Jim is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer who works full time for JND Scuba Center/Dixie Divers. He has been a diver for over 40 years, having started with the YMCA scuba program in high school. He has dived throughout the US, quarries in Pennsylvania, lakes in Colorado and Texas, kelp in California and the reefs of Hawaii, as well as accompanied JND Scuba on several trips through the Caribbean.
Jim is NACD full cave certified and dives the caves of North Florida as much as possible. He is also certified in PADI/DSAT Tec program for diving deep wrecks off the Florida coast. Jim is also an avid fish watcher and videographer, He enjoys teaching fish ID classes, along with a dozen specialties. Recently he has completed has completed his TDI Advanced Nitrox & Decompression Procedures Course.
He is a retired Air Force and Air National Guard officer with flight experience throughout the world.