PADI Staff Instructor, IANTD Ad Nitrox Instructor, EFR Instructor, BSAC Instructor Trainer, Mixed Gas Blending Instructor, Paul first leant to dive in the gravel pits of Chatham, Kent, UK in 1999. He moved to Hong Kong in 2000 and has been an avid diver ever since.

He became a PADI Open Water SCUBA Instructor in 2005 and an IDC Staff Instructor in 2007. He loves to teach SCUBA diving and is also an active instructor with the South China Diving Club, based in Hong Kong.

Paul is a full-time Physics teacher at Island School and puts as many of his holidays as possible to good use, in enjoying the best diving locations in Asia. He has been lucky yo dive in the Philippines, Thailand, Palau, Similans, Sipadan and Mayanmar.

More recently Paul has enjoyed the challenge of technical diving and qualified as an IANTD Ad Nitrox instructor in 2010.