Meet the Crew

Featured Crewmember:

Matthew Mo, , , Rainbow Reef Dive Center, Key Largo, Florida Keys image

Matthew Mo

The Rainbow Reef Dive Center crew is made up of a wide range of personalities, experience, backgrounds and expertise. It takes a team from behind the scenes, such as the office staff, gear tech, or dockmaster filling tanks to the foreground like the Captains, Instructors, Divemasters and Store staff to make your dive trips, classes, gear and everything around the dive center happen for you each day.

We lost count of how many times our customers have told us that we have quite a cast of colorful crew members at Rainbow Reef. So we decided to create this page so that our future customers could get to know our motley crew a little bit better before they arrived, and also so that after your visit, you can keep up with some of the new friends you made during your trip.

Captains

David Bu
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Dennis
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Chris Se
Captain & Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Tammy
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Matthew Lo
Captain
PADI DiveMaster
Matthew Mo
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Alex Ne
Captain
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer

Conservation Team

Jack Te
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Jo
Instructor
PADI Master Instructor
Elliott Di
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Caleb Ea
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Bridget H
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Todd Ne
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Christine
Instructor
PADI Master Instructor

Instructors

Jesus A
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Cristina
Instructor
PADI Master Instructor
Gage
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Maddie C
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Jeff Wo
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Leo An
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Ariel
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
John Ald
Instructor
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Blake Ei
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Oscar Paez
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Miguel
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Brandon Ru
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Tim Wh
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Jeremy Ev
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Grace Wi
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Pieter
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Casey Ur
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Heather B
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Tori
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Somer
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Nikita L
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Hayden
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Jeff Eb
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Maddie D
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Sergio Go
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor

Instructor Development

Jim
Course Director
PADI Platinum Course Director
Mustufa
Course Director
PADI Course Director

DiveMasters

Becky
Divemaster
PADI DiveMaster

Office Staff

Didier
Office Associate
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
January
Office Associate
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Carolyn S
Office Associate
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Rebecca E
Office Associate
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Brandon Rus
Office Associate
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Katie He
Assistant Retail Manager
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Emma V
Office Associate & Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor

Store Staff

Support Staff

Natassia
Office Staff and Divemaster
PADI DiveMaster
Carlos Jr
PADI DiveMaster
Jaxon
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Kailey Ko
Intern
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

Air Operations

Management

D.J.
a.k.a. Oz
PADI Master Instructor
Billy
General Manager
PADI Platinum Course Director
Kell
Assistant General Manager
PADI Master Instructor
Chad J
Retail Manager
PADI Platinum Course Director
Alex He
Instructor Manager
PADI Master Instructor

First Mate

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Advanced Open Water

Refine your diving skills and introduces you to advanced diving under the supervision of an instructor. Includes 5 dives, two of which must be deep and navigation dives... With three elective adventure dives that you choose! Includes PADI e-code (retail of $240 by itself)

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Advanced Open Water

Your diving adventures continue... Whether you have just been certified, or have logged lots of dives, this course will teach you new skills, improve old ones and build confidence and awareness in scuba diving.

Plan out your Advanced Open Water diving:

In total, there are five dives needed to complete your Advanced Open Water certification, but there are two required dives: Navigation and Deep Dive. Both will take your knowledge and enthusiasm to a whole new level.

Typically, we do not have you complete your Deep Dive the first day, and will use Navigation and one of your chosen elective dives to begin the course. The elective dives are listed below, you will choose a total of 3 to complete your training into the Advanced Open Water Certification level.
- Core Dive #1: Navigation
  
  Builds your skills and confidence navigating under water with your compass.
- Core Dive #2: Deep Dive
  
  Teaches you all about the effects and precautions you must take when diving more than 60 feet.
The elective dives are completely your choice, please select dives you are interested in from the lists below and add those 3 elective dives together with your 2 core dives.

That's all there is to it!

In just a couple of days, you'll be Advanced Open Water certified!
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Nitrox Upgrade

A great option that can be added to any dive trip or package. Breathing less nitrogen means you can enjoy longer dives and shorter surface intervals. Upgrade includes the PADI online class e-code (retail value $232 alone!), 2 Nitrox tanks, and dive computer rental.

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Nitrox (Enriched Air Diver)

The latest way to safely give you more time underwater is Enriched air. Better known as NITROX, this higher oxygen mix of diving gas can make you feel less fatigued and load less nitrogen while, in some cases, significantly increasing your bottom time.

The PADI Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba course.

Why? Because scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives. If staying down longer and getting back in the water sooner sounds appealing, then don’t hesitate to become an enriched air diver.

If you’re a PADI (Junior) Open Water Diver who is at least 12 years old, you can enroll in the Enriched Air Diver Specialty course.
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Avelo Certification

Imagine a scuba set that's half the weight of your current one, yet gives you more bottom time. Imagine that scuba could provide the freedom and streamlined experience of freediving. Includes Avelo rental gear and e-code (retail value $200) for the online course.

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Recreational Avelo Diver (RAD)

The latest way to safely give you more time underwater is Enriched air. Better known as NITROX, this higher oxygen mix of diving gas can make you feel less fatigued and load less nitrogen while, in some cases, significantly increasing your bottom time.

Our course teaches divers everything they need to know to dive the Avelo System.

Here's what's included:

Online theory session (1-2 hours)

Our course builds on concepts you are familiar with from your open water theory and expands on topics that are relevant to Avelo and apply to divers at any level.

When completed, choose any of our dive centers to complete your water session. From the moment you successfully complete the theory session, you will have 90 days to complete the in water component. You can extend the 90 day limit by retaking the quizzes to make sure you are still familiar with all Avelo concepts.

Will any of your divers be flying within 18hrs of any of their dives?

Are there any divers in your group who are under the age of 15 and/or who have a limited certification such as "PADI Scuba Diver"?

Terms and Conditions

When you book a dive with us, you agree to these terms and conditions:

We know that sometimes travel plans change or other circumstances arise. We will be happy to refund you 100% any time you give us at least 24hrs notice prior to the date of the trip that you will be unable to join us. If you are a no-show on the day of the trip, or fail to notify us within the 24hr window, we will be unable to refund you and it will result in 100% of the trip fees being due.

Criteria

In order to participate on our dive trips, all divers must meet these minimum requirements:

Must be a certified diver from a recognized certification agency
Must have been diving within the preceding 2 years or will be required to complete a refresher class prior to the scheduled trip
Dives deeper than 60f/18m require Advanced Open Water (or equivalent) certification or documented proof of diving experience to that depth
You understand that this dive trip reservation includes no instructional training, and these trips can not be applied to, or substituted for any recreational dive classes we offer

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