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Meet the Team

It is our dedicated team of dive staff that creates the friendly and relaxed atmosphere for which Oonas Dive Club is renowned. Here is an insight into the members of our team.
 

Nick Browne - Manager

Dive Qualification: PADI MSDT

Dived Where: Red Sea, Malta, Philipinnes, UK

Favourite Red Sea Diving Experience: watching Blacktips Sharks at Shark Reef making a kill.

Funniest/Embarrassing Moment: Being unable to prevent a trolley loaded with dive equipment rolling off the side of a jetty!!! (all equipment was recovered)

Most Likely to .......  never see a WhaleShark. :-(

 
 

amyAmy Oxtoby

Dive Qualifications: PADI OWSI

Dived Where: UK, Cyprus, Thailand, Maldives, Red Sea

Favourite Red Sea Diving Experience: Anytime we do a dive and have a WhaleShark and the guests have never seen one before.

Funniest/Embarrassing Diving moment: Too numerous to mention, but if you buy her a beer she'll tell you them all!

Mostly likely to: be able to identify the most obscure nudibranchs - and see the most WhaleSharks in a year.
 

jonathanJonathan Anderson

Dive Qualifications: PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer

Dived Where: Red Sea, Caribbean, Thailand, Malaysia, Stoney Cove

Favourite Red Sea Diving Experience: Hanging out with too many hammerheads to count on the back of Jackson

Funniest/Embarrassing Diving Moment: Watching a guest fall sleep during one if my dive briefings during DiveMaster training (hasn't happened since to our knowledge)

Most Likely to ........: be looking the other way when the big stuff goes by.
 

Rachel 01Rachel Hurst

Dive Qualifications: PADI OWSI
 
 Dived Where: Red Sea… there’s no better place!

Favourite Diving Experience: That would be the 25 hammerheads off the back of Jackson!

Funniest/Embarrassing Diving Moment: Surfacing on the wrong side of Marsa Bareika and having to politely explain to the guests that there might be a long swim back to the boat…

Most Likely to ........: provide the pre-dive dance entertainment.
 

Corri Clarke - Assistant Manager

Dive Qualification: PADI Staff Instructor

Dived Where: Red Sea, Cyprus, Seychelles, Australia, New Zealand, Mozambique, Tanzania, UK

Favourite Red Sea Diving Experience: Diving the back of Jackson (Tiran) with 50+ Hammerhead Sharks. 

Funniest/Embarrassing Moment: Doing a perfect dive off the side of the boat and not realising I surfaced without a bikini! no one noticed, honest!

Most Likely to........  get DCI (Desk Confinement Injury)
 

Pete Brucepete bruce

Dive Qualifications: PADI Staff Instructor

Dived Where: Red Sea, Caribbean, Maldives, UK

Favourite Red Sea Diving Moment: Spending well over an hour interacting with dolphins, if the air had lasted longer I would have stayed there longer.

Most Embarrassing Diving Moment: falling off the back of the boat to check the current 200 meters from the reef without a mask, it doesn’t work.

Most likely to......: be dressed up in a Sexy Santa outfit at Christmas Eve party!
 

WarnerWarner Bates

Dive Qualifications: PADI OWSI

Dived Where: Thailand, Malaysia, Red Sea

Favourite Red Sea Diving Experience: Seeing a Manta Ray cruising along Ras Zatar

Funniest/Embarrassing Diving moment: Losing my SMB over the top of Jackson Reef and the inevitable swim of shame to retrieve it.

Most Likely to ......  order pizza
 

alex murray 2Alexandra Murray

Dive Qualifications: Padi OWSI

Dived Where: Thailand, Red Sea, Greece, Abu Dhabi

Favourite Red Sea Diving Experience: close encounter with a thresher shark at Ras Katy

Funniest/Embarrassing Diving Moment: losing my new fin whilst trying to exit the water at shark/yolanda and seeing it float past on the boat.. safe to say it is well and truly gone!

Most Likely to.....: bump into something... fall asleep during a film... or get lost ;-)