Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of dive brief.
First of all thank you for your patience and waiting until today to receive your dive breif. After much deliberation Greg and I have decided to make some major changes here at Scuba Shack, we both feel that these changes will have a huge impact on Scuba Shack and believe that these changes are for the greater good. ….. do I have your attention???
Greg and I are very excited to introduce a new member of Staff …………….Clair Fahey. Lots of you will know Clair or maybe have seen her at the Haven teaching Open Water Courses for another Dive Shop in the area.
So what does this mean for Scuba Shack??? Well for one, Clair is probably the most Socialable person I know and this means social events galore! Scuba Shack Will be hosting many more club events, from photo nights, Marine Science talks, Cave Diving, Ice Diving, Travel, Wrecks as well as Trivia Nights, Photo Comps and general social nights. Clair will be in the shop Thursday – Friday and Saturday – Sunday either on course or leading dives. Lee will be concentrating on TDI Courses (Technical Diving) and Greg and myself will be concentrating more on growing the business!
I am sure you will all make Clair feel welcome by coming in to say hi to her
Clair grew up in the land locked country of Zimbabwe and as a kid was one of those girly girls who used to run screaming from the water if a piece of kelp touched her leg. This dislike for the water even carried through into her early adult life when her career started in one of Australias largest retailers where she worked for 8 years in a demanding management role of running several departments.
After a life changing experience, Clair decided she needed a “Sea Change” quite frankly took this literally. She moved to the peacefully town of Ulladulla and while sitting on the verandah of her beach house watching the whales and dolphins cruise by her she started to think about trying Scuba Diving! Her father had been a diver since the early 60’s and funnily enough this now sparked an interest.
Much to her father’s shock, Clair literally made the giant stride into Scuba completing her Open Water in 1987. Upon completion of the course she knew instantly she wanted to become an instructor and made that her goal. Over the next 8 or so years Clair made her way up the ranks and soon completed her DM Course and was offered a full time position with the largest chain of Scuba Stores in Sydney. Although she could have gone on and completed her Instructors straight away, she wanted to gain more experience and decided to continue to work as a DM for 2 years. She tagged along with every course that she could and ran all the club dives which she describes as an invaluable experience. When she finally did complete the Instructor Course in 1991, she knew she was completely ready and she took the challenge by the horns and ran with it!
Since then Clair has worked in various locations around Australia. For two and a half year she worked on the Fairstar Cruise Ship as a Dive Instructor and Scuba Technician and then in Cairns for 8 years as Live-aboard Dive Coordinator and Senior Instructor. Clair has more than 700 student diver certifications, with more than 170 achieved in the past 18 months. These include general recreational diver, specialist and dive master. To add to this she was the First Scuba Ranger Instructor Trainer in Australia through SSI. Since having her children Clair has worked part- time on and off with various other dive shops in Sydney and locally here on the Central Coast and now finally taken a position with Scuba Shack where we believe she will be a perfect fit. The piece we were missing you could say!
Both Greg and I are extremely excited to have Clair on board. Her achievements in the industry are nothing short of astounding and we believe we are very lucky to have nabbed such an interesting personality to work for Scuba Shack. We know you will all make her feel welcome!
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