Who We Are
Dave, Steve, Mike, Paul, Liam and Colin look after the admin side of the club.
Get in touch with them here: contact us.
Dave Howson
Diving Officer/Membership Secretary/Secretary
Dave has been diving since a try dive in Funchal, Madeira in 1991. He has been an active PADI member since 1994, currently Assistant Instructor #600491 and PSAI Extended Range Diver.
Dave is a chartered electrical and electronic engineer, working in product development for condition assessment tools for the electricity industry for more than thirty years.
Steve Barnard
Chairman/Treasurer/Lead Instructor
Steve's first dive was in 1994. He is both a rebreather and open circuit technical instructor with over 5000 logged dives. He holds Advanced Mixed Gas Instructor qualifications with both TDI and BSAC and is a PADI Master Instructor. He has been the BSAC Wales Regional Coach and remains an active Technical Instructor.
Steve has a background in Scientific Diving, Emergency Response and Marine Operations including Powerboat and Personal Watercraft training and is a commercially endorsed Advanced Powerboat Instructor. He is an active RNLI Atlantic 85 Lifeboat Helmsman and until recently was a Lifeboat Training Co-ordinator.
Mike Bailey
Socials and Events Officer
Mike started his diver training in 1984 with Vale Royal BSAC before transferring over to Northwich BSAC in 1985. He worked his way up to club instructor, and later he went on to complete technical courses such as Advanced Mixed Gas. Mike has completed over 1500 dives in the sea, lakes, lochs, canals, pits, rivers and anything else with water in it.
He started working for the GPO in 1979 and eventually worked his way up to senior engineer for BT in North and Mid Wales before retiring in 2020, he also started his own security business in 1987 which is still trading today.
Paul Turkentine
Site Support Officer
Paul started diving after a visit from Malcolm the plumber. After having a look at Malcolm's dive kit in the back of his van and after a long discussion and even more money Paul became a qualified “barely adequate” diver. It was possibly the most expensive thing that could ever have happened in his life as he has been paying for dive equipment ever since.
Paul has logged over 2000 dives and dives for fun and intends to keep it that way. To help with this and his other hobbies he is now retired and is enjoying the lack of responsibility. Paul is a highly experienced Dive Boat Skipper and gets in and on the sea whenever he can.
Liam Kenny
Access Coordinator: Sunday Diving
Liam started diving in 1990 and is a BSAC Advanced Diver along with also being a TDI Rebreather Diver. Liam has a lot of experience in Dorothea and is always happy to discuss diving in the quarry.
He is also a HSE Closed Bell diver along with being an Association of Diving Contractors Supervisor so has plenty of experience to draw from.
Colin Nicholls
Access Coordinator: Saturday Diving
Colin started diving in 2009 with PADI and in his own words, ‘was an avid badge collector’. Therefore he was super keen and did as much as he could, whenever he could to get wet and learn new skills.
Colin progressed to the dark side of CCR under IANTD & PADI and is just happy to be diving. He is still super keen and is a friendly face who you’ll no doubt meet when you are on site. Colin is an IT/Data Cabler during the week so looks forward to diving at the weekend. His challenge is to get wifi into the 104m tunnel.
