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Barry Hooe
PADI IDCSI-69243
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Barry was certified in the Philippines in December of 1984. After his Open Water class he continued to improve his skills with Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver, and Divemaster course. In July 1993 Barry completed the Instructor Development course (IDC) and Instructor Evaluation (IE) November 1994. His specialities include: High Altitude Diver, Underwater Hunter, Equipment Specialist, Drift Diver, Deep Diver, and PSI Visual Cylinder Inspector.
Today, he is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer / Staff IDC Instructor with over 1000 logged dives in oceans and lakes around the world! Barry teaches many speciality courses, including Search & Recovery Diver, Equipment Specialist, Multilevel Diver, Underwater Navigator, Dry Suit Diver, Deep Diver, Boat Diver, and Night Diver. Through out his diving career he has had the opportunity to dive in the Philippines; Okinawa, Japan; Malaysia; Singapore; Indonesia; Australia; Florida; Oregon; and Washington.
One of Barry's favorite memories continues to be the excitement he felt breathing underwater for the first time. Barry is still excited every time a new diver takes his or her first breath underwater. He says the look on their face is what makes being a SCUBA instructor the most rewarding adventure you can have!
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Denise Hoover
PADI MSDT-193152
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Denise started diving in 1990 in Kona, Hawaii. Subsequent warm water diving experience has included incredible locations like the Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Great Barrier Reef, Yap, Palau, the Cocos Islands, the Galapagos Islands, Honduras & Roatan, and of course Hood Canal and the Puget Sound.
Denise finally braved the cold water of the Pacific Northwest in 2003 to join the Salem Scuba family and become a divemaster in 2004. Favorite diving memories include whale shark encounters, finding the elusive and amazing Mantis Shrimp, spending whole dives searching for pygmy sea horses, a quest to find every nudibranch in the book, and endless entertaining activities during decompression stops and between dives. When not diving or at work at Salem Hospital, Denise can be found teaching classes at the local Red Cross, serving with Marion County Search and Rescue, running, swimming, riding horses, riding bikes, spending time with good friends and good food, or generally playing outside.
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Curt VanDerWerff
PADI MSDT-193314
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Curt began diving as an excuse for going to tropical destinations, other than just laying around on the beach having fruity drinks with little umbrellas in them. After his first trip he was hooked and has since gone to Bonaire, Cozumel and Florida Keys.
Curt continued diving in the Northwest in order to stay in practice and increase his skills. He soon discovered the amazing variety of undersea life in the Puget Sound. While taking classes Curt realized he enjoyed helping other divers and began working on his professional ratings.
Curt finds diving to be a great distraction from his full time job in community mental health. Outside of work and diving he enjoys sailing, the beach, family, friends and church. His future diving plans include more scuba related travel to the Caymans and Belize.
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Robert Hale
PADI OWSI-193153
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Robert's diving adventures began in 1998 when his best friend talked him into joining the Open Water certification class he was attending at Salem Scuba. He spent most of the first few years diving off of the Oregon coast looking for the big one that would get away. In August of 2003 he received his advanced certification and has since moved on to DiveMaster and now instructor.
Robert loves to dive in the NW and one day hopes to make it to warm water, if for nothing else but to dive without so much gear.
Outside of diving, he is a Law Enforcment student at Western Oregon University, who spends his time between girlfriend, school, work, and diving.
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Norm Costello
PADI OWSI 164680
SDI/TDI 16238
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Norm has been diving since he was 12 years old. He became a Dive Master in 1996. He enjoys showing students the exciting underwater world. In 2009 he took the plunge and became an Open Water Istructor
Norm has never met a crab he didn't like to eat. Email Norm at Norm@salemscuba.com
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David O'Neill
PADI OWSI
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