Meet Our Scuba Diving Instructors

Wallin's Dive Center the most experienced and friendly  scuba instructing staff in the San Francisco Bay Area. Meet some of the staff  who you will be learning to dive from at our store.

• Open water thru DC Instructor SSI
• Level 2 Trimix Diver
• GUE Advanced Trimix Diver
• TDI Full Cave Diver NSS-CDS
• O2 Provider Instructor DAN

Lynn Brown
PADI Instructor #251522
SSI Instructor # 7645

• Open Water
  

•  Open Water

Ron Bryant
PADI Instructor # 251533
SSI Instructor # 10464

• Open Water
• Boat Diver
• Deep Diver
• Dive Master
• Drysuit Diver
• Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox)
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Rescue Diver
• UW Navigator 

Nick Copping
PADI Instructor # 253331
SSI Instructor # 28051

• Open Water
• Boat Diver
• Care for Children
• Underwater Navigation
• Digital Photography
• Dry Suit Diver
• Night Diver
• Search and Recovery
• Deep Diver
• Drift Diver
• Enriched Air Diving
• Emergency First Responder
• Tec Rec Trimix Blender
• Multilevel Diver

T Cotter
PADI Instructor # 48917
SSI Instructor # 28051

• Open Water
• Boat Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox)
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Rescue
• Search and Recovery
• UW Navigator

Garry Davis
PADI Instructor # 253313
SSI Instructor # 11619

• Open Water
• Boat Diver
• Dry Suit Diver
• Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox)
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Rescue Diver
• UW Navigator

Barbara Gibson
PADI Instructor # 11806
SSI Instructor # 5751

•  Open Water

Ted Heublien
PADI Instructor # 251551
SSI Instructor # 21675 Public Safety
Diver Association & Water Rescue (PSDA) Instructor levels I, II, III

• Open Water  
• Rescue Diver 
• Divemaster
• Altitude Diver
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Specialty
• Boat Diver
• Deep Diver
• Digital Unerwater Photography
• Dry Suit
• Enriched Air
• Fish ID
• Kayak Diver
• Night Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search & Recovery
• UW Naturalist
• UW Navigator
• UW Photographer
• Wreck Diver
• Primary (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) and AED
• Care for Children

Steve Holmstrom 
PADI Instructor # 65186
SSI Instructor # 5757

• Open Water 
• Sea Signs 
• Rescue 
• Dry Suit Diver
• Drift Diver
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation
• Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) 
• Project Aware Diver
• Wreck Instructor 
• Search & Recovery 
• Peak Performance Buoyancy  
• Equipment Specialist  
• Multilevel Diver 
• Night Diver  
• UW Navigator  
• Boat Diver 
• Deep Diver 
• UW Photography 
• UW Naturalist

Arndt Hufenbach
PADI Instructor # 253314
SSI Instructor # 48353

•  Open Water

Gareth Ingram
PADI Instructor # 82358

• Open Water to Assistant Instructor courses)
• Public Safety Diving Association Instructor
• Emergency First Response Instructor
• Divers Alert Network Instructor
• Deep Diver
• Night Diver
• Boat Diver
• Digital Underwater Photography
• Dry Suit Diver
• Enriched Air Diver
• Search & Recovery Diver
• Equipment Specialist
• Underwater Naturalist
• Wreck Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Specialty
• Oxygen Provider
• Full Face Mask for Recreational Divers (applied for, approval by Xmas)
• DAN Courses; First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life, AEDs for Scuba Diving, AEDs for Aquatic Emergencies, Oxygen for Aquatic Emergencies, Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, On site Neurological Assessment for Divers, Diving Emergency Management Provider Program, Diving First Aid for Professionals
• EFR Courses; Primary (CPR) Care, Secondary (First Aid) Care, Care for Children (all levels of CPR w/AED)
•  Public Safety; Full range Level I to III plus the complete range of surface support courses required of full time/volunteer Law Enforcement, Fire or allied EMS teams. Tailored dive emergency response packages.

Dennis Imfeld
PADI Instructor #254366
SSI Instructor # 49172

• Open Water Diver
• Boat Diver
• Underwater Navigation
• Dry Suit Diver
• Night Diver
• Deep Diver
• Enriched Air Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation

David Laird
PADI Instructor # 97076
SSI Instructor # 6716

•  Open Water
• Freediving

Linda Lait
PADI Divemaster # 162038
SSI Instructor # 6596

•  Open Water

• Open Water Scuba
• Adventure Diving
• Advanced Open Water
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation
• Boat
• Deep Diving
• Digital UW Photography
• Dry Suit Diving
• EFR Instructor
• Enriched Air
• Night Diver
• Oxygen First Aid
• O2 Provider Insructor  DAN # 8078
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search and Recovery  
• UW Navigator
• UW Photographer

• PADI IDC Staff Instructor
• SSI Instructor Certifier
• SSI Instructor Trainer
• Open Water Scuba Instructor
• Master Instructor Trainer
• Care for Children Instructor
• Digital Underwater Photography Instructor
• Altitude Instructor
• Boat Diver Instructor
• Deep Diver Instructor
• Dry Suit Instructor
• Search & Recovery Instructor
• Underwater Navigation Instructor
• Underwater Photography Instructor
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation SP Instructor
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Instructor
• Equipment Specialist Instructor
• Night Diver Instructor
• EFR Instructor
• Wreck Diving Instructor
• Adventure Diving Instructor
• Advanced Open Water Instructor
• Dive Master Instructor
• Assistant Open Water Scuba Instructor
• Tec Rec Trimix Blender Instructor
• Snorkeling Instructor
• Computer Diving Instructor
• Scuba Skills Update Instructor
• Try Scuba Instructor
• Scuba Ranger Instructor
• Scuba Ranger Instructor Trainer
• Advanced Scuba Ranger Instructor

•  Open Water

• PADI IDC Staff Instructor
  
• EFR Instructor
• DAN O2 Provider Insructor  # 10889
• Boat
• Deep Diving
• Digital UW Photography
• Dry Suit Diving
• Enriched Air
• Equipment
• Night Diver
• Oxygen First Aid
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Search and Recovery
• UW Naturalist
• UW Navigator
• UW Photographer
• Wreck

•  PADI  Master Scuba Diver Trainer
• SSI  open water to Dive control Specialist
• Boat Instructor
• Dry Suit Instructor   
• Enriched Air Instructor
• Underwater Navigator Instructor 
• Night Diver Instructor
• Underwater Photographer Instructor
• Search & Recovery Instructor   
• Deep Instructor   
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Instructor  
• Project Aware Instructor  
• AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Sp Instructor

• Open Water
• Underwater Naturalist Instructor
• Underwater Navigator Instructor
• Night Diver Instructor
• Enriched Air Instructor
• Dry Suit Instructor
• Deep Diver Instructor
• Boat Diver Instuctor

Catherine Murty
PADI Divemaster #
SSI Divecon# 15985