The Buccaneer Team

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The Buccaneer Diving Instructors.
 We believe in promoting local talent at Buccaneer Diving and nearly every single one of our Instructors did their Instructor training with us in Mombasa. In fact a number of our Instructors joined us as salesmen, tank carriers or dive guides and have worked their way up to Instructor in our development programs through hard work and enthusiasm. Most also have further training and are also Padi Emergency First Response Instructors with Specialty Instructor qualifications. All our Instructors are passionate about the sea and are very experienced in diving the sites along the Mombasa Coastline. All our Instructors are fluent in English and if we include all the languages spoken fluently by our Instructors we can also teach diving in French, Italian, German, Dutch, Arabic and Swahili.		  
'Junior' Twalal Karim: Chief Instructor and Master Mechanic.
Junior was born in Mombasa and comes from an ocean loving family, as such he knows the oceans in this part of the world well. Junior trained to be an Instructor with Buccaneer Diving after which he worked as a dive Instructor in Zanzibar before returning to Mombasa to work with Buccaneer. He is a Padi Open Water Scuba Instructor whose Specialty Instructor Ratings include the teaching of Padi Enriched Air (Nitrox) and Deep Diver Specialty. Junior is also an Emergency First Response Instructor. He speaks fluent Italian, Arabic, Swahili and also English.

Baya Msanzu Baya : Certified Oceanic Regulator Technician and Voyager Instructor.Baya is from Mombasa and originally joined us as a salesman. His natural apptitude for languages (he speaks fluent Swahili, English, German and passable French) combined with his technical skills and enthusiasm for the ocean and diving made it an easy choice for us to bring him to Instructor level. Baya works out of Voyager mainly but does travel to other bases when his language skills are required

  
Claire Barker : Whitesands Instructor.
Claire is one of Buccaneer Diving's female Padi Open Water Scuba Instructors as well as being a Padi Emergency First Response Instructor. Her love of the sea and diving on this coast were instrumental in her leaving her job in London to move out here and become a full-time scuba instructor. Claire is also responsible for the Buccaneer shop, designing new products and Buccaneer clothing.		  
Levavie Indieka : Voyager instructor.
Lev is a Kenyan Citizen who joined us after completing his IDC in Florida USA where he was gaining his degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering. Lev is incredibly passionate about all kinds of diving and simply does not believe that there is such a thing as a bad dive! In fact he spends most of his leisure time night diving where he continues to hone his skills with his underwater camera.		  
Herbert Tsofwa: Sun and Sand instructor.
Herbert works out ofthe Sun and Sand Hotel where he is known as 'The Professor'. Herbert is from Malindi originally where he gained a huge amount of experience working as a dive guide.		  
Adam Boya : Whitesands instructor.
Adam works out of Whitesands Hotel together with Claire. Adam also brings a wealth of experience with him from the SouthCoast of Kenya. Adam is a cool customer whose unflappable approach makes him very useful on those really busy days!		  
Alphonce Kazungu : Sun and Sand instructor.
Alphonce works out of Sun and Sand where he is known as Mr Cross for reasons lost in time. Alphonce also has a natural ability with languages and speaks fluent Swahili, English, German, French and Italian. His enthusiasm and great sense of humour makes him one of our most popular instructors.		  
Polar Hamza: Voyager instructor.
Polar is our hardest working Instructor! Originally from Shimoni, Polar has lived in Mombasa for several years. Again, Polar is totally unflappable and cool and just loves to dive!		  
The Buccaneer Divemasters (all our dive guides are qualified Padi Divemasters).
Buccaneer Diving only uses qualified Padi Divemasters as dive guides. All our divemasters have experience diving the sites along the Mombasa coastline. They know the names of, and where to find, all the most exciting marine life at each site and will happily point it out to everyone diving with them. Nearly all of our Divemasters have trained with us for all the Padi courses from Open Water through to the Divemaster qualification.
The Buccaneer Diving Boat Captains