Who We Are                             

Go Deep Scuba, your premium dive training facility in both Wanganui and Palmerston North, Manawatu.  The Wanganui branch is both SSI and PADI Dive shop and is a Project AWARE Go Eco Operator.  The Palmerston North shop is a SSI Dive centre that recognises all training completed by other dive agencies. 

 

You will receive top quality, safe and fun scuba dive training of all levels through to Instructor training.  Our friendly, experienced and professional team are waiting to answer your questions and with patience, alleviate your fears and anxieties, to ensure you enjoy your diving experience and are a confident and competent scuba diver . 

 

Whether you are learning to dive or you are an experienced diver, we have an active social dive club, taking dive trips around New Zealand and overseas.  Throughout the year we run many scuba diving refresher courses, try scuba programmes and get the kids involved in school holiday programmes.    

 

Go Deep Scuba was the winner of the ABN-AMRO Craigs Wanganui Business Awards "Leisure and Tourism Award" for 2008 and the "Micro Business Excellence" award in 2007.  Also winning the Project AWARE Foundation's Environment Achievement Awards for 2006 and 2007.

 

Your needs as a recreational diver are our prime focus.  If you have a busy work schedule or personal life, our courses are ultra flexible - so flexible in fact we have been described as being the gymnasts of the diving community.  We want you to have a great diving experience with Go Deep Scuba so  provide you with quality, safe and fun filled training.

 

All training is conducted in our classroom in Wanganui or Palmerston North where we provide some of the latest technology to bring your course in an easy to follow and to learn format. 

 

We use locally based facilities in both regions for the confined water sessions that need to be completed. For the open water portion of the training we travel away usually to Wellington. 

 

Meet The Crew:

Sharon Grant, SSI Instructor Trainer and PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer

Sharon is the owner of Go Deep Scuba and has been diving for nine years. Sharon is a SSI (Scuba Schools International) Instructor Trainer and PADI (Professional Association of Dive Instructors) Master Scuba Diver Trainer.  As a SSI Instructor Trainer, Sharon is only one of four women to have reached this level in New Zealand.  Sharon is very motivated and enthusiastic about all things diving, but in particular looking after and caring for the environment and getting more women involved in scuba diving.  Her other passion is Underwater Photography and many of her pictures can be found in the albums in the retail areas of both shops and in the photo gallery on this website. 

 

Sharon has three children and works between the Wanganui and Palmerston North branches in addition to dive training throughout the week and weekends. 

 

Sharon will be one of the Instructors taking your through your course requirements up to Instructor level. This includes Instructor crossover course, Advanced Open Water Instructor and DiveCon Specialist Instructor. 

 

Email Sharon : sharon@godeepscuba.co.nz

 

Sharon's Qualifications

  • SSI Instructor Trainer

  • PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer

  • Approved Filler of Gas Cylinders

  • Service Technician

Specialty Instructor Ratings

  • Deep Diver Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Underwater Navigator Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor - SSI

  • Wreck Diving Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Altitude Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Boat Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Shore diving/Waves, Tides & Currents Specialty Instructor - SSI

  • Marine ID Specialty Instructor - SSI / Underwater Naturalist Specialty Instructor - PADI

  • Multilevel Diver/Computer Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Dry Suit Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Oxygen First Aid Specialty Instructor - PADI

  • Search & Recovery Specialty Instructor- SSI and PADI

  • Night & Limited Visibility Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Hunting & Collecting specialty Specialty Instructor - SSI and PADI

  • Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor- PADI

  • Project Aware Specialty Instructor - PADI

  • Aware Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor - PADI

First Aid

  • Medic First Aid Facilitator/Independent Instructor

  • PADI Emergency First Response Instructor

 

Richard Jamieson, Technical Services Manager

 

Richard is our qualified Service Technician for a range of gear including Apollo, Sherwood, Aqualung, Atomic, Atlantis, Dive Rite,

Genesis, Mares, Dacor, Oceanic and Scubapro. He completes all our servicing needs for both Wanganui and Palmerston North. 

 

Richard is also an Approved Filler of Gas Cylinders and is a ERMA approved Periodic Scuba Cylinder Tester. 

 

Richard assists in the shop during the weekends and is also a very keen diver working towards his Divemaster qualification.

 

Email Richard: service@godeepscuba.co.nz

 

Ben Poulsen, PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor

Ben Poulsen a PADI Instructor has joined the team in the Palmerston North shop.  Ben originally began his diving career,

almost by accident.  During the start of the recession, Ben he found out he was to be made redundant from his job, so he

began to look for other options.  He was given the opportunity to join a full time scuba course and signed up.  After a

year training and diving, he qualified in March 2010 and sought employment.  Ben approached Go Deep Scuba in

April this year and started work, initially on a casual basis, before being taken on full time from the beginning of July. 

Ben enjoys all types of diving, but particularly likes wreck and night diving, as well taken part in the occasional scallop hunt. 

 

Ben's Qualifications:

  • PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor

  • EFR Instructor (Emergency First Response)

Specialty Instructor Ratings

  • PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor

  • PADI Underwater Navigation Specialty Instructor

  • PADI Multilevel Diver Specialty Instructor

  • PADI Boat Diver Specialty Instructor

  • {ADI Oxygen Provider Specialty Instructor

Email Ben: ben@godeepscuba.co.nz

 

David Lindsay, SSI Dive Control Specialist

David is currently employed on a part time basis. David is a very keen diver who enjoys hunting and collecting.  David has

been diving for four years and is loves being underwater. 

 

David is mainly in the Wanganui shop and is keen to help you with any of your diving related enquiries. David is also

part of our technical services team. 

 

David's qualifications:

  • SSI Dive Control Specialist

  • Service Technician

 

Troian Grant, Open Water Diver & Retail Assistant

Troian is a High School student who assists in the shop after school and during school holidays.  Troian has been diving for three years and is currently an Open Water diver.  She is hoping to complete her Advanced course during the coming year.  Troian is very

passionate about animals and in particular endangered species.

 

Email Troian: troian@godeepscuba.co.nz

 

 

Campbell Jamieson, Advanced Open Water Diver & Retail Assistant

Campbell has been diving for 5 years.  He assists in the shop in Palmerston North on Saturday mornings. 

Campbell is an Approved Filler of Scuba Cylinders and is a very keen underwater photographer. 

 

 

We would love to see you at Go Deep Scuba and if you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

        

Testimonials

"At the beginning of my Instructor's course, I felt challenged.  After having been through the course, passed the final evaluations, I feel liberated

and qualified, all with the friendly "Instructorship" of my Instructor Trainer, Sharon Grant.  Thank you muchly.  Richard Barker, OWI 35866

 

 

"Our senior students have worked with the team at Go Deep Scuba for the past two years, gaining their open water diving certificate

as well as NCEA credits for their physical education courses. Our instructor Sharon did a fantastic job of putting nervous students at

ease and was an expert at making each lesson fun and as informative as possible. She consistently went out of her way to make sure

that our students mastered all of the skills necessary before undertaking their first open water dive. She is a great communicator,

teacher and motivator. It is clear to see she is passionate about all aspects of diving, including teaching others.

 

It was fantastic to see the change in many of the students from giggling and nervous their first time in the pool, to confident and

careful divers; respectful of the underwater environment.

 

Our thanks extend to Sharon, Tracey and Anthony, for helping to make our first diving experiences positive, inspirational and

above all, safe! I know our students have gained some important life skills as well as accomplished some personal goals that

will remain with them forever." Alicia Johnson, Wanganui Girls’ College.

 

 

                                                                                                                                             

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