Staff Biographies
Todd Stedl
Lead Instructor
Todd Stedl (PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor #184495) began
his professional dive career in 2002. He has worked with many dive instructors,
incorporating the best of their techniques into his own philosophy of
diving and dive instruction. See About Us for more information about
that philosophy.
Todd earned his Ph.D. in computational chemistry in 2003.
His passion for clearly explaining difficult concepts is illustrated
on his web site
about quantum mechanics (www.quantumintro.com),
and he brings that passion into every dive class he teaches. His teaching
experience encompasses
a diverse range of students, from demonstrating basic scientific concepts
to disabled preschool children, to teaching quantum mechanics to college
chemistry majors. His work experience covers everything from flipping
burgers and driving forklifts to managing people and projects at both
large and small technology companies.
Todd has more than 200 dives and
100 hours of bottom time in the chilly waters of the Pacific Northwest
and Northwest Montana. He loves diving in the Northwest
but is eager to expand his number of dives in the clear blue waters
of the tropics. His dive experience includes:
- Helping panicked divers
stay safe and getting them to gain composure under water.
- Diving in
conditions of zero visibility.
- Wreck diving in British Columbia and
the Caribbean.
- Drift diving in both mild and strong currents, ranging to more
than 4 knots.
- Numerous night dives, boat dives, nitrox dives, and
dives deeper than 100 feet.
- Laughing so hard under water that his
dive buddies could hear him 20 feet away.
Todd looks forward to diving with you and getting
you to enjoy diving as much as he does. |