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The Team

If you see any of these couple of strange looking people tying reels to the office door so they don't get lost coming back from the bar be sure to say hello! This is the Bans Tec Team

Craig Werger
Jeffrey Glenn

Craig diving"Before dive instruction, Craig Werger was working as a technician and avid outdoorsman. He is a Journeyman Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic by trade and finnished his Apprentiship with Okanagan University College in 2007. Craig worked for Caterpillar dealerships for 6 years in both Canada and Australia troubleshooting and overhauling diesel engines, transmissions, powertrain, high pressure hydaulics and machine electronic systems. He completed Caterpillar dealership training in hydraulics, hydraulic excavators, machine electronic controls, Helicopter transport; rigging and lifting. Craig was recongnized with first place in skills Canada Competition for automotive service 2003 and 2004. With these skills and a good base of diver instruction, you're gauranteed to learn the in's and out's about technical operations and tecnical diving through Craig!"

Certification:

  • IDC Staff Instructor
  • Tec Rec Deep Instructor
  • Cavern Instructor
  • TDI Intro Cave Instructor
  • TDI Full Cave Instructor
  • TDI Stage Cave Instructor
  • TDI Underwater Cave Surveying Instructor
  • Tec Rec Gas Blender Instructor
  • Atlantis/Dolphin Rebreather Instructor
  • Emergency Oxygen Provider Instructor
  • Equipment Specialist Instructor
  • Enriched Air Instructor
  • Deep Instructor
  • Night Diver Instructor
  • Underwater Navigator Instructor
  • Wreck Instructor
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy Instructor
  • Project Aware Instructor
  • AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Sp Instructor
  • Care for Children w/AED Instructor
  • EFR Instructor

Jeff divingJeffrey Glenn is a PADI Course Director and Technical Diving Instructor Trainer originating from Queensland, Australia and has been blessed to have over 20 years of experience in the dive industry having worked and dived in both the Great Barrier and Ningaloo reefs in Australia, all throughout the Indonesian archepalego, the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, The Mediterranian, The Red Sea in Egypt, Borneo and the tropical waters of Thailand.

Jeff is one of the most experienced and active instructor trainers on Koh Tao having mentored hundreds of instructors and Technical divers during his career. Jeff is the only TecRecTrimix Instructor Trainer on Koh Tao. This rating is held be only a handful of Course Directors worldwide and denotes a extremely high level of diving experience and knowledge. This makes Jeff very confident that he can provide you with the most comprehensive Professional and Technical instruction available.

Jeff has been diving since the early 90’s and has logged thousands of dives in differing environments from the wrecks in the gulf of Thailand, the depths of the Blue Hole, Dahab to the pristine reefs of Ningaloo, Western Australia. Jeff began his Professional career in Airlee Beach, Australia where he became a Divemaster. Realising from this experience, a love for diving and teaching, Jeff started travelling the world with some awesome dive trips and surf trips along the way then sat his Instructor Development Course in 2000 on the beautiful island of Koh Tao and began life as a PADI professional.

Over the past 10 years, Jeff has been teaching all levels of diving but now specializes on Professional level courses and Technical Diver Training, priding himself on the personnel attention and the highest level of quality instruction he delivers to each individual.

Certification:

  • PADI Course Director
  • EFR Instructor Trainer
  • TecRec Instructor Trainer TEC Deep
  • TecRec Instructor Trainer TEC 40-45-50
  • TecRec Instructor Trainer Trimix 65-90
  • PADI Sidemount Instructor Trainer
  • PADI Tec Sidemount Instructor Trainer
  • Emergency Oxygen Instructor Trainer
  • PADI Cavern Instructor
  • TDI Full Cave Diver
  • IANTD CCR Diver
  • BSAC Compressor Operator
  • Specialty Instructor Trainer in
    • Deep
    • EANx
    • Navigation
    • Naturlist
    • Search and Recovery
    • Night
    • Dry Suit
    • Digital Underwater Photography
    • Wreck
    • Project Aware
    • Multi level
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