Steven Ripley
Hello, my name is Steven Ripley, I go by Steve. I started diving in 1974 but living in northern central Nevada diving was not something I was able to do often. An abandoned barite mine and a gravel pit were my dive sites. I did fall in love with diving even with these limited diving conditions. When I moved to northern California I enrolled in further educational classes. I progressed through Advanced, Rescue and Dive Master training; I became a PADI instructor in 1994. I certified over 300 Open Water, Advanced, Rescue and Dive Master Students under the PADI program.
In May of 2001 I crossed over and became an Instructor through SSI (Scuba Schools International). The cross over gave me a title of Dive Control Specialist Instructor. This combines the dive leader status of, OWI/AOWI/DCSI. In June 2005 I became a Scuba Ranger Instructor for our Scuba Ranger program. As of December 2005, I achieved the rating of Master Instructor.
My specialty certifications I am able to teach are; Boat, Deep, Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility, Equipment, Dry suit, Underwater Photography, Search & Recovery, Enriched Air Nitrox and Stress & Rescue. I have trained over 475 students with various ratings from Open Water through Dive Control Specialist from 2001-2010.
Being an Instructor and store owner, my diving consists of instructional open water dives with my students in Monterey, Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe and other fresh water locations. I also dive in the same locations with our dive club for pleasure as well as the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California. For warm water diving; my travels have been to Honduras, Belize, Cozumel, Curacao, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
My personal hobby is photography. I hope you enjoy the photo gallery that we have assembled for you to view.
HAPPY DIVING