ABOUT US

We are a PADI 5 star IDC National Geographic centre and BSAC Premier Centre based at Selsey West Sussex

So who are the Team............. 

We are absolutely passionate about diving both in terms of our own diving and in trying to ensure that you are provided with the best possible diving experiences. We believe some of our best diving has been here in the UK.

So our focus is on persuading you to learn to dive, then ensuring that you continue to dive by offering you a range of different dive opportunities, experience (training) and equipment. We organise holidays and training overseas however we work hard to persuade you to dive in the UK and find out what you have been missing!  To help us achieve this we have a small dedicated support team. So come and join us for a tea or coffee and meet at least some of the team or read on to find out more about the key members of team: 

Linda Frampton - IDCS - Instructor - in 2000 Steve and I booked a holiday to Corsica at very short notice. On our first day we did a try dive and were hooked! First week of holiday learning to dive and second week persuading everyone to take us diving. Back in the UK we completed Advanced in Stoney Cove in January then off to the Red Sea. From then on diving was our passion. My best dives to date - there are so many.. Far Mulberry with cuttlefish and John Dory, Madivaru, Maldives with the Manta Rays, Los Galletos, Tenerife with the Turtles, Tabarka Scapa Flow for viz and drift, Papua New Guinea for beautiful reefs and a plethora of macrolife.

Steve Frampton - MSDT - Instructor, Boat Skipper, ASSET Technician -Both Linda and I learnt to dive together and since then we have enjoyed many hours underwater in various locations around the world with so many happy and wonderful memories. We've tried to distill all the good, bad and ugly that we have seen and experienced to create the service we offer our clients today. There are so many dives to remember: manta rays in the Maldives, Tabarka wreck dive in Scapa Flow, cuttlefish on the Far Mulberry. This year I am hoping to find our local seahorses...

Tony Dobinson – MI –Instructor, Boat Skipper -Having got the ‘urge to dive’ as far back as when I was 4, when I actually met a real ‘frog man’ on a beach in Dorset!  I have gone on to many things since underwater, being determined to broaden my knowledge in natural history and conservation. At the age of 22 and for more than 30 years since, I have seen the local sea life has such variety, proving to me the need to dive was without question! I have gone on as an instructor to specialise and bring the underwater world closer to many people through photos, lectures and courses. I have worked in dive centres and been on expeditions both here and abroad, and I have also considerable experience in extended range training and follow the ethos for safety first. My top-side expertise is as a powerboat trainer and a boat skipper, being at home with both power and sail. But what do I like to do best on me days off? …go diving of course!

Doc Adey -OWSI Instructor - I started diving as a teenager and have loved diving ever since and I want to share that passion with our students. I’m an HSE Medical Examiner of Divers, qualified as HSE Commercial SCUBA and Surface Supplied Diver, TDI Extended Range Instructor, TDI Trimix Diver, BSAC Advanced Diver, and PADI Instructor. My heart is in Technical and Wreck diving and I have been fortunate enough to have undertaken some epic dives in the South China Sea as well as the Red Sea and Scapa Flow. I’m just as happy in 3m of water under the Lifeboat Station as in some far flung location. I’ve been given a very warm welcome by Mulberry Divers and I want our students to experience the same.

Elaine Breakenridge- OWSI Instructor - I have been diving since August 2005 and a qualified Divemaster since November 2008.  My dive plans have changed dramatically since first taking my PADI open water course. The intention was to learn to dive in cold UK waters so that I could swim with dolphins – now, with a strange addiction to the cold UK climate and all it has to offer underwater, I get in the water whenever I can but there is nothing quite like that first trip to warm crystal clear waters abroad!  My favourite dive trip was to Sipidan in Northern Borneo in 2009 where turtles and sharks were a regular part of every dive but my favourite experience has to be swimming with Whale sharks in the Philippines. Nothing quite prepares you for that mouth swimming towards you and then gliding straight past without so much as a second glance at the curious human in it’s territory! Watch out, this diving lark is addictive – and yes I did get to swim with dolphins!!!

