Summer Scuba Camp Staff
Interested in joining our 2022 team? Please contact us for more details.
Scott Davenport, Owner, has a BS in Marine Fisheries Biology from Texas A&M University. He holds multiple Recreational, Technical, and Cave Instructor ratings with SDI/TDI, PADI and NASE. He taught recreational SCUBA courses, American Academy of Underwater Sciences scientific diving course, and was the Interim Diving Safety Officer at Texas A&M University. After moving to Florida, Scott was the Program Director for a summer camp. Most recently he was the founder and Director of an extremely popular SCUBA program at a Florida private school. He has over 15 years of summer camp experience and leading expeditions like these. Scott enjoys teaching people of all ages the value of safe and environmentally friendly scuba diving.
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Jennifer Davenport, Director, has a MSc in Biology from Texas A&M University and a BS in Marine Biology from Ohio University. She has over 20 years of diving experience, many of which she served as a Dive Master assisting scuba classes with children and young adults. She has over 10 years experience working with children of all ages as a gymnastics instructor and an environmental education instructor at various camps located throughout the country. For the past 10 years she has worked as an Aquatic Biologist identifying and describing species of aquatic invertebrates from both marine and freshwater systems including many of Florida's pristine springs. She enjoys exploring and hiking around Florida's springs and trails with her family.
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Patrick Hales, Program Director / SCUBA Instructor, is originally from England and has lived and traveled all over the world. He has been diving since he was six years old and has completed many dives ranging from the warm tropical waters of the Florida Keys and springs, to the dark and cold waters of European quarries. Patrick is an SDI and PADI instructor and holds numerous recreational and technical dive certifications including cave diver. Patrick has been a part of Earth Immersion for 8 years, since he was in high school. The past 6 years he has worked alongside Scott educating young individuals about the safe, proper way to scuba dive and the natural wonders of North Central Florida. Besides teaching scuba, Patrick has spent time volunteering on the remote island of Montserrat, where he carried out reef surveys for an award-winning NGO specializing in marine conservation. Most recently he has spent time in Dubai teaching scuba classes during breaks from his university studies. When Patrick isn’t diving, he is finishing up his masters degree in physical oceanography at Bangor University, Wales, U.K.
Linda Stevens, Scuba Instructor, has a BS in Marine Biology and a minor in Diving Technology and Methods from Texas A&M University. She has enjoyed diving for the past 6 years in all sorts of environments from recreational lakes and the crystal clear Caribbean to the caverns in North Central Florida. She also enjoys spending her free time as a volunteer diver at Moody Gardens Aquarium and NOAA. She has experience as a diver working at the Houston Downtown Aquarium and with Space Center University. Now currently working as a High School Science Teacher, she loves being outdoors and enriching others lives through hands on educational experiences.
Brittany Schutte, Activities Coordinator, has been a PE teacher and softball coach with Oak Hall School in Gainesville, FL for the past 6 years. She is originally from Fountain Valley, CA and moved to the Gainesville area on a softball scholarship for the University of Florida, where she still holds batting records. Brittany was member of the USA Women’s softball team and most recently was a gold medal winner with the USA Women’s baseball team. She has a B.A. in Sociology with minor in Educational Studies from the University of Florida and a Masters in Physical Education from University of South Florida.