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| Dean's Dive Center is a locally owned dive shop
and is the only PADI facility in the area. Brent
Argabright, the owner, has been active in the
Southwest Florida dive business since 1993 and an
active diver for much longer. |
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| Dean's carries major brands of dive equipment and
if you don't see what you want in the dive shop, just
ask and Brent will do everything to get it there for
you quickly. |
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| Dean's Team |
 Bo McMahon
Qualified to teach: Open
Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue,
Divemaster, Emergency First
Response, EFR Childcare, Peak
Performance Buoyancy, Project Aware,
AWARE Coral Reef Conservation |
| Place of Birth: Ft.
Myers, Florida |
| Started diving: 1993 |
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| Interests in diving:
Wrecks, Drift Diving Bridges,
Spearfishing |
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| Rewarding aspect of being an
instructor: Meeting a wide
variety of people and showing them a
whole new world |
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 Matt
Schafer
Qualified to teach: Open Water,
Advanced Open Water, Rescue, Divemaster,
Emergency First Response for Adults and
Children, Deep, Enriched Air, Night, Wreck, Peak
Performance Buoyancy, Project AWARE, AWARE Coral
Reef Conservation, Master Scuba Diver, Drift
Diver, Underwater Hunter. |
| Place of Birth:
Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Full-time Occupation:
High School Teacher |
| Started diving: 1984 |
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| Interests in diving:
Travel, wrecks, hunting, and meeting
new people. |
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| Rewarding aspect of being an
instructor: I have spent my
professional life as an educator and
coach who happened to scuba dive.
Combining my two loves, teaching and
diving, has been an amazing and
enriching experience. |
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 Charles
Kiss
Qualified to teach: Open Water,
Advanced Open Water, Rescue, Divemaster, Master
Scuba Diver, Assistant Instructor, Peak
Performance Buoyancy, Project AWARE Coral Reef
Conservation, Emergency First Response for
Adults and Children, DAN Oxygen Provider,
Drysuit Diver, Wreck, Night, Deep, Search and
Recovery, Diver Propulsion Vehicle Diver, Drift,
Enriched Air, Underwater Navigation, Underwater
Videographer, Equipment Specialist, Digital
Underwater Photographer, AWARE Fish
Identification, Underwater Naturalist,
Multilevel Diver, Boat Diver, EFR Instructor
Trainer, Emergency Oxygen Provider and TEC REC
Gas Blender |
| Place of Birth: Sopron,
Hungary |
| Started diving: 1997 |
| Occupation: Retired
entrepreneur |
| Interests in diving:
Reefs, wrecks, travel, new
challenges. |
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| Rewarding aspect of being an
instructor: Love to open a new
world for people that they can
really enjoy. |
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 Carlos
"Chuck" Shomaker
Qualified to teach:
Travel and a variety of diving.
Qualified to teach: Open Water, Advanced Open
Water, Rescue, Divemaster, Emergency First
Response, Enriched Air, DAN Oxygen Provider
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| Place of Birth: Canton,
Ohio |
| Full-time Occupation:
Radiation Therapy Equipment Engineer
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| Started diving: 1997 |
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| Interests in diving:
Exploring the undersea world and
sharing good times with great
people. |
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| Rewarding aspect of being an
instructor: I love passing on my
enthusiasm to new divers and seeing
them get hooked on scuba. |
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 Nadine
Nero
Qualified to teach: Open Water,
Advanced Open Water, Rescue,
Divemaster, Peak Performance
Buoyancy, Project AWARE, Drift,
Deep, Wreck, Enriched Air,
Underwater Photography, Fish
Identification, AWARE Coral Reef
Conservation |
| Place of Birth: New
Jersey |
| Full-time Occupation:
Nursing |
| Started diving: 1997 |
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| Interests in diving:
Photography and teaching diving
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| Rewarding aspect of being an
instructor: It is the ability
share the love I have for the sea
and all its inhabitants. Whenever
someone responds with enthusiasm and
immediately wants to begin the next
dive, I am grateful to be a part of
that experience. |
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Scott Wheeler
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| Place of Birth:
Fort Myers, Florida |
| Full-time Occupation:
Student/Store Manager |
| Started diving: 2000 |
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| Interests in diving:
Hunting & Wreck Diving. |
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Amanda
Patterson
Qualified to teach: Open Water, Advanced
Open Water, Rescue, Divemaster, Emergency First
Response, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Project
Aware, AWARE Coral Reef Conservation and Fish
ID, Enriched Air, Deep, Wreck, Drift, Night, DAN
Oxygen Provider, Search and Recovery |
| Place of Birth:
Lamar, Colorado - came to Fort Myers
by way of Burlington, Iowa |
| Occupation: Student at
FGCU |
| Started diving: 1998 |
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| Interests in diving:
Marine life, spearfishing, wrecks
and travel. |
| Rewarding aspect of being an
instructor: Meeting lots of new
people, being able to introduce them
to my favorite hobby, and watching
new students take their first breath
on SCUBA. |
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| Brent was born in Ohio and started
diving in 1986. His main diving interests are
spearfishing and teaching.
Qualified to teach: Master Scuba
Diver, Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue,
Divemaster, Drift, Enriched Air, Wreck,
Underwater Photography, Deep, Navigation,
Underwater Hunter, Peak Performance Buoyancy,
Project AWARE, and Coral Reef Conservation
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| Rewarding aspect of being an instructor:
Seeing that first smile on the student’s face
when they realize what they are accomplishing. |
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