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Bill Finstad
One of the world's first SCUBA instructors, Bill Finstad has certified tens-of-thousands of divers who have traveled around the world with a spirit of adventure and learning. Bill is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and holds a master's degree in marine biology. His thesis work focused on circadian rhythms in sharks. He has co produced several television documentaries on shark behavior and shark attacks. Bill has taught as a professor of marine biology, zoology, botany and California plants and animals at several colleges. With a Coast Guard Captain's License for 100 ton vessels, Bill is an expert on the local diving sites-known to land his anchor on an exact pinnacle and dive directly to a wolf eel he met 30 years ago.
When you climb into Bill's 20' inflatable you will receive a smack in the ass when your fins are pulled off and don't leave your dive gear dangling in the water on the side of the boat or Bill will drive off with it only to claim it at some later date. You may also learn boat exit techniques from an inflatable at 40mph.
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Kristy Finstad
Kristy Finstad is a NAUI instructor with over 2,000 dives and a degree in Aquatic Biology with honors from UCSB. Kristy's first dives were under Bill's arm, breathing from his octopus in the Channel Islands over twenty years ago. She wore her first tank in Cozumel when she was nine. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Kristy spent five months in the Tahitian Islands studying damselfish and corals, and learning to speak Tahitian while diving for black pearls on a remote atoll. She studied Tropical Biology in Costa Rica, where she lived on a farm and spoke Spanish. Kristy worked for the Australian Institute of Marine Science on the Great Barrier Reef while studying Marine Conservation at James Cook University. She makes a living by doing coastal restoration with the California Coastal Commission and by doing hydrology for the City of Santa Cruz. Teaching SCUBA and traveling keeps Kristy alive with her mission to inspire appreciation for our underwater world.
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