Full Time Staff
Martin Ainsworth, Director of Instructor Development - PADI Course Director / EFR Instructor Trainer
Martin has been diving for over 20 years starting in the UK and then eventually doing his instructor exam in 1992. Since then Martin has been actively teaching in the UK and diving around the world in the Maldives, Australia, Bali, Borneo, Egypt, USA, Canada and the Philippines before reaching his goal of Course Director in 2003. Martin has set up dive centres in both the UK and Europe prior to developing and opening an inland dive site, the Blue Lagoon, which enabled him to map his experience in all aspects of diving into our Instructor Development Courses. Martin is currently focused on running an active instructor development calendar across our two dive centres in addition to developing our own distinctive specialty courses and teaching instructor courses for other centres in the UK, Malta, Turkey and Cape Verde. Martin has consistently achieved gold status within the Course Director frequent trainer program for the last three years teaching between 50 and 100 instructor courses a year, so if you are interested in any aspect of instructor development from Divemaster onwards, feel free to give him a call.
Sharon Ainsworth, Director of Training - PADI Course Director / EFR Instructor Trainer
As the training manager at Above & Below, Sharon strives to keep a professional and organised atmosphere whilst mentoring our new and enthusiastic instructors to provide a fun and exciting one. Having a Masters Degree in Aquatic Ecology Sharon is always focused on promoting the environmental awareness elements of our dive programs in addition to promoting and developing our academic programs for schools and universities. Sharon is always around so anything you want to know just ask....
Gen MacCallum, Training Manager - Master Instructor, Technical Dive Instructor & EFR Instructor Trainer)
After becoming an instructor with Above & Below Gen has run her own dive operations in both Turkey and the Philippines prior to returning to the UK and rejoining us a full time instructor. It’s easy to spot Gen, she will be the one wearing a fleece in the middle of summer!! It would be easier to say which specialties Gen does not teach instead of listing the ones she can. Gen is currently working on her Trimix & Rebreather Instructor training as someone said "its not for girls !" after becoming a Tech Deep Instructor.
Casual Staff
Other professionals (that we would be lost without)
• Master Instructors
• James Wright
• IDC Staff Instructors
• Mark Bostock
• Carl Shaw
• Fiona Wright
• Master Scuba Diver Trainers
• Steve Taylor
• Rob Green
• Open Water Scuba Instructors
• Daniel (Tonka) Toner
• Al Cunliffe
• Divemasters & EFR Instructors
• Simon Brooke
• Jane Brooke
• Divemasters
• Catherine Leng
• Debbie Cunliffe
• David Leng
• Trainee Divemasters
• Colin Ostler
• Gary Molson
• Paul Cartledge
• Gary Pearson
• Craig Jones
• Steve Perrin
• Ron Powell
• Gavin Smith
• Richard Wilks
• Denise Lyon
• Matt Coope
