We have a lovely team of Instructors and Divemaster here at Ocean View
The team here at Ocean View are passionate about diving, our number one concern is your safety, whether we are teaching you to dive, or servicing your dive equipment, below is a little bit more about us.
Graeme Pace
Joint owner of Ocean View Diving and Southern Cylinder Services. PADI M.I
Graeme learnt to dive in Northamptonshire about 20 years ago. Since then all of his training has been carried out in UK waters. Graeme became a PADI Pro in 2004 and completed his IDC at Stoney Cove in 2005. Over the years he has dived extensively both at home and abroad.
Now Graeme spends most of his time behind the scenes, running both the dive centre and our sister company Southern Cylinder Services. He also does the dirty jobs like checking out various dive locations all around the globe.
Carl Foley
Joint owner of Ocean View Diving and Southern Cylinder Services. PADI M.I
Details to come.
Matt Rich
Joint owner of Ocean View Diving and Southern Cylinder Services. PADI M.I
Details to come.
Angela Phillips
PADI Instructor M.S.D.T
Angela learnt to dive in the balmy waters of Stoney Cove in Leicestershire in 2001, and continued to do all of her training in the UK, with her PADI Instructor course back at Stoney Cove in 2008.
Angela is one of our full time PADI instructors, able to teach PADI Seals right up to Divemaster, with lots of Specialty courses in between.
She is also now one of our two PADI Freediving Instructors at the centre, developing our training abilities whenever she can.
Angela has been diving in a few far flung places, such as Australia, Socorro and the Maldives, but is pretty happy playing with the Seals off of our own UK coastline.
You will usually find her developing new wrinkles in the pool or behind her Mac sorting out the website.
Andy Langler
PADI Instructor M.S.D.T
Andy is a very experienced diver and became a PADI instructor in 2011.
He is a Master Scuba Diver Trainer and an EFR instructor as well as being qualified to teach a number of PADI specialties. He is also a sidemount instructor and enjoys technical diving.
Pash Baker
PADI Instructor, and Freedive Instructor
Pash is one of our two PADI Freediving Instructors at the centre, developing our training abilities whenever she can.
Pash has been diving in quite a few far flung places. She is a fantastic underwater photographer with images featured in major dive magazines.
Teresa Jones
PADI Divemaster
Teresa certified as an Open Water diver with Ocean View in 2018, here in the UK. It was an experience that exceeded all her expectations, so she decided to continue with her training and became a Divemaster in early 2022. She has dived in Australia , Socorro and the Maldives.
Teresa is now part of the Ocean View team & is excited to introduce new divers to this incredible sport.
Bob Sullivan
PADI Divemaster
Bob learnt to dive in the warm waters of Lanzarote in 2004.
He has been part of the team since 2015 and you will find him helping all ages to get the most out of their training experience
Nassera Thompson
PADI Divemaster
Nassera has been diving for quite a few years now. She enjoys diving here in the UK as well as abroad.
More recently Nassera has been heading into the Tec side of diving.
You will often see Nassera here in the pool with our youngest divers, as well as assisting in our main training courses.
If you want to get to know more about us, pop by or drop us an email to see what we can do to help on your next diving adventure.
