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Jerry kitchens kitchens - masterinstructor
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 sugar hill GAJoined On: 1/8/2020
Last Login: 1/13/2020
Member Type: Instructor
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I fell in love with scuba diving my first session. After a year of getting certified I joined the body recovery team in Buford, Ga and helped find drowning victims. Still wanting more I found the VA would pay for my education to become a Deep sea diver, commercial diver, welder, burner, mapping. After that course they offered a PADI course to be an instructor. I completed both in 1976.
After teaching a few courses I went to work at a dive shop in College Park, Georgia.
2 years later we were contacted by the ga. state patrol to instruct 2 of their troopers.
these guys were sharp and eager to learn.
I had a wish to teach for PADI in Florida at Florida PADI college in Jacksonville, Florida and sent a resume. A week later I was asked to come down for an interview with Dr ROGER LLOYD.
I went down and Dr. Lloyd interviewed me at length.
2 weeks later they told me I was hired and to come down and get settled in.
Then my dream had come true. I got my dream job at PADI’s Florida college.
So within 10 years I was certified to teach Night diving, search and recovery, night diving, and several other courses.