Meet our Staff

Captain Bob – Bob is originally from Florida where he instructed and dived for the Orange county Sheriff’s office Marine Patrol, fighting crime and saving lives for 20 years. He set up Oceans Unlimited in 2005 and is now enjoying the life style of PADI Dive Instructor and boat captain in Costa Rica. Bob is the guy that can fix anything and can often be found tinkering on a reg in the repair room.


Georgia - Our wonderful inhouse PADI Course Director and DSAT Tec Deep instructor Trainer. Georgia is from the UK and has been instructing in central America since 2004 and has also found her niche here at Oceans Unlimited and Go Pro Costa Rica. She also has the tiring job of being mum to dive dog, Damo.

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JT- Our new assistant instructor JT has recently joined us for the scuba life after retiring from the military. Now adjusting to his Pura Vida lifestyle in Costa Rica, he is looking forward to working towards his OWSI certification next year and scuba diving the beautiful warm waters of Manuel Antonio on a regular basis!

Jairo – Our resident Divemaster , originally from San Ramon. Joined us after completing his Divemaster at the National University. He enjoys studying and learning about the reef and all of its different inhabitants.

 

Ileana – Ileana started diving with Oceans Unlimited in 2009 when she did a DSD and was bitten by the “dive bug”. She steadily has worked her way up the PADI ladder and now has achieved her goal of PADI Divmaster. Ileana has been gaining more experience by helping on trips and will be divemastering this season! Go Ileana!

 

Oceans Unlimited Conservation OfficerKaitlin – Joining us from Kansas is Kaitlin. She originally came to complete her Divemaster training but impressed us so much with her enthusiasm and motivation to both diving and the environment that she is now working with us as our conservation officer. Currently finishing up her instructor course she will be spreading the Project Aware message and love for diving to everyone that comes and visits.

Sales and Office Team
Our friendly team are here to make you feel at home.  Paola will meet and greet you with a smile, and answer any of your enquiries about diving, equipment, courses or local hotels and activities.  She is helped out each day by our resident dive dog Damien, who is very friendly and loves to have his nose in EVERYTHING, especially BBQ’s!

The view from Above, An afternoon with the our boat captain…

January 13, 2012
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Jan, 12. working as skipper almost daily. This afternoon was amazing. 1st dive. Punto quepos. 35-65ft of water. 15 min. into dive. My self as capt. I was thinking of my divers and their safety!  as always, When I was startled by aloud noise. sounded like a scuba tank releasing  air. i jumped up, turned [...]

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“Whale of a time” Scuba diving in Manuel Antonio

January 9, 2012
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End to the first week of the new year and what a great week it has been! We have had beautiful waters, great diving and to finish it off this week we thought we would go deep diving. With some of our PADI divemaster trainees on the morning trip we decided to hit a couple [...]

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Crazy Christmas diving in Manuel Antonio – Costa Rica

December 30, 2011
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Wow, what a fun packed week. It truly was a fun Oceans Unlimited scuba diving christmas. With a great start, and lots of newly certified divers, we were definitely celebrating underwater. The water was showing us lots of fun stuff too with sightings of sharks, eagle rays, sting rays and even the ever elusive Guitar [...]

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New PADI Tec Rec Center

December 14, 2011
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Congratulations to Oceans Unlimited and Go Pro Costa Rica! We are officially the the only PADI Tec Rec Diving center in all of Costa Rica! We offer a wide range of technical dive courses, from basic nitrox , advanced Nitrox, Tec 40, 45 and 50 and Tec Rec Gas Blending certification. We even can certify [...]

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