We are very pleased and proud to welcome Mick Chapman, Course Director, to the TSD team!
You won’t find many divers with more experience than British born Mick Chapman! With over 14,000 dives under his belt, there is not a lot about diving that he does not know!
Mick will be our resident Course Director in charge of all PADI Instructor Development at TSD and you will not get a better start on your your life as a PADI Instructor!
Mick first started teaching diving in the 1980s, and has been a PADI Course Director for 14 years. He has worked as a dive professional in various guises all around the world in locations as diverse as the Mediterranean (including Gozo, Malta and Cyprus), Norway, six years in the Red Sea and Africa including Israel, Jordan, the Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, the Seychelles and Kenya. In Asia he spent a fair amount of time in Thailand, with a claim to fame in that he staffed the first ever IDC on Koh Tao many years ago. He has also spent time in Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Sipadan. On yet another continent he has worked the US East and West Coasts, Mexico, Jamaica, Belize, Honduras and its Bay Islands.
In a long and varied career in diving, as well as recreational diving, he has also:
- Worked on TV as a double and underwater stunt man!
- Worked with Discovery Channel and other TV networks producing underwater footage including footage of the giant Humbolt squid which he dived with regularly.
- Formed a Search and Rescue/Recovery Unit for the Norwegian Police becoming the only civilian unit to operate with the Norwegian police force on such underwater jobs.
- Previously owned his own dive centers in Norway and in Mexico. Mick has recently sold his PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Center in Mexico so he can get back to focusing full time on what he really loves – teaching.
As well as teaching up to PADI Instructor level, he teaches a wide range of PADI Specialty and Instructor Specialty courses, including his own PADI Reef Diver Specialty which has environmentally based focus – very useful to any PADI professional.
Contact us to find out more about our IDCs, the next one starts on May 13!
