PADI Master Instructor #95297
SDI/TDI Instructor #6075
Divers Alert Network Instructor #11274
SCUBA for KIDS Instructor
Chip became interested in the ocean
environment shortly after being certified as a scuba diver in 1987.
Fully bitten by the bug, Chip founded a local travel and dive club,
SeaDevil Divers,
in 1997 and subsequently in 1998 opened
Dive Connections, a PADI 5 Star IDC scuba facility serving
the Central Virginia area.
He is a PADI Master Instructor, both a Scuba Diving International and Technical Diving International Instructor, and a “way cool” Scuba for KIDS Instructor. He is probably the most proud of the last designation because he thoroughly enjoys introducing people especially young folks to the world of scuba diving. Chip teaches and divemasters trips throughout the Caribbean and logged his 1300th dive this past year.
Chip
has served on the
Board of Directors of
Earth Echo International, formerly the Philippe Cousteau Foundation.
Specialty Instructor Designations
Emergency First
Responder Instructor
CPR & AED Care for Children Instructor
| PADI | ||
| Altitude | Equipment Specialist | Photography |
| Boat | Fish Identification | Project Aware |
| Coral Reef Conservation | Multilevel | Search & Recovery |
| Deep Diver | Naturalist | Wreck Diver |
| Dry Suit | Navigation | Oxygen First Aid (Scuba) |
| Drift Diving | Night Diver | Hazardous Marine Life |
| Enriched Air | Peak Buoyancy | |
| SDI/TDI | ||
| Dräger Rebreather | Solo Diving | |
| DAN | ||
| Oxygen First Aid (Scuba) | Advanced O2 (Scuba) | Hazardous Marine Life |
"Your
Connection
to Everything Underwater"
909 Gardens Blvd
Charlottesville, VA 22901
434-964-9200