DIVE TEAM

PADI IDC Staff Instructor Joe Quinn

Joe hails from The New York area and loves to dive and teach. Joe teaches Discover Scuba up to Assistant instructor and a host of specalty dive classes. He is also is a dive master on many of the sites. Joe likes to stay on the water year round and the water is never too cold for him. He is the head dive instructor here at Express Watersports and is in charge of all dive training programs. Joe recently obtained his Masters Captain License from the USCG.

Master Captain Ralph Eichstaedt

Ralph is a license Master Captain and currently runs the dive boat Scuba Express. Ralph loves to be out on the water. Ralph is the guy who you will see running things on the dive boat and making sure the crew is doing a great job. Ralph has been all over the world transporting boats and has some great stories.

PADI Dive Instructor & Dive Master Erin

Erin has been on the dive team for 2 seasons now and has done a great job helping customers on the boat. She teaches Discover Scuba classes as well as work the boat as a divemaster on the dive sites. You might see her go over first to set chain and tie into the wreck site. Erin is attending college. She is now a PADI Instructor.

Dive Master Nick Mariano

Nick has completed his dive master training with Express Watersports. He has worked on the dive boat for the past few seasons getting the dives and the experience he needs to be a professional dive master. He has done an excellent job and we welcome him to the dive team. Nick get to travel the world with his job and he has dove in some great places.

Dive Master James

James has also completed his dive master training. He has worked on the dive boat part time getting the experience and dives needed to provide customers the best service. James has done an excellent job and we welcome him to the dive team.

Master Captain & Dive Master Tony Garner

Tony is from upstate South Carolina. He is a license Master Captain, Divemaster, Shop tech, and orders lots of dive gear. Tony is very knowledgable on all the dive sites and dive gear. Tony is the one who works with all the Scuba vendors in getting what you need.

OWSI  Gary Cook PADI Instructor

Gary is from Maine & retired to Georgetown South Carolina in 2006. Gary is now an Padi Open water dive instructor  OWSI and teaches 5 PADI specialty classes. Wreck, Deep, Night, Nitrox,  & Digital Underwater Photography, Project Aware, Care for children w/AED, Peak performance Buoyancy. Gary loves to be on the water & teaching new students how scuba diving. Gary can also be seen traveling to many great dive destinations.

Film Team Rich Taylor

Rich Taylor is commonly seen on the dive boat shooting dive footage of various wrecks, reefs, and ledges of the coast of South Carolina. Rich and his film crew have done an excellent job in capturing the true underwater life off the coast of Myrtle beach. Rich works with Expedition teams, Exploration teams, and salvage crews to document underwater sites. He also works with local tv stations on local programming. You never know you might be in one of the films.

DM Karla Freede

Karla orginally from Pittsburg Pennslyvania started out working on the dive boat as an intern while going to Coastal Carolina University. She has worked her way up to the role of Divemaster and can be seen out on the  Dive boat helping customers and new students or in the Pool doing Discover scuba. Karla recently decided that she want to be an PADI Instructor and will soon have her OWSI Card.

Dive Master Danny Attayek

Danny is From Greensboro NC has lived in Garden City Beach area since 1989. He was a Myrtle beach lifeguard. Danny is also the #1 salesman for Karen Gibbins Embroidery in Garden City Beach. He is the Chief Executive PIG Cooker, Chairman of Murrells Inlet Yacht Club and a Sales Rep for OCE. You can find Danny serving as DM on the Dive boat setting chain and assiting customers. He loves to Dive.

Dive Master Chad Morgan

Chad has been diving and a dive master in Myrtle Beach area for a long time. He has logged years of diving on lots of sites . Many of you are very fimiliar with Chad. Chad also teaches spearfishing classes and techniques to new spearfishing customers. Chad also loves to dive. He can be seen cruising to the jetty or paradise in search of flounder. He is the yoda zen master in shooting cobia. 3 on one trip alone all huge fish.

Capt Easy Go....AKA Perry Jones

Perry Jones is Jennifer Bryan and Bens father. We call Him Capt Easy Go. He drives our golf cart around doing various task. He is Jennifer's right hand man for Getting errands done. Perry can be found on most of our out of town trips to Florida, Bahamas, Cozumel etc. He takes care of most of the bookwork and payments along the way and makes sure everyone gets what they need on our trips. He is a regular on the Crystal River trips as most of the Spring owners know him and share old times.

Master Captain Jonathan Poore

PIC coming soon

Jonathan loves to be on the water and from time to time you may see him running the new dive boat Scuba Express . The Newton 46. He also may just be along for the ride as a Divemaster helping Joe with Students, setting chain, or working the back deck. He is not afraid of loading all those dive tanks and not even going diving. You will always see him at the dock, on the boat, in the pool or at the office.

Andrew  Raak
Andrew is a student at Coastal Carolina University and started on the Dive boat as an intern. Andrew is gaining new certifications and just finished Rescue and will be moving up to dive master. He is now working in the dive shop in sales and is learning how to rebuild regulators from Tony and Jonathan.