About Us Meet the Diving Enterprises Team

DIVING ENTERPRISES, Ltd. was established in 1983 with the aim of providing high quality service to the scuba diving community throughout southwest Virginia. As a PADI 5 Star IDC Center, DIVING ENTERPRISES has gained not only the respect from the industry locally, but now has a long_standing reputation in the diving community worldwide. As southwest Virginia's premier scuba diving facility, we offer quality service for the recreational, technical and professional diving community.

With exotic trips to the Caribbean, Mexico, Gulf,  Galapagos, Pacific, and more, we give you the best diving, not only in the US, but all around the world.  In_country trips can show you the fun of diving Florida Springs and Coasts, North Carolina Wrecks, the Great Lakes, California Kelp and numerous other locations.  Locally we dive Pepper's Ferry, Lake Phoenix, Summersville Lake, South Holston Lake, Eggleston Springs, and many more sites both fun and close by.

With over 150 years of combined experience, aand over 8,000 certified divers, we guarantee the highest standards of quality in terms of teaching, safety and services.

So start your PADI Adventure with us today, get diving and change your life.Our dynamic team is here to assist you step by step...What are you waiting for?

Our MEMBERS

Ken Dunker

Owner / Instructor

 

Qualifications:	Store Owner, Course Director, Scuba Instructor, Parachute Rigger, Skydiver, Pilot
Types of Instruction:	PADI
Total Dives:	9000+
Started Diving:	Jul 01, 1968
Additional Info:	Additional Info: The Course Director rating is the equivalent of having a postgraduate degree in scuba diving instruction, there is not a more prestigious level of certification within the dive industry. Best dives: Cave diving in Akumal, wreck diving the Andrea Doria.

 

 

 

Mary Dunker

Owner / Instructor

Qualifications:	Store Owner, OWSI, MSDT, IDC Staff, Cave Diver, Technical Diver, Equestrian
Types of Instruction:	Scuba, DiveMasters, Assistant Instructors,
Total Dives:	1200+
Started Diving:	Apr 15, 1994
Additional Info:	Some of her favorite dives: Cave Diving Akumal, Darwin's Arch Galapagos, Any sites in Bonaire

Jim Tuite

Instructor

Qualifications: OWSI, MSDT

Types of Instruction:
Open Water, Rescue, Divemaster, Emergency First Response

Total Dives: About 500

Started Diving: Dec. 3, 1977

Additional Info:
Best Dives: Red Sea, Morehead City, NC
Member of the Maritime Heritage Chapter of the Virginia Archaeology Society. (interested in underwater archaeology).

Political Science lecturer at Central Virginia Community College.

Kamran Razvan

Instructor

Mark Rutherford

Instructor

Matt Wngfield

Instructor

Mike French

Instructor

 

Qualifications:	Instructor, Pilot
Types of Instruction:	PADI
Total Dives:	about 500
Started Diving:	2004
Additional Info:	I particularly enjoyed the diving in Turks and Caicos. As to a favorite single dive, I'd have to cite when Kara and I were in Saba on a night dive. She drew my attention to what looked like a huge, dead, silver fish that was lying on a rock. I wondered why she was pointing out this four-foot carcass to me when I saw the "rock" slowly move. It took me a few moments to realize that this "rock" was the most enormous turtle I'd ever seen, and the "dead fish" was a remora who had sucked himself onto the turtle to pick up his meal scraps. My very first dive at Wolf Island, Galapagos. During our check-out dive, the sea lions came in to play with us. They reminded me of puppy dogs that were excited about everything. They swam in and out of our bubbles, nipped at our fin tips, and came right up to our faces to inspect us. Definitely a very memorable dive!

 

 

 

Walter Grigg

Instructor

 

Qualifications:	OWSI, MSDT, Cave Diver, Techncal Diver, Research Diver
Types of Instruction:	Scuba Instructor, DiveMaster
Total Dives:	2600+
Started Diving:	Jun 12, 1995
Additional Info:	Best Dive: Diepolder Cave System, Little River - Most interesting project: Research diving in South Holston Lake  I most enjoy helping new students find that “lightbulb” moment; when they go from fighting the water to being at one with the water..  You can actually see a wave of relaxation wash across them when they realize, in that moment, what diving is “really” all about…

 

 

Chad Fields

Divemaster

James Wooten

Shop Staff

James

Stephanie Young

Shop Staff