Meet Our Team in Lexington, KY

Area Director

Although Chelsea has been diving since 2007, she has been involved in the scuba industry her entire life with her parents owning and operating SeaVentures for 31 years. After receiving her Business degree while playing collegiate volleyball, she explored her passion for working in bakeries. However, she found herself back at the family business pursuing her dive professional certifications and eventually worked her way through most of the swim, scuba, and marketing roles then into management. Since becoming a dive pro and running the Alpharetta location, she has traveled the world sharing her passion and excitement for the underwater world and visited amazing places like Bonaire where she even attended kids camp growing up each summer to Galapagos with the most advanced and incredible diving yet. She loves to teach and grow open water students into great divers and loves the opportunity to travel to new places making memories and sharing experiences with you!

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Store Director

Charlynn has dedicated her career to scuba diving, with decades of experience in instruction, operations, and leading trips around the world. She owned and operated Gone Diving in Bellingham, Washington, for nearly 20 years, where she trained countless divers and built a thriving dive community. Passionate about helping others gain confidence underwater, she loves creating memorable experiences through education and adventure. Outside of diving, Charlynn enjoys martial arts, fitness training, and exploring new destinations above and below the surface.

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Aquatics Experience Lead

Sarah loves all things water and has a passion for teaching. She has been a lifeguard, a water safety instructor and a registered behavior technician at an ABA therapy clinic. Sarah chose to work at Diventures so she could combine her skills to provide quality swim lessons to individuals of all ages and abilities.

Phone: 859.277.6349
Email: [email protected]

Independent Open Water Diver Instructor
Level 7 Diver

Allen started diving in his 40s. After getting certified, he traveled the Caribbean diving the different islands and loved every minute of it. In 2018 he took the next step and became a Dive Pro. Today he is an Open Water Instructor, Level 7 Diver, trip leader, and an equipment technician. His goal is to help others experience the same love and respect for the water that he has in a safe fun way.

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Independent Assistant Instructor

Beth has been diving since 2014 and loves that it has taken her on adventures all around the world! Her husband is also a dive professional, so they thoroughly enjoy the sport together. She has logged over 200 dives and looks forward to many more with her students.

Independent Open Water Diver Instructor

Brad was certified as a junior open water diver in 2000 at the age of 15 and was immediately hooked. The more dives he made, the more it became his passion to share the unique experience of the underwater world with others! He became an open water instructor in 2015. He finds joy in seeing the expression on everyone’s face as they experience breathing underwater for the very first time. Brad looks forward to being able to work with even more future divers at Diventures!

Independent Divemaster

Butch has been diving since 2014. He started diving because he was interested in aquatics and adventure. He continued through the recreational levels of certification with an interest and desire to assist others. Butch became a Divemaster to help others and improve their skills.

Phone: 859.621.5160

Swim Teacher
Lifeguard Instructor

Ella, our American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor, has been with us since the fall as a swim teacher. She has excelled at embracing our mission and core value that safety is our number one priority—while still making learning fun!

Ella has played an important role in building our community by helping train new, skilled lifeguards who will help keep our waterways safe this summer.

Independent Open Water Instructor

Ethan has been diving since 2015 but his love for the water extends back as far as he can remember. As a retired swimmer, lifeguard, swim lessons instructor, and pool manager he really feels at home in the pool or at the ocean and loves getting to introduce people to the underwater world – look for him around a pool deck or helping lead a Diventures trip somewhere sunny and warm!

Phone: 859.277.1234

Independent Divemaster Instructor

Gary started diving during the Spring of 2007. His first dive trip was to Hawaii and then the Galapagos where he discovered his passion for diving. He was so impressed with diving that he partnered with a colleague to teach a Coral Reef Ecosystems course in Utila, Honduras in January 2009. Gary completed his instructor’s certification in 2010. He enjoys working with beginning divers and underwater photography students. Diventures Lexington helps him keep up to date with the latest and greatest in diving. He also finds that being a member of such a diverse group provides exposure and resources to all things diving.

Independent Open Water Instructor

My first job at age 17 was at my local swimming pool, and I’ve enjoyed working around water ever since! I became a diver in 2008 and worked my way to becoming a professional in 2015. Scuba is such an important part of my life. I even proposed to my now wife at the dive shop, where she is also a dive professional.

Independent Assistant Instructor

Kerry has been diving since 1992 and started his dive pro journey in 1996. His favorite place to dive is the caves of north Florida. He says that it’s the most relaxing and intensely focused diving imaginable. Kerry enjoys assisting fellow divers of all levels. He thinks a good diver is always learning!

Independent Assistant Instructor Trainer

Growing up in Arizona, Lou did not get a lot of chances to dive. But when he was 14 years old he became certified at scout camp in the Florida Keys. After that, he earned more recreational certifications each year during vacations until he turned 18 and became a professional. As a professional, Lou worked as a scuba instructor in Florida and California for several years. Eventually, he earned a 50-ton Masters (Captains) license and managed a scuba diving charter in San Diego. Lou is an SSI level 9 diver and has instructed hundreds of students since 2005 on all aspects of diving. He loves inspiring confidence and teaching students self-reliance. He enjoys confined pool classes for new divers just as much as training fellow dive professionals.

Phone: 859.277.1234
Email: [email protected]

Independent Divemaster Instructor

Randy is a level 8 diver who began scuba diving in 1988, logging dives in Aruba, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, the Cayman Islands, Cozumel, St. Martin, St. Croix, Roatan, Turks & Caicos, and inland and coastal waters throughout the United States. He is certified as a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and SSI Divemaster Instructor, and also is a former faculty advisor to the Northern Kentucky University Scuba Club. Randy enjoys working with beginning divers, and also teaching specialties such as drift diving, deep diving, wreck diving, and underwater photography and videography.