• THE TEAM

    Our professional team
    exceed normal
    PADI standards

  • THE TEAM

    Our professional team
    exceed normal
    PADI standards

DIVECREW HAS MORE ADAPTIVE SENIOR INSTUCTORS THAN ANY OTHER UK DIVE CENTRE

DIVECREW HAS MORE ADAPTIVE SENIOR INSTUCTORS THAN ANY OTHER UK DIVE CENTRE

Our professional team exceed the normal standards for in-water instruction. Divecrew believe in having the very best professionals because, well, you deserve it. Our team are also Child Safe Guarding Certified, Adult Safe Guarding Certified and NVQ Level 2 Mental Health Qualified.  Able to provide services to the very nervous and or mentally physically challenged, fully insured and enhanced DBS licensed.

Sue Coffey, Co-Owner

Sue is the owner of Divecrew with her husband, Martin. They have owned Divecrew since 2012. Sue is a PADI Staff Instructor, Deptherapy MSDT and SSI Instructor. BSAC Instructor.

Martin Weddell, Co-Owner

 Martin AKA SHARK BITE owns Divecrew with his wife, Sue. He is a PADI Elite Master Instructor. SSI Gold Master Instructor. Instructor Trainer for Deptherapy. Deputy Programme Director for Deptherapy. BSAC Instructor.

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Steve Bond (Stebe), SI

Steve is a PADI Elite Staff instructor, SSI DM Instructor and BSAC Instructor. Steve often takes the lead on our schools programmes including overseas teaching trips. He is regularly found in the dive centre helping out in the office, if you wish to befriend him just make a cup of tea and give him plenty of biscuits (or cake).

Dale Spree Course Director

Divecrew are pleased to have Dale as our Course Director, one of the most respected and experienced Course Directors in the UK. Dale has a vast experience of recreational and technical diving. Her background covers everything you can think of diving wise including owning a dive centre and operating dive boats.

Terry Sands (Big T), MI

Terry has been diving since 2001, became a PADI Divemaster in 2004, a PADI Instructor in 2005 and a Master Instructor in 2011, Terry is also a fully qualified technician,

Sean Martin, Instructor

Sean started diving in 2014 and qualified as a Divemaster in 2018 and has also worked with the Deptherapy charity. Sean is an OWSI Instructor and is passionate about technical diving and can often be seen in his twinset!

Patrick Wadsworth, Instructor

Patrick has been diving since 2007 and is a PADI Open Water Instructor. Apart from diving, he enjoys running, cycling and being outside.

Shehab Alderazi (Shabby), AI

Shehab has been diving since 2017. Diving in the Red Sea, Arbian Gulf and the UK. Worked as a public relations manager with Diver Vision in Bahrain.

Stuart Green, AI

Stuart has been diving since 2009 and is PADI Assistant Instructor, Deptherapy Adaptive Assistant Instructor and an accomplished underwater photograph.

Roger Coop DM

Roger has been a Divemaster with us for many years and is now our Trainee Divemaster Mentor. Roger likes to keep active in his retirement and when he is not diving he is usually out on his bike on adventures.

Zoe McBride, DM

Zoe has been diving for a number of years and is a PADI Divemaster. She loves doing all kinds of activities and rarely stops adventuring, she jumps from country to country and lives life the fullest!

Beth Leversuch, Instructor

Beth started scuba diving when she was 17 for a trip away with the army cadets and just fell in love with the ocean. When she went travelling in 2019, she spent 4 weeks at a marine conservation site in Nosy Be, Madagascar. Once she was back in the UK she knew she needed to prioritise scuba diving again and has since become a Divemaster going on to Instructor!

Richie Collins (Papa C), Instructor

Richie has recently become a Divemaster with us and is well on his way to Instrcutor. He can often be seen in the Dive Centre always helping out and diving as much as he can. Richie may look tough due to his rugby background, but he is a big softie who loves to make people smile!

Mark Jones (Jonesy), DM

Mark got qualified in 2002 and was a warm water holiday diver until he found Divecrew in 2021. Now he enjoys UK diving in quarries and coastal waters and loves being part of the Divecrew team and being part of new divers journey into Scuba diving. Outside of diving, activities include mountain biking and cruising down the highway on his Harley. His ambition is to dive allover the world

Melvin Marks, DM

Mel is one of our long standing Divecrew members and has now gone on to complete his Divemaster training. He is very lovely and can be seen running around assiting our Instructors on their courses, not to mention he is quite tall so can always be spotted in our big groups!