Lizzie Gerard - OWSI - Instructor - Whilst on holiday in Greece I took the plunge and decided to try a tri dive, I loved every minute of it and realised that I wanted to make a career of it.
In 2006 I went to Port Elizabeth, South Africa on a Open Water to Divermaster programme. I thoroughly enjoyed the experiance and when I came bach to the UK I was hooked and I decided I wanted to be an Open Water Scuba Diving Instructor! I am happiest when in the water and have even picked up the nickname Dori! I am also keen to spot a seahorse - race you to them Steve and Anya!

Jason Linbourne - OWSI Instructor - Since returning from a holiday in Turkey in 2009 I have been hooked on diving after a 25 year break. I dived many years ago as a BSAC diver but since my return to diving I have worked my way up the PADI ladder to be in a position to help with students in training which is one of the most satisfying feeling's one can have.  Every dive is my best dive because every dive is a new experience.  I a m looking forward to diving in the NASA traing facility in 2011 to see and experiance why astranaughts use diving as a weightless training enviroment.

Sonia Narayan - OWSI - Instructor- Adam and I did our Open Water Course in Egypt in 1999. I was hooked from the very first dive and I knew straight away that I wanted to be an Instructor when I grew up! Since then we have dived all over the world in some very exotic locations - Fiji, Indonesia, Africa, India and Mexico to name but a few. We have also done a lot of diving around the the UK coast and I did all my Divemaster and Instructor here, despite holding the coveted title of 'Diver Most Scared of the Cold/ Dive Club Wimp!' I am at my happiest surrounded by sharks (preferably with a camera in my hand) and take every available opportunity to infect as many people as possible with the diving bug! I take marine conservation very seriously and hope that my passion for this comes across when I teach and encourages others to dive responsibly, wherever in the world it may be.

Anya Frampton - Assistant Instructor - Retail Manager and Event Co-Ordinator - I learnt to dive in 2006 and rapidly realised during my first open water dive that I was hooked- so much wonderful marine life to see. I have enjoyed a number of wonderful dives. Highlights include: watching a lobster catch and eat tea on the Far Mulberry immediately after completing Open Water, the large turtle snacking on coral at Abu Soma, Safaga; swim past by an Angel Shark at Palma de Mare, Tenerife. I have a list of marine life I hope to see top of the list has to be seahorses so look for me in the weed.

Adam Bone - Divemaster - When Sonia and I first learned to dive in Hurghada, we were amazed by the colourful and enchanting new world revealed to us. But, we also cherish the memory of taking those first exhilarating underwater breaths with a group of like-minded and fun-seeking people. Since then we've been diving all over the world, seen schools of fifty hammerheads, had sea lion pups nibble our fingers and hovered motionless as a twelve metre whale shark swan around us, satisfying his curiosity as to what we were. On top of that we've made many friends, abroad, in London and now on the South coast too. Being a Divemaster is a great way of getting regular diving but it also gives me the opportunity to help others begin their SCUBA journey. Every happy, smiling diver reminds me of how much fun it is to learn to dive and makes me think of all the great dives yet to come.

Alan Rines - Divemaster - I first dived over 35 years ago, whilst on holiday in the South of France. I  have been a PADI Divemaster for over 10 years during which time I've  helped  hundreds of people to discover  the amazing world that diving offers. I have been lucky enough to have dived all over  the world including Bali, Hawaii, and Florida, France, Sardinia, the Greek Islands, Turkey, Cyprus, Malta, Tunisia, oh and then of course the Red Sea. Hundreds of dives , many amazing locations, however if I had to pick the one dive that I would love to repeat it would be here at Selsey on the Far Mulberry  when we dived at sunset and surfaced a magical hour later under a perfect September moon. As a Mulberry Divemaster I get the opportunity not only to share good memories but also to help make them - how good is that?"

