Meet Rick Davis: SSI diving, Scuba Jedi

I take a practical and pragmatic approach to creating and educating comfortable and competent divers and exceptional dive leaders.

I learned to dive through BSAC when I was 17, really for no other reason than the opportunity presented itself.

But loved it! I went diving on The Great Barrier Reef several years later, took a handful of PADI classes, saw working dive leaders in action and shortly after enrolled myself in an extended SSI DiveCon internship.

Within a year I was bopping about the Fiji Islands and living the dream; working on reef-fringed islands, diving every day, swimming with the fishes, introducing people to a world about which I am passionate and training others to do the same!

Six years on and I am now an SSI DiveCon Instructor and NAUI Instructor Trainer, working full-time in the industry but in a very different environment.

I now manage a full-service Michigan-based dive retail store and run a charter boat out to historic Great Lakes shipwrecks during the summer season. During the winter, when I’ve just about had it with the frigid fresh water of the Lakes, I trade in my drysuit for a 1.5mm rashy and head back to the tropics to visit my more colourful fishy friends.

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