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Josh Johnson, DM

Josh completed his Advanced training with us and went on to complete his Divemaster in Thailand. He has now come back to join us for a bit as one of the Team, before he heads back out to Thailand to work as a diving professional. He is very friendly and very helpful with whatever the intructors need assistance with.

Ian Grant, DM

Ian completed his PADI Open Water in 2005, PADI Master Scuba Diver in 2009, IANTD Advanced Recreational Trimix Diver in 2012, Achieving his PADI Divemaster Course in 2023 and working with the Divecrew Professional Team.

Kim Von Arx, DM

Kim has recently joined us as a Divemaster and has been expanding his diving experience by exploring the technical side of diving.

Alan Sturgess, DM

Alan has been diving since 2002 . Qualified with Divecrew in 2004. He has been a Divemaster since 2009 and enjoys seeing his try-diver students through to passing their open water. Alan retired (early) which allows him to help teach anyone who wants midweek courses hint and Tips.

Sabrina Artus, DM

Sabrina learnt to dive whilst on holiday in Cyprus back in 2008. She is currently a Divemaster and Scubapro technician

Matthew Harwood, DM

Matthew has been diving since 2013 and was trained by Divecrew. He is a marine conservationist and has worked as a Marine Park Ranger and as a Marine Program Assistant on the Isle of Arran in Scotland.

Graham (Grebham) Bellis, TDM

Graham is one of our Trainee Divemasters who always brings smiles and hugs to the dive centre! He is a bundle of morale and is on his way to becoming a PADI Divemaster

Tony Wood (Dark Donkey) – Instructor

Tony has been a ‘holiday diver’ for 12 years after qualifying in 2012. Wanting to improve his skills and dive far more frequently, he completed his dry suit and rescue diver course. He is now almost a Divemaster with the goal to become an instructor after. Tony runs his own business as a financial adviser and plays drums in three bands, as well as learning French, playing 5 a side football and walking one of 6 ‘loan dogs’!

Adam Brummitt-Brown – TDM

Adam is one of our newest trainee divemasters and if he isn’t working he’ll either be in the water or walking his lovely little Daschund Cody.

Scuba Dog Coral

Coral is an all time favourite in the dive centre.

Scuba Dog Finn

Son of Coral, you would never belive it! Often seen bouncing around in the dive centre. A true water dog.

‘A genuine 5 Star dive centre’ A quote from a PADI Senior Executive.

Our professional team exceed the normal PADI standards for in-water instruction. Divecrew believe in having the very best professionals because, well, you deserve it. Not all PADI centres are the same. PADI issue 5 stars to all dive centres, it is PADI marketing. Divecrew are transparent. Divecrew exceeds the PADI 5 Star rating. Divecrew are the UK’s only Gold Star Dive Centre. Divecrew are not only main stream professional scuba education providers but most of the professional team are also adaptive instructors. Our Adaptive Team is led by instructors with over a decade of real experience working with divers that have suffered life changing injuries. Physical and mental injuries. We teach young British soldiers who have suffered life changing injuries serving the country in Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts to scuba dive. We specialise in getting near miss divers back in the water and confident again.  Divers with ADHD and Autism. Divecrew is a PADI Approved Youth Training Facility, a schools specialist. Our team are also Child Safe Guarding Certified, Adult Safe Guarding Certified and NVQ Level 2 Mental Health Qualified.  Able to provide services to the very nervous and or mentally physically challenged, fully insured and enhanced DBS licensed. Divecrew (Surrey) is a SSI Centre and a BSAC Fast Track Centre for the South East of England.

‘A genuine 5 Star dive centre’ A quote from a PADI Senior Executive.

YOUR SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY

DIVECREW HAS BEEN OPERATING SINCE 1995

UK’S ONLY GOLD STAR IDC CENTRE

YOUR SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY

DIVECREW HAS BEEN OPERATING SINCE 1995

UK’S ONLY GOLD STAR IDC CENTRE