Darrell Seale: Scuba Diving Credentials
Darrell Seale is a highly accomplished scuba instructor: a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and SDI instructor certified to teach every recreational course from Open Water through Master Scuba Diver, the Divemaster professional course, and 38 specialties, with technical certifications in cave, trimix and closed-circuit rebreather diving.
For his teaching, technical diving and adaptive-diving work, visit Darrell Seale Scuba Diving.
Recreational courses
Certified to teach every PADI recreational level.
Professional course
Certified to teach the PADI Divemaster course, the first professional level.
Instructor ratings held
His own PADI instructor qualifications. These are ratings he holds, not courses he teaches.
Specialty instructor ratings
PADI specialties link to PADI’s own articles about each course (or its course page where PADI has no article), and distinctive specialties (written by individual instructors and approved by PADI) link to PADI’s distinctive specialty page. SDI courses link to the agency’s course page.
- Adaptive Techniques
- Altitude
- Boat
- Cavern
- Coral Reef Conservation (AWARE)
- Coral Health (CoralWatch)
- Deep
- Delayed Surface Marker Buoy
- Digital Underwater Photography (Levels 1 and 2)
- Disabled Dive Assistant (PADI, SDI)
- Disabled Surface Assistant (PADI, SDI)
- Dive Against Debris
- Diver Propulsion Vehicle
- Drift
- Dry Suit
- Enriched Air (Nitrox)
- Equipment Specialist
- Fish Identification
- Full Face Mask
- Underwater Hunter
- Ice
- Invasive Lionfish Tracker
- Multilevel
- Underwater Naturalist
- Underwater Navigator
- Night
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Underwater Photographer
- Scubility (SDI)
- Sea Turtle Awareness
- Search and Recovery
- Self-Reliant Diver (PADI) / Solo Diver (SDI)
- Semi-Closed Rebreather
- Shark Conservation (AWARE)
- Whale Shark Awareness
- Wreck
- Underwater Videographer
Technical diving
Instructor history
- Independent instructor2000 – present
- Affiliate instructor, LifeWaters (501(c)(3) nonprofit)2019 – present
- Co-founder, vice president and instructor, Patriot Divers (501(c)(3) nonprofit)2013 – 2018
- Instructor, Divers 4 Heroes (501(c)(3) nonprofit)2010 – 2013
- Instructor and Divemaster, Miami Valley School of Diving (PADI 5-Star)1999 – 2000
- Divemaster, Sea-Topia Pro-Divers (PADI 5-Star)1998 – 1999
Other diving
- Board of directors and director of training and safety, Lockheed Martin Dive Club2009 – 2013
- Diver of the Year, Lockheed Martin Dive Club2011
- Underwater judge, MATE International Underwater Robotics Competition2012
- Field research coordinator, Divers Alert Network Project Dive Exploration1999 – 2005
- Whale shark video published by The National2020