
Laud), I had the most experience out of all the other 23 candidates
and made it through the training pretty easily and got hired to be
part of their staff because they wanted a Spanish instructor. During
my 8 months there, every day I was either on the boat or teaching a
class until they figured out I knew computers and I did some admin
work in the office, too. I then got a job at Ginnie Springs and
later Dive Outpost, I moved up to North Florida for 2 years and did
plenty of cave training and diving. I continued to travel to south
Florida for classes or dive events.
The current chapter of my life started in 2002 when I met a pretty
girl that lived in Palm Beach Gardens and moved down here. I finished
up my degree at FAU, got a full time job and diving became very part
time. I also started the SFL-DIR : SFL-DIR club with a couple folks
that went cave diving with that also had GUE training.
I picked up my diving addiction again last August and have been in the
water almost every weekend, I completed a couple of courses last year
for E-DIVERS (edivers.org) and heard about scubaboard from a
couple of buddies/students.
I have just over 1,500 dives. My favorite type of diving is Cave
Diving followed closely by "Night" beach diving. I've trained just
over 160 students 70% of those have been AOW, Nitrox, Rescue and
Cavern. I am an independent PADI Instructor that works with plenty of
shops from Key Largo to West Palm Beach, plus a couple in north
florida, too.
You can see plenty of pics of diving and training that I have organized here.
1999-2002
Picasa Web Albums - edivers
2002-Present
Picasa Web Albums - SFL
I really am enjoying scubaboard.com and have been meaning to post a proper intro.
My family is from Costa Rica and I grew up in Miami (Hialeah, Kendall,
Miami Beach). I currently live in Palm Beach Gardens and work as an
Account Manager for Travelocity.com plus I have a part time job a
couple of nights at Jupiter Beach Resort. When I am not working, I am
out diving, kayaking or out on the local bike trails.
I started diving in 98 while going to college at FIU. I was pretty
active right from the start meeting people online and going diving. I
discovered beach diving and would do about 6 beach dives a week.
Usually an afternoon dive followed by a night dive, plus I would make
it out on boat and springs trips, too. It took me a year to become a
Divemaster and I spent another year with local clubs organizing dives
and working with classes (both in English and Spanish).
In 2000, when I showed up for an instructor course at Pro Dive (Ft.
Laud), I had the most experience out of all the other 23 candidates
and made it through the training pretty easily and got hired to be
part of their staff because they wanted a Spanish instructor. During
my 8 months there, every day I was either on the boat or teaching a
class until they figured out I knew computers and I did some admin
work in the office, too. I then got a job at Ginnie Springs and
later Dive Outpost, I moved up to North Florida for 2 years and did
plenty of cave training and diving. I continued to travel to south
Florida for classes or dive events.
The current chapter of my life started in 2002 when I met a pretty
girl that lived in Palm Beach Gardens and moved down here. I finished
up my degree at FAU, got a full time job and diving became very part
time. I also started the SFL-DIR : SFL-DIR club with a couple folks
that went cave diving with that also had GUE training.
I picked up my diving addiction again last August and have been in the
water almost every weekend, I completed a couple of courses last year
for E-DIVERS (edivers.org) and heard about scubaboard from a
couple of buddies/students.
I have just over 1,500 dives. My favorite type of diving is Cave
Diving followed closely by "Night" beach diving. I've trained just
over 160 students 70% of those have been AOW, Nitrox, Rescue and
Cavern. I am an independent PADI Instructor that works with plenty of
shops from Key Largo to West Palm Beach, plus a couple in north
florida, too.
You can see plenty of pics of diving and training that I have organized here.
1999-2002
Picasa Web Albums - edivers
2002-Present
Picasa Web Albums - SFL
I really am enjoying scubaboard.com and have been meaning to post a proper intro.
