Technical Instructors

Our highly trained and experienced instructors are always on hand through out your course. Having trained and dived together extensively, Jamie, Andy and Mel are committed to maintaining consistency across the range of our courses and are dedicated to ensuring that the quality of diver education provided is second to none.

Jamie Obern
	Jamie is a keen technical diver, with an avid interest in cave and wreck penetration. He is the only GUE instructor in New Zealand, and is GUE Cave 2 qualified and makes regular cave diving trips to Mexico and Florida. In addition, he is a TDI Instructor and a PADI IDC Staff Instructor, one of just a handful who can teach the PADI Cavern Diver specialty course.

Andy Connor
	Andy's diving interests mostly relate to technical wreck penetration beyond the daylight zone. He has dived extensively throughout New Zealand and overseas, and has a passion for the deep, dark wrecks of the Canadian Great Lakes. As well as being a TDI instructor, he is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor and he wrote the Self Reliant Diver course which is available exclusively to Tech Dive NZ. Andy is a member of GUE.

Mel Jeavons
	Mel is one of the most qualified female technical divers in New Zealand, being certified at both GUE Tech 1 and Cave 1 levels. Having been diving since a University student, Mel has dived extensively around the world. Mel is a instructor for the Handicapped Scuba Association and also a PADI IDC Staff Instructor. Like Jamie, she is one of the few Cavern instructors in New Zealand.