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The Buccaneer Team
Sander den Haring: Buccaneer Voyager Base Manager and Marine Biologist.
Sander is the Voyager Buccaneer base manager, he also oversees the bases at Reef Hotel and Nyali Beach Hotel. As a qualified Marine Biologist Sander is keen on environmental conservation, he is instrumental in many of Buccaneers projects as well as being keen to persuade all around him to join in many other local projects. He is very involved with the Schools to the Sea program and has created a PADI approved distinctive specialty to increase diver awareness about Sea Turtles. Sander is also the Staff Instructor that assists Bruce on the Instructor Development courses.
Sander set up the digital underwater photography lab at the voyager base as he is a keen photographer, in fact many of his photographs appear on this web site.
'Junior' Twalac Karim: Buccaneer Whitesands Base Manager 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 who 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.
Claire Barker : Buccaneer Sun and Sands Base Manager.
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.
 
The other Buccaneer Diving Instructors.
All Buccaneer Diving Instructors are Padi Open Water Scuba Instructors. Most also have further training so 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.
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