Meet The Team

Gareth Spurling

Gareth is the owner of AllWays Diving. He started AllWays Diving in April 1998. An SSI (Scuba Gareth

Schools International) Instructor Trainer and Certifier, has owned AllWays Diving since it was opened.

Gareth enjoys all levels of scuba diving from teaching Open Water Scuba Courses to leading scuba diving trips to places like Santo, the Solomon Islands, Truk and Fiji. He particularly enjoys photography on reef dives and diving the World War II ship wrecks found around the Pacific Ocean.

Gareth is certified to teach all levels of scuba diving including Open Water Courses, Specialties, Dive Controllers, Instructors, Specialty Instructors and Technical Diving.

Sheryl Morris

Sheryl is the not-so-silent partner at AllWays Diving. Sheryl does a great job looking after accounts and keeping the administration running smoothly.

Sheryl is an active team member assisting with the organistional side of running a growing business and creating ideas to help make AllWays Diving an enjoyable place for divers to partake their diving passions.

Sheryl has a remarkable knowledge of dive equipment, how it should be used and what type of equipment will suit a particular customer.

Joanna Wilkinson

Joanna. visited Allways Diving for many years with her partner. Jo started working part time with AllWays Diving in early 2007 when some help was needed around the shop.

Slowly Jo got sucked in and, after many years of saying “I won’t dive”, evolved from assisting with some admin tasks to certified diver and assisting with sales.

Jo now has the title of “Course and Trips Coordinator” and enjoys the challenge of matching customers’ requests to suitable dive trips.

Vladislav Skorin

Position	Instructor
Number of Dives	1723
Diving Certifications	CMAS Instructor** (Instructor - Master) SSI Advanced Open Water Instructor - (Specialties: Deep, Limited Visibility, Dry Suit, Ice, Wreck, Nitrox, Navigation)
Number of Years Diving Experience	25
Diving History (Locations ETC)	Rivers - Ob, Tom, Chialym Lakes, Ingol, Teploe, Salt Water - Black Sea, Japenese Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Andaman Sea, Red Sea, Coral Sea, Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean
Best Dive Experience	Red Sea and the Coral Sea
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	Work with professional staff, a chance for personal professional growth, friendly team.

Eric Wilkinson AllWays Diving

Eric Wilkinson

Position	Instructor
Number of Dives	400 + and Climbing
Diving Certifications	Scubaholic Open Water Instructor Working on Specialty Instructor First Aid Oxygen Provider Med Diver
Number of Years Diving Experience	10 Years + (with the odd dry year)
Diving History (Locations ETC)	New Zealand - Canterbury, Kaikoura, Queen Charlotte Sounds (Mikahel Lermontov), Wellington Harbour and surrounds, Bay of Islands. Vavau Tonga Many site around Brisbane including (but not only) Cherubs Cave, China wall, Gotham City, Flat Rock, Curtin Artificial Reef, Ex HMAS Brisbane, and of course, the Tweed River and Cook Island.
Best Dive Experience	Hmmm!!! - to choose only one! There are so many to choose from for so many different reasons! I love diving so I guess the best dive experience I have had has been sharing the first dive on many peoples' diving exploits and leading them into a great sport.
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	They are a friendly crew, good people, always friendly, always helpful, always good for a laugh while maintaining safety.

Andrew Garvey

Position	Dive Controller
Number of Dives	400+
Diving Certifications	Technical Nitrox (IANTD) Dive Leader (BSAC) Dive Master (PADI) Dive Controller (SSI)
Number of Years Diving Experience	12
Diving History (Locations ETC)	England Wales Scotland Byron Bay Scapa Flow Normandy Gozo Brisbane Red Sea South Australia G. B. R. Cook Islands
Best Dive Experience	Too Many to Pick a Favourite
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	AllWays Diving are friendly, always helpful and are great to work for while still being totally professional. They have a fantastic dive team.

Lisa Van Zeeland

Position	Dive Controller
Number of Dives	90
Diving Certifications	Night and Limited Visibility Nitrox Deep Search and Recovery Stress and Rescue Drift Navigation First Aid and Oxygen Delivery
Number of Years Diving Experience	1
Diving History (Locations ETC)	South East Queensland, Tulumbin Bali, Sabah
Best Dive Experience	Wolf Rock with the Grey Nurse Sharks
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	They have always been really supportive, helpful and enthusiastic.

Tony Kele

Position	Dive Controller
Number of Dives	145
Diving Certifications	Dive Master (PADI) Dive Controller (SSI)
Number of Years Diving Experience	5
Diving History (Locations ETC)	Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Northern NSW, South West Rocks, Bunker Group
Best Dive Experience	South West Rocks Cave
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	Convenient and Gareth's Experience and Knowledge.

Neil Coyne

Position	Dive Controller
Number of Dives	150
Diving Certifications	Deep Wreck Night and Limited Visibility Search and Recovery Stress and Rescue Nitrox
Number of Years Diving Experience	5
Diving History (Locations ETC)	Bowen Yongala Wreck Bunker Group Moreton Bay Stradbroke Island Tweed River Southport Seaway Cook Island
Best Dive Experience	Every Dive!
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	I have been with many shops and AllWays Diving is by far the best. They care about what they sell, how the customers are treated and the staff.

Margareth Watts divecontroller

Margaret Watts

Position	Dive Controller Scuba Ranger Instructor
Number of Dives	900+
Diving Certifications	Open Water Advanced Open Water Rescue Search and Recovery Master Diver Wreck Diver Deep Diver Night/Limited Visibility Meddive
Number of Years Diving Experience	10+
Diving History (Locations ETC)	Most of the East Coast of Australia Great Barrier Reef Moreton Bay Flinders' Reef Stradbroke Island Cook Island Fish Rock Cave Red Sea
Best Dive Experience	The Lagoon of Loloata The President Coolidge
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	I love working with Children and Diving. At AllWays DIving Ia can do both!

Ian McLeod

Position	Mostly Horizontal - sometimes vertical - usually wet
Number of Dives	Lots
Diving Certifications	NAUI Open Water SSI Rescue SSI Hookah SSI Dive Controller
Number of Years Diving Experience	19 - (I started in 1979 but had a 10 year break, I resumed diving in 1999)
Diving History (Locations ETC)	Torres Strait Perth Reefs Ningaloo Moreton Island and surrounds Red Sea HMAS Brisbane HMAS Swan Lihir Island Tweed River (many times) Plus lots of other east Coast Dives
Best Dive Experience	Either Flat Rock off Stradbroke Island OR Fish Rock Cave at South West Rocks
Why I Chose to Work with the Professionals at AllWays Diving	Because they are Professional!