Meet the Team...

At DIVE360, we have a team of dedicated and hardworking Instructors & Divemasters. They are all passionate about diving and about ensuring the best possible experience for you at all times.

Gareth Fearn - DIVE360 Owner

Staff Instructor

Diving since: 2005
Where Dived: UK including - Lundy Island, Plymouth,Portland, Chepstow & Wraysbury. Egypt - Sharm El Sheikh, Brothers, Hurghada. Tunisia and Galapagos
Best dive: Galapagos - eagle rays, dolphins, manta rays, mobula rays pilot whales & hammerhead city!
Most embarrassing moment: I'm not telling!
Favourite dive moment: Signing off my first ever student diver. It was a great feeling of achievement!
Best thing about DIVE360: It would have to be the team. Nothing is ever too much trouble.

Top diving tip: Only diving can make you a diver. Do the training, but more importantly, go out and dive!

Kevin Linsell - Staff Instructor

Diving since: 2005
Where Dived: UK, Australia, Red Sea, Portugal, Greece, Gozo, Bahamas & Jamaica
Best dive: Red Sea (fish variety), Scapa Flow (wrecks) - who says UK diving is boring?!
Most embarrassing moment: Fell off a RIB into the Red Sea with no air in BCD - a bit too eager maybe!
Favourite dive moment: Oceanic Whitetip in the Red Sea - within touching distance. Oh.. and reading the words 'Welcome to my world' on Paul Toomer's slate at 60m on our recent trimix course.
Best thing about DIVE360: Great to work with - group of fun, enthusiastic people.

Top diving tip: Plan the dive & dive the plan. Enjoy every moment and stay safe.

Claire Samuel - MSDT Instructor

Diving since: 2000
Where Dived: Lord Howe Island, Malta & Gozo, Cyprus, Bermuda, Galapagos, Argentina, Brasil, Easter Island, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Caribbean, Hawaii, Mexico and now the UK! Brrrggghhh
Best dive: Too many to choose just one! Top 3... French Polynesia - the sheer number of fish, sharks, turtles and manta rays on every dive! Also having Orca's swim past on a dive in NZ and cave diving in Brazil just spectacular.
Most embarrassing moment: Demonstrating PADI's scuba unit removal underwater and managing to demonstrate bikini top removal at the same time, good old velco!
Favourite dive moment: Everytime I take a student out for their first open water and they squeal at the excitement of seeing fish.
Best thing about DIVE360: Friendly and welcoming to all levels. Just a great bunch of people that want to dive and have fun.

Top diving tip: Relax - know your equipment, skills and dive slowly. Take your time and get up close to see things. You'll get to the stage when the little things you find down there may be more interesting than big old sharks......

Paul Toomer - Course Director, Technical Instructor

Diving since: Adam was a lad
Where Dived: Anywhere deep
Best dive: The next one...
Most embarrassing moment: Yeah like right...
Favourite dive moment: Passing Kev and Gareth my slate at 60m with the imortal words 'Welcome to my world' when they successfully completed the Tec Trimix course
Best thing about DIVE360: Geoff Vader

Top diving tip: Sentinal - No bubbles, no troubles

Gary Barnett - IANTD Normoxic/Technical Diver - Dive Master

Diving since: 2003
Where Dived: Egypt, Jordan, Malta, Gozo, Maldives, UK
Best dive: Meeting Mantas and whale sharks for the first time, very humbling
Most embarrassing moment: I've been very lucky so far, it's normally others who have their moments when I'm around ( Craig, Des, Colin and Vix), although, I must be due one!!
Favourite dive moment: Watching Louise pass her open water. Louise had a real fear of water, so much so she wouldn't even get her face wet in the shower! 5 years on, she is now a very accomplished Dive Master and role model for others.
Best thing about DIVE360: Great bunch of people, what more could you want!

Top diving tip: Dive safe, know your equipment, know your skills and know your ability! You can't buy experience, you have to undergo it, so take your time, relax and most of all enjoy it.

Vicky Curtis - Dive Master

Diving since: 2004
Where Dived: Egypt lots, Jordan, Maldives, Malta, Gozo, Cyprus, Turkey and of course the lovely UK!
Best dive: Oceanic mantas in the maldives - they're massive!!
Most embarrassing moment: Whilst being ever so slightly competitive (unlike me I know!) I swam head first into an underwater light in a swimming pool in the Maldives whilst on a diving holiday (I had my eyes shut). My so called friends nearly gave themselves hernias they were laughing so hard. Thanks guys for caring so much - you know who you are!!!
Favourite dive moment: aving an oceanic white tip shark with pilot fish come join us for our safety stop under the boat on the Brothers islands - Cool! Or was it watching nice Craigy have to choose between eating chocolate or breathing whilst trying to master underwater 'fruit and nut' eating? Breathing or chocolate what would you choose?
Best thing about DIVE360: Me... Naturally!

Top diving tip: Don't try to eat chocolate underwater - especially cadbury's fruit and nut. Hazelnuts and regulators don't mix.