Side Mount and Technical Diving

February Speaker    Casey Connell

Technical Diving 

Casey Connell PADI Course Director 

Casey Connell discovered scuba diving in 1968 and embraced it wholeheartedly — so much so that he retired from technology in 2002 and became a full-time instructor! “I fell in love with being underwater. It’s my passion and I live it every day. Besides, it beats designing a computer network,” he jokes.

As Casey tells it “At the age of 13, as a Boy Scout, my troop leader (ex Navy BUDS) offered scuba training to several scouts. This started my journey down the road. After college and time served, I found myself involved in Search and Recovery operations for county and state teams in Georgia. In 1996, I became a PADI instructor. In 2002, I stepped away from my corporate management lifestyle to pursue this incredible adventure.”

Since leaving high-tech, Casey has been certified by PADI to teach over 25 different specialties. He’s dived all over the world, including Mexico, Malaysia, the Red Sea and the Philippines. He particularly enjoys diving in over-head environments such as shipwrecks and caves.

Casey is a Certified as a Tec Rec diver and instructor.  PADI’s Tech offerings include over 20 courses from decompression diving, mixed gas diving, rebreather, sidemoung and many others.  Casy will fill us in on what it is like to be a Tecnical Diver and why we might want to pursue Technical Diving.

Tech Divers get to explore where few people can. As a technical diver, you would get to see amazing wrecks that are hidden away and untouched, as well as marine life that don’t live in your typical diving zone.