After three years of freelance instructing, husband and wife team Bryan and Helen Bond formed Northampton Scuba School in December 2000 based at the KG Business Centre in Northampton. In July 2002 we were awarded the status of PADI Dive Centre and in 2004 we became a PADI 5 Star Centre, upgrading to a 5 star Instructor Centre in January 2005.  Since starting, the school has issued over 2,700 certifications covering all levels from new divers to PADI Staff Instructors.  We pride ourselves on our attention to detail and flexible approach whilst maintaining the highest standards. 

We are particularly proud of our dive team, most of whom learnt to dive with us and then continued through the PADI system to become professional divers and work with us at the school.  Within the team we have 13 Instructors, 4 Assistant Instructors and 5 Divemasters with 4 Divemasters currently in training:

Name: Bryan Bond
Dive Qualification: Master Instructor 
Diving since: April 1995
No of dives: 4,000+
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Wrecks at Scapa Flow
Favourite place to dive overseas: Cayman Islands

Name: Helen Bond
Dive Qualification: Master Instructor 
Diving since: April 1995
No of dives: 4,000+
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Isles of Scilly
Favourite place to dive overseas: Little Cayman Bloody Bay Wall

Name: Sparky Bond (School mascot!)
Dive Qualification: None - hates water and only paddles when it's hot
Diving since: Not if he can help it
No of dives: zero
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Paddles in the stream
Favourite place to dive overseas: No pet passport so never been!!

Name: Clive Albon
Dive Qualification: PADI Platinum Course Director, DSAT Tec Deep Instructor Trainer  
Diving Since: 1988  
Number of Dives: 5,000+  
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Ardglass, NI  
Favourite place to dive in the World: Inland Sea, Gozo

Name: Dennis Arnold
Dive Qualification: Divemaster
Diving since: 2008
No of dives: 200+
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Chepstow and Stoney Cove
Favourite place to dive overseas: Egypt

Name: Rob Bartlett
Dive Qualification: Divemaster
Diving since: July 2009
No of dives: 97
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Plymouth
Favourite place to dive overseas: Antigua

Name: Roy Chase
Dive Qualification: Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Diving since: 2003
No of dives: 550+
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Plymouth
Favourite place to dive overseas: Bonaire

Name: Russ Cross
Dive Qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor
Diving since: 2000
No of dives: not enough
Favourite place to dive in UK: Porth Kerris Cornwall
Favourite place to dive overseas: probably Thailand after next week

Name: Ruth Harrison
Dive Qualification: Divemaster
Diving since: 2005
No of dives: 130
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Not fussed where i dive
Favourite place to dive overseas: Not fussed where i dive

Name: Adam Heast
Dive Qualification: Divemaster
Diving since: 2007
No of dives: 110
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Anywhere
Favourite place to dive overseas: Egypt / Maldives

Name: Roland Hedden
Dive Qualification: Assistant Instructor
Diving since: 2002
No of dives: 600+
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Scapa Flow or Isles of Scilly (50/50!)
Favourite place to dive overseas: Maldives (South Egyptian Red Sea is a close second)

Name: Richard Hunt
Dive Qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor, Drysuit Speciality Instructor
Diving since: 1999
No of dives: over 1000
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Scilly Isles and Scapa Flow
Favourite place to dive overseas: My one Holiday in Egypt!! 

Name: Jonathan Lyall
Dive Qualification: Staff Instructor
Diving since: 2005
No of dives: 500+                                   
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Bishops Rock, Scillies
Favourite place to dive overseas: Wreck of the Yongala, Townsville, Australia

Name: Donna Matthews          
Dive Qualification: IDC Staff Instructor
Diving since: 2005
No of dives: 815
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Scilly Isles      
Favourite place to dive overseas: Maldives

Name: Steve Matthews           
Dive Qualification: IDC Staff Instructor
Diving since: 2005
No of dives: 850
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Scilly Isles
Favourite place to dive overseas: Cayman Islands

Name: Mike McNamara
Dive Qualification: OWSI, Speciality Instructor in Wreck, Videography, Dry Suit, Enriched Air
Diving since: 2005
No of dives: 400
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Farne Islands
Favourite place to dive overseas: Manta Reef Mozambique

Name: Nick Mead
Dive Qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor
Diving since: 02/06/2006
No. of dives: 350+
Favourite place in UK: has to be Isle of Wight
Favourite place abroad: has to be Red Sea

Name: Jayne Metcalfe
Dive Qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor
Diving since: 2007
No of dives: 170
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Diving with seals in the Scilly’s
Favourite place to dive overseas: Dhonkalo Thila (Manta Alley) and Eriyadhu Beyru (Whale Sharks) both in the Maldives

Name: Martyn Stanley
Dive Qualification: Assistant Instructor
Diving since: Feb 2005 (try dive) Qualified August 2005
No of dives: 235 ish
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Stoney as I havent been to the seaside yet
Favourite place to dive overseas: Has to be October 2010 at the Brothers in the Red Sea with the shark encounters

Name: Paul Strachan
Dive Qualification: Divemaster
Diving since: Dec 2003 (Aug 2009 regularly)
No of dives: 102
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Plymouth (would love to dive Scillies though)
Favourite place to dive overseas: Red Sea

Name: Carolyn Thorne
Dive Qualification: Assistant Instructor, Digital Underwater Photography Instructor
Diving since: 2004
No of Dives: 360
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Stoney Cove
Favourite place to dive overseas: Maldives

Name: Jon Thorne
Dive Qualification: Assistant Instructor, Digital Underwater Scuba Instructor
Diving since: 2004
No of dives: 360
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Stoney Cove
Favourite place to dive overseas: Maldives

Name: Trevor Toomey
Dive Qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor 
Diving since: Sept 2006
No of dives: 190
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Stoney Cove
Favourite place to dive overseas: Philippines

Name: Russ Vann
Dive qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor and Self Reliant Instructor
Diving since: 2003
No of dives: 200+
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Portsmouth 
Favourite place to dive overseas: Fiji

Name: Pete Walmsley
Dive Qualification: Open Water Scuba Instructor
Diving since: 2000
No of dives: 400 dives
Favourite Spot UK: A sunny day, midweek at Stoney Cove (weird but true)
Favourite spot overseas: Lembeh Straits, Indonesia

Name: Dave Whale
Dive Qualification: Divemaster
Diving since: August 2006
No of dives: 140
Favourite place to dive in the UK: Cornwall, out of Rock & Padstow
Favourite place to dive overseas: Barbados

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