Orginally hailing from England, Andrew is an experienced instructor and dive store manager.

He has dived extensively around the world, favourite dive locations outside of New Zealand include the wrecks of Scapa Flow, Truk Lagoon and the reefs and critters of North Sulawesi.

Andrew dives extensively on his Inspiration rebreather. 

His personal career highlights include;

• Being only the third diver ever to successfully dive the Port Kembla wreck sitting in 96m of water off farewell Spit. 
• In 2016 he was part of an elite group of divers tasked with filming and diving the wrecks of the Java Sea for a Dutch Documentary, his footage was also later used by National Geographic.
• In 2018 he joined a very select group of divers to have successfully dived the USS Atlanta wreck, sitting in 130m in Solomons.

He is a qualified to Advanced Trimix level and teaches to OC Trimix and CCR Tec 60 level.

Other passions include photography both above and below water. His work has been exhibited in New Zealand and has been published around the world, he is a highly sought after wedding photographer, with his work published in Hello magazine (Great Britain).

Andrews Courses and Specialties:

SSI Instructor
TDI CCR Air Dil Diver (Inspiration)
TDI Trimix Diver
TDI Decompression Procedures
TDI Advanced Nitrox
TDI Nitrox
PADI Tec 60 CCR (inspiration and Evolution) 
PADI Tec 40 CCR (inspiration and Evolution)
PADI Tec 65 OC
PADI Tec 50OC
PADI Tec 45 OC
PADI Tec 40 OC
PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider
PADI Digital Underwater Photography
PADI Underwater Photographer (film)
PADI Wreck
PADI Enriched Air (EANx – Nitrox)
PADI Deep
PADI Dry Suit
PADI Night
PADI Search & Recovery
PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy
Project Aware
AWARE coral reef conservation
Emergency First Response

Andrew has dived with most of the gear he sells, he was behind the store ethos of only selling the best dive equipment. He has three gear configurations for single tank, Twin tank and CCR diving. His personal choices are;

Single Tank - Tropical Diving Gear
Regulator : Apeks ATX200 Black Pearl 30th Anniversary
Computer : Shearwater Perdix and Shearwater Teric
Bcd : OMS AL Smartstream BCD w 27lb Wing
Exposure suit : Fourth Element Proteus II 3mm / Fourth Element Thermocline LS
Exposure suit Accessories : Fourth Element Technical Shorts
Torch : Light Monkey 12W handheld
Fins : OMS Slipstream Fins
Boots:  Fourth Element Amphibian Boots
Mask: OMS Tattoo mask
Hood: Fourth Element 3mm
Gloves : Fourth Element 3mm
Accessories; OMS 1m DSMB
                      Light Monkey 25’ Spool
                      Heser Backup light
                      OMS Wetnotes

Twin Tank - OC Tech Gear

Regulators : Apeks XTX 50 with 5th Port conversions, 2m primary hose
Computer : Shearwater Perdix and Shearwater Teric
BCD : OMS SS Smartsream with OMS 45lb Wing
Exposure suit : Fourth Element Argonaut Stealth Drysuit
Dry Suit Accessories : Light Monkey Balanced Tinkle Valve w/QD
Undergarments : Fourth Element Halo / X-Core Vest
Torch : Light Monkey 12W Handheld 
Fins : OMS Tribe Fins
Mask : OMS Tattoo Mask with Light Monkey Neoprene Slap strap 
Hood : Fourth Element 7mm
Gloves : Fourth Element 3mm
Accessories;  Light Monkey reels (200 & 400ft)
                       AP Diving DSMB 1.4m
                       Heser Back up torch
                      OMS Wet Notes
                       Eezycut Trilobite line cutter
                       Light Monkey "Shank" Knife

CCR - Tech Gear

Rebreather: AP Diving Inspiration Vision eCCR
Back up Regulators : Apeks XTX50 and Scubapro MK25/G250
Computer : Shearwater NERD2 & Perdix
Exposure suit : Fourth Element Argonaut Stealth Drysuit
Dry Suit Accessories :  Light Monkey Balanced Tinkle Valve w/QD
Undergarments : Fourth Element Halo / X-Core Vest
Torch : Light Monkey 32w Dual Battery CCR model
Fins : OMS Tribe Fins
Mask : OMS Tattoo Mask with Light Monkey Neoprene Slap strap 
Hood : Fourth Element 7mm
Gloves : Fourth Element 3mm
Accessories; Light Monkey reels (200 & 400ft)
                      AP Diving DSMB 1.4m
                      Heser Back up torch
                      OMS Wet Notes
                      Eezycut Trilobite line cutter

Camera Gear
Camera: Nikon D3S
Lenses: Nikon AFS105 Macro, AFS 16-35 & Sigma 15mm Fisheye
Housing: Aquatica Aluminium with 130m Deep kit
Strobes: Ikelite DS160
Arms: Ultralight Buoyant arms 10"
Clamps: Ultralight Clamp
Video Lights: Light & Motion Sola 9600 and Light & Motion Sola 2000