Meet the Crew

Featured Crewmember:

Ross, , , Rainbow Reef Dive Center, Key Largo, Florida Keys image

Ross

The good ones create...the great ones steal...ask Ross and he will happily offer his teaching tricks ;)

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

Jim
Captain and Course Director
PADI Platinum Course Director
Lou H
Captain
PADI DiveMaster
Bob E
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Alison
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Joe OK
Captain
PADI Master Instructor
Daniel Ye
Captain
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Nikita Ma
Captain
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Greg St
Captain
PADI DiveMaster

Instructors

Jardin
Sr. Instructor
PADI Master Instructor
Adam N
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Jesus A
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
AJ Jergins
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Cristina
Master Instructor
PADI Master Instructor
Dina
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Eddie B
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
John D
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
ZackB
Intern/Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
ChrisBu
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Maddie C
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Jennida
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
BellaS
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
David
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Matt Le
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Jack Te
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Seanna
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Nate S
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Danielle C
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Lauren
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Paul N
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Andrew Sm
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Indy
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Anika S
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Mustufa
Instructor
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
Caitlyn Bo
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Jillian Jo
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Nick be
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Jo Ba
Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Brooke L
Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Gene Cl
Instructor
PADI Master Instructor

DiveMasters

Jesus
DiveMaster
PADI DiveMaster
Richard
Divemaster
PADI DiveMaster

Course Directors

Kell
Career Development Director
PADI Master Instructor
JoshCo
Course Director
PADI Platinum Course Director
Josh
Course Director
PADI Platinum Course Director

First Mate

Office Staff

Lew B
Office Staff/Instructor
PADI Master Instructor
RobH
Office Staff
PADI Rescue Diver
DougCl
Office Staff
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Monica
Assistant Manager
Andy
Office Associate
PADI Rescue Diver
Emily
Office Staff
PADI Rescue Diver
Reba A
Office Associate
PADI Rescue Diver
Beverlee S
Office Associate
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Cheryl H
Office Associate
PADI Rescue Diver
Gaelen
Office Associate
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
Ida C
Office Associate
PADI Rescue Diver

Store Staff

Jason C
Store Staff/Instructor
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Orlando C
Retail Expert/Instructor
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Corey W
Instructor
PADI Master Instructor

Support Staff

Olivia J
Intern
PADI DiveMaster
Stephen Ko
Intern
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Blake Sm
Intern
PADI Rescue Diver

Air Operations

Management

D.J.
a.k.a. Oz
PADI Master Instructor
Billy
General Manager
PADI Platinum Course Director
Carlos
Retail Store Manager
PADI Master Instructor
Fletch
Instructor Manager
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
John
Dive Center Manager
PADI Master Instructor
Ross
Director of Training
PADI Platinum Course Director

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Rainbow Reef Dive Center COVID-19 UPDATE: 01/20/2021 [ CLICK HERE ]

We want to thank all of the divers who visited us in 2020.

Since we reopened on 6/1/2020, we have been thrilled to take few thousand divers diving on over a thousand dive trips, as well as taught hundreds of students, from recreational to pro levels.

Over the 6 month window, we did have 4 of our crew members who ended up testing positive for covid-19. 3 of these occurred when they went out if town and one was brought home by their significant other who worked in the medical field. To the best of our knowledge, we did have a few customers contract the virus, most of which rode on a bus together for 12 hours to get to Key Largo.

No need for
social distancing
under water!

So of course this is not a scientific study, and indeed purely anecdotal evidence, but it sure seems to us like that it may in fact be pretty hard to catch or spread the Covid-19 while on scuba diving trips. Covid-19 just doesn’t seem to stand much of a chance out on the ocean, in the fresh air, in the blazing sun… and even less immersed in salt water!

Monroe County is 100% open. Of course everyone observes social distancing practices, but Hotels, Restaurants, Dive Centers and everything the Florida Keys has to offer is ready for you! Monroe County
still has a mandatory
mask mandate for
all residents and visitors. You don’t need a passport, but you do need a mask, and we don’t mean the diving kind! (although you’ll need one of those too!) Monroe County has also advised us that customers and crew need to wear masks on the boats while we load up, set up, ride to the reef, and pretty much all of the time except when we are getting ready to dive.

Here are just a few of the changes and procedures we implemented back on June 1st to keep our customers and crew safe and healthy:

Reducing the number of divers on each boat

Cleaning the boats and tanks between every trip

Crew wears masks

Temperature checks daily for crew

Temperature checks for all customers

Sign releases on your own device

Check in process as touch-less as possible

Hand sanitizers in all buildings

Rental gear is sanitized, dried, and rotated so it's only rented to 1 customer per day

Max of 4 in each recreational class

Boarding procedures to maximize social distancing

Gear up and water entry procedures to maximize social distancing

Fresh water gear rinse and no community rinse tanks

That is the current update in regards to Covid-19, Scuba Diving and visiting the Florida Keys. We continue to adapt and evolve how we do things as the situation unfolds and will update you as things move forward.

So give us a call, say hello on our social media, or send us an email. We are here, ready for you and can’t wait to go diving with you! Until then stay safe, stay healthy, and best of luck to you and your families during these strange times.