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What are your levels of training?: Instructor, Technical Diver, Overhead Diver, Rebreather

Favorite Dive Sites (water, not internet): The California Shoreline, Monterey, CA; Tulum, Mx

Your personal website:: http://www.unifiedteamdiving.com

About me:: Jeff learned to dive in 1990 in preparation for assisting on a series of underwater filmmaking workshops in the Caribbean. He went on to dive extensively in the warm waters around the Virgin Islands and the [very] cold waters of upstate New York lakes. He is now a technical diver and UTD instructor. Jeff co-owns UTD with Andrew Georgitsis.

After relocating to Los Angeles in 2003, Jeff discovered the Southern California ocean and began exploring the Pacific coast. He loves to dive the deep areas of the Channel Islands and Monterey coastline. He is also a diving volunteer with the Santa Monica Baykeepers working to rebuild our local kelp forests.

Jeff has been teaching adults all his life. He spent two decades running filmmaking classes at the International Film and TV Workshops and the Rockport College and One On One Film Training, a consulting company working with emerging directors. Jeff is a Certificated Flight Instructor and spent many years teaching and competing in competition aerobatics.

If you are an Active Status UTD Instructor, what classes do you teach?: OW, Rec 1, Rec 2, Rec 3, Essentials of Rec, Essentials of Tech, Tech 1/2, Nitrox, Rescue, Scooter, Scubatics, Dive Master, Instructor Trainer

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New Instructors in Spain

Posted on October 15, 2011 at 3:05am 2 Comments 4 Likes

We now have two new UTD instructors in Spain. Mike Van Splunteren and Roland Bozo from Octopus Mallorca Dive Center in Mallorca completed their IDC's this week at Rivemar Dive Center in La Azohia. It was a great week of endless diving, dry runs, lectures, and late night dinners. Please join me in welcoming them to the UTD Instructor Corps. …

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New Maryland Instructors

Posted on September 21, 2011 at 4:00pm 1 Comment 3 Likes

Please join me in welcoming our three newest instructors: Jon Edwardsen, Tanya Kuck, and Chris Neidhart of their dive shop: Submerged in Rockville, Maryland.

These guys began the process of becoming UTD instructors several months ago and spent this week in an intense foundational IDC. They all did a great job and we're happy to have them aboard.

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Welcome Our Newest UTD Instructor: Paul Okishev

Posted on March 28, 2011 at 3:57pm 6 Comments 1 Like

Please join me in welcoming Paul Okishev to the UTD Instructor corps. Paul divides his time between Florida and Russia and is joining us as a technical instructor. We had a long week filled with pool, ocean, and classroom, and we look forward to having Paul as part of the UTD team.…

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Welcome Our Newest UTD Instructors: Sacha and Casper

Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:03pm 7 Comments 1 Like

After an intense week of training at HQ in Carlsbad, we are happy to announce that we have two new UTD Foundational Instructors. Sacha Greene is now a UTD instructor at Ocean First Divers in Boulder, Colorado and will be teaching out of the shop with UTD Tech Instructor George Watson.

Also joining us is Casper Dreiøe of Copenhagen, Denmark. Casper is a cave-trained pSCR 2 diver and works for Dyk, the Scandavian Diving Magazine…

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UTD Welcomes our newest Open Water Instructor!

Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:18pm 10 Comments 0 Likes

Please join me in welcoming Hunter Lacey to the UTD Instructor Corps. Hunter completed his IDC at HQ in Carlsbad this week. He's based in Bozeman, Montana where there is a small but vital dive community. Hunter is a UTD Open Water Instructor, teaching Open Water, Rescue, Nitrox, and Dry Suit.

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At 10:46pm on June 2, 2011, Randy Tay said…: Jeff, I wanted to check out the free OW classes but where exactly do I enter the code? It just brings me to paypal...

At 12:43pm on April 13, 2011, Lewis H said…: Thank for the correction Jeff!

At 2:25pm on January 19, 2011, Jay Schier said…: Hey Jeff, I just wanted to touch base and see what the upcoming training schedule looks like.

At 4:35pm on December 29, 2010, David Murata said…: Hi Jeff,

Thanks for fine tuning my gear and for all your great instruction in teaching the "Essentials of Rec" class to a newly open water certified diver such as myself. The patience of you and your instructors during the past two days of class was incredible. With having done only 10 dives so far, the "Essentials" class has allowed me to walk away with a strong foundation of skills that I can practice and carry forward in all my future diving endeavors. Many thanks again.

Dave

At 2:31am on May 30, 2010, Kristof Damen said…: Happy Birthday Jeff!

At 3:19am on April 16, 2010, Skippy Thomas said…: Thanks Jeff for all your help. Look forward to diving the UTD way...Much appreciated
Skippy

At 2:13pm on January 27, 2010, jason j. park said…: Hi jeff. could you accept me to see mccr1,2,3 and drt mini, stage bottle mini materials?

At 8:03am on August 21, 2009, Hollywoodivers said…: Hey it's Hal I am going to do essientials online
how do I get some Utd t shirts For personal use?

At 10:05am on June 10, 2009, orenskoog said…: hey jeff, thanks so much - looks GREAT! nice work.

At 8:18am on April 25, 2009, john mcnally said…: I paid for the Ratio Deco class through paypal and then it simply sent me back to this website, how do i go about taking the online Ratio Deco course i have paid for, thank you.