Mission Statement: Diver Education

Our mission is to provide the general diving public and professional level divers with the highest quality and level of training available.

Our goal is to fill the gaps and provide training that your local shop and instructors do not provide. Our preference is to work with your local dive shop. If your shop or instructor does not offer a class listed on our training page, then please contact us.

Kevin Davenport

Kevin is a PADI Course Director, a DAN Instructor Trainer & an EFR Instructor Trainer. Kevin was certified with his wife in 1990; during a snow shower at a local lake in Kentucky. In 1995, he traveled to Texas to attend his IDC under Ralph Erickson, and then Florida to attend his IE to become a PADI instructor. Kevin is always looking to improve his knowledge and skill as an instructor and diver. Kevin has dove all over the US, the Caribbean, Mexico and even Germany. His favorite dives are the caves in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, and the deep wreck off Miami Shores, Florida.

Derek Jones

Derek became certified in 1989. The TV show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, inspired his desire to dive. It was in 1995 he met Kevin Davenport at a local dive shop and decided to become a Dive Master. Derek was a Dive Master for 2 years before he went through his IDC in KY and the IE in Atlanta, GA. He loves to share his diving knowledge with students in order to make their diving experience more enjoyable. Always the student, Derek continues his diving education and holds certifications with PADI, TDI, NSS-CDS and ANDI. Derek's favorite dives are wrecks and caverns. He currently lives and trains in Germany.

Jean-Francois (JF) Huard

PADI MSDT #240309

EFR Instructor #240309

DAN Instructor #13765

JF has been diving for since summer 2007 and worked his way from Open Water to Instructor with Sterling Silver Scuba. He holds PADI, DAN, TDI, SDI, NSS-CDS, NACD, PSAI and GUE certifications. He is a big advocate of safe diving practice, including diving within one’s own level of training and continually working toward mastery of diving skills. Diving offers a lot’s of elements that he truly enjoys: technical equipment, continuing education, travel, photography, and it is a sport that can be practiced as a family... JF especially enjoys cave diving, deep wrecks, and loves drift diving in Cozumel with his family!