Owner and Director of Training
John is a retired U. S. Army Lieutenant Colonel (FA) and 80% disabled Sergeant of the U.S. Marine Corps (Vietnam Service 1967-68) with over 29.5 years of military service.
He is a Master Scuba Instructor with several dive training agencies and a SSI Instructor Trainer as well as for Disabled Divers International (DDI). He started Texas Dive Center in August of 2012 to provide the best scuba services, training and adventures in the region. He first started diving in Maine in 1973 with a YMCA certification to do search and recovery as well as ice diving, along with gathering scallops for the family freezer. He teaches Public Safety diving and is certified as a Underwater Criminal Investigator.
John is also a Scuba Pro Expert Equipment Technician as well as being manufacturer trained for TUSA, Mares, Oceanic, Cressi and Ocean Technology Systems (OTS) full face masks service and repairs. John is a DOT cylinder re-tester for hydro static testing of cylinders.
As a SSI Platinum 1000 Instructor he was inducted into the Platinum Pro 5000 Diver Foundation in 2018 and with over 6000 life time logged dives you won't find many in the region that compare. Wreck diving being one of his favorite forms of diving, it is no surprise that he holds the SSI Advance Wreck Diver Specialty Instructor rating. There simply is no better person to learn from in the region when it comes to scuba diving.
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Torill "Rita" MillerSpecialty & Assistant Instructor, ReactRight InstructorTorill is the wife of our owner and has been diving for 10+ years and married to John since 1968 when he returned from service in Viet Nam. She is an Assistant Manager and ScubaPro Technician as well. A expert quilter, she joins John traveling the world of scuba diving. Torill holds a Masters in Math from Texas Tech University and is a retired math teacher having taught in both Midland and Lubbock. |
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Bryon Freeman
Bryon leads our team of Instructors as an Advanced Open Water Instructor teaching in Amarillo, TX for us. He is very active in the Boy Scout Council in the Panhandle. |
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Crystal Liming
Crystal teaches Open Water Diver training and several Specialty Courses as well as being a ReactRight Instructor in the Permian Basin. |
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Josh Proctor
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Bart Tatom
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Dusti Eggeling
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Brian Sullivan
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Tyler Hoskins
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John Foster
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Austin Bond
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Kent Womack
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Robert "Bubba" Smith
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