|
 David Snethkamp
Owner
PADI Course Director
DSAT Tec Trimix Instructor Trainer
DAN Instructor Trainer
EFR Instructor Trainer
Dave is the Operations Director for a Cleveland based engineering & materials testing firm. He started diving in 1989 and became a PADI Instructor in 1996. In 2000 Dave achieved the rating of PADI Course Director. Currently Dave is an instructor for 29 specialties and an Instructor Trainer for over 23 specialties, a DSAT TecRec Instructor Trainer, as well as, a Emergency First Response Instructor Trainer and DSAT Trimix Instructor Trainer. Dave also holds the rating of Instructor Trainer with Divers Alert Network.
Dave’s interests lay in technical diving, primarily cave diving. He is a certified Cave Diver, as well as Trimix Diver/Instructor Trainer.
 Jim Stanford
Owner
PADI IDC Staff Instructor
EFR Instructor
Jim Stanford is the owner of a very successful business, Gray’s Construction. He brings with him to Atlantis Outfitters not only an incredible enthusiasm for diving, but the business skills and drive that have allowed him to build Gray’s into a major entity in the commercial construction industry. Jim was certified as a diver in 2000. He immediately fell in love with diving and began diving as often as possible. Our local quarries received regular visits from Jim and our dive store and dive club became part of his regular hangouts. He got his kids involved in diving and his water-ski, tubing, boating trip to Summersville, WV soon added diving to its agenda. Then he decided he needed a bigger boat so the scuba gear would fit better. Now that’s a guy who loves diving!
Jim’s fascination with the underwater world led him to continue his diving education and he earned his PADI Divemaster in 2003. He continued on to Assistant Instructor and completed his PADI Instructor training in 2005. Jim has been on D & M’s staff since he became a PADI Divemaster. He has continued his training and diving experience, adding ERF and other courses to his qualifications. He loves to dive and to hear and share diving stories. His adventures have taken him to the Spiegel Grove in the Keys, down under to Australia, and even down under the ice in Ohio.
 Karen Snethkamp
General Manager
Karen holds an Advanced certification from PADI and enjoys scuba diