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 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. He makes regular cave diving trips to Mexico, Florida and Europe and is actively involved in cave exploration in New Zealand. In addition to his GUE Instructor rating he also holds instructor ratings with TDI, DSAT, BSAC and PADI. As a passionate overhead environment diver he is one of the few instructors in NZ who can teach the Advanced Wreck and Cavern specialty courses as well as trimix classes.
He is currently working towards becoming a cave instructor and also a GUE Tech 1 instructor.
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 technical dives on the deep, dark wrecks of the Canadian Great Lakes. Andy holds instructor qualifications from TDI, DSAT and PADI and is qualified as a GUE Tech 1 diver. He wrote the Self Reliant Diver course and co-wrote the Advanced Wreck course, both of which are available exclusively to Tech Dive NZ.
He is currently working towards becoming a GUE Instructor.
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, including running a marine science project for 2 years on a remote pacific island. Mel hold instructor ratings with BSAC, PADI and the Handicapped Scuba Association. Mel is actively involved in cave exploration in NZ and is one of the few instructors in NZ who can teach cavern specialty courses.
She is currently working towards gaining both GUE Cave 2 and GUE Tech 2 ratings.
