‘Lucky’ Louis Powell

NAUI #19365 – PADI-MSDT/DSAT #239155

Pacific Coast, Florida & the Caribbean

Louis grew up with Jacques Cousteau on television and salt from the Gulf of Mexico on his skin. He took his first breath on scuba in Corsica in 1986.

After receiving a degree in History and English from Florida State University, he taught high school and then turned to a career in business management. In 1997, he combined his love for teaching and the water by becoming a NAUI Scuba Instructor. Since then, Louis has taught recreational and technical scuba courses from Florida to the Pacific Northwest and around the Caribbean and managed stores on both coasts.

‘Squirt’ Jon Daane

PADI-Course Director #176603

Pacific Northwest

Jon earned his stripes as a PADI Instructor in Hawaii before returning home to Portland, Oregon where years of consistent quality instruction and a dedication to the sport of scuba diving earned him a reputation among his peers as an exceptional instructor. In 2008, Jon took over as General Manager of Seven Seas Scuba, a major scuba retailer and PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center in the Pacific Northwest.

‘Dano’ Dan Robertson

PADI-MSDT/DSAT #239266

Pacific Northwest

Dan was talked into completing his Open Water certification in the Pacific Northwest rather than in the tropics, and he was immediately hooked on cold water diving. Dan became a dive professional to gain a better understanding of diving and “how it all works”. He views his continuing education at the instructional level as a means to share his underwater passions with others. If asked why he loves to dive, he’ll have a variety of answers for you – from small and large critters alike, exploring big shipwrecks, riding drift currents, to the deep, dark challenges of Tec diving. And as he is fond of putting it, “Scuba is the most relaxed adventure sport there is!”

Capt. Jim Hammond

NAUI #51772

Maine & the Caribbean

Jim first learned to dive in 1980 while serving in the US Navy and before long he was an SSI Instructor. In 1987 he left the Navy for a career in Aviation, but twelve years later the sea was still calling so he moved aboard his sailboat, Serenity. And by 2002 Serenity Maritime was born, providing salvage and ships husbandry services in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Well ten winters living in a sailboat on the coast of Maine was enough, and in 2009 Jim left his career in aviation and set sail for SW Florida and to dedicate himself full-time to life on and under the water — summering in Maine, wintering ‘somewhere in the islands’.