Learn to teach from a recognized expert: Our PADI Course Director, Mike Jones, has been teaching for more than 20 years. In addition to teaching scuba, Dr. Jones teaches graduate level engineering courses for Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. Raised on Navy bases around the world, Mike joined the Navy as soon as he was old enough. Following graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy he married his high school sweetheart and became a submariner. The next 20 years were spent driving submarines, developing combat systems for submarines and training submariners while raising two sons and a daughter. In his last assignment on active duty, Commander Jones was the Training Officer for the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Force. Following retirement from the Navy in 2007, and determined to stay away from the ocean forever, Mike moved his family to Maryland. Like an alcoholic trying to remain sober, Mike thought about the ocean continuously and tried to stay above the surface “one day at a time.” In 2012 Mike moved his family to Hawaii for work and the pull of the ocean became irresistible. After spending years living beneath the ocean’s surface, Mike finally learned to scuba dive in January, 2013. The addiction returned with a vengeance. He soon enrolled at Hawaii Scuba University (HSU) where he rose through the ranks to become an instructor and then a Course Director before focusing on technical and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) diving. He has logged thousands of dives, certified more than 400 divers and trained more than 70 instructors. He is Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) diver, instructor, and instructor trainer who routinely dives to 300’ using TRIMIX and travels around the world training CCR professionals. He is an active Public Safety Diver, on two teams as well as a PSD instructor and instructor trainer. He is one of only a few PADI Advanced Public Safety Diver Instructors in the state. He spends most evenings and weekends diving. The rest of the time he is thinking about diving.