Justin Evans - Divemaster - I started diving in 1998 and can still vividly remember my open water dives at Stoney Cove – mostly as it was a freezing cold, snowy weekend in February and I was wearing a semi-dry.....chilly!  In 2000 I took a year off to go travelling and spent the first month in Honduras doing my Divemaster internship.  Since then I’ve been fortunate to dive throughout Central America, Florida Keys, Mexico, New Zealand, Malaysia, Turks & Caicos, Red Sea, Turkey, Malta and of course the UK.  I’m a conservation biologist for my day job, so no real surprise that I’m interested in marine life too!  I’m a Seasearch diver and it’s a great way of diving new sites and seeing new things while also gathering valuable data.  I’m looking forward to the monthly Seasearch dives under the Lifeboat Station this year and it will be interesting to see the changes as the year progresses.  My best dives (so far!) would be the Corn Islands off Nicaragua (good marine life and virtually no other divers); Sipidan (I can still recall the sound of 40 Bump-head Parrotfish eating coral – I heard them long before I saw them); Raglans Reef and Vase Rock, Cornwall (vast swathes of jewel anemones and other marine life, making the rock look like a painter’s pallet).  

Trish Tan - Divemaster - I started diving in 2004.  I was quickly hooked and diving on holidays was no longer enough so I started diving in the UK.  My most memorable dives would have to be: Hammerhead sharks in Sharm, Oceanic Whitetips on Elphinstone and Mantas in Bali.  My first UK dive was off Chesil Beach and it still is the BEST UK dive I've done!  We saw feeding Cuttlefish, a John Dory and a Triggerfish!  My favourite creatures would have to be sharks and nudibranchs.  I am never happier than when I am underwater!  Specialities? Well, that would have to be laughing underwater!

Richard Welch - Divemaster - I took up scuba diving back in 2005 after returning from a holiday in Florida where I swam with dolphins and snorkelled around a man made reef full of different types of fish and aquatic life. I was hooked and did not want to stay at the entry level of Open Water Diver. So over the last three years I moved forward to Rescue Diver and then Divemaster. Primarily a UK diver my best dives to date are: Selsey Lifeboat Station which has a lot to offer every level of diver, sea life is everywhere and each time you dive this location its different; the Far Mulberry located 2miles off shore at Pagham an amazing dive site for every level of diver, offering a great place to see large shoals of fish life in and around the wreckage; Countess of Erne located within Portland Harbour my best wreck dive to date, which got me hooked on wreck diving. My future goals: To move forward into the professional realms within diving, whilst focusing on more wreck diving and underwater photography as for where to dive next? it’s not where you dive next, it’s the fact that your diving there that counts.

Robert Witham - Divemaster - I spent nine years in the Royal Navy.  I got into diving after a try dive on the Great Barrier Reef the next stop was the open water course at Horsea Island and a huge reality check.  However I was then totally hooked. I love all aspects of diving and and am fascinated by the creatures big and small of our underwater world.  I have dived in Corsica, Gran Canary, Cyprus, Thailand and Egypt, but get the most enjoyment from our own local UK diving.  I dive all year round here in the UK am particularly interested in wreck diving.  The history and challenge of the wrecks in our own local waters really do it for me, plus they are teaming with underwater life.  The best dives I have done here in the UK are the Kyarra and M2,  Australian Hospital ship and submarine off Dorset.  Abroad would be Chumphon Pinnacle of Ko Tao in Thailand where we were surrounded by Bull Sharks and the wreck of the Zenobia in Cyprus.  Recently I have learned to use a twin set and completed Tec 40.  Scapa Flow, Malta and El Gouna are future holiday destinations

Sandra Beeny - Advanced Open Water- Part Time Retail Assistant - A recent recuit to the world of diving I passed my Open Water Diver Course in 2009. My very first dive introduced me to the Tompot Blennie - our company logo! Currently working my way around some of the great sites this part of the coast has to offer I would love to see the rays that frequent these waters.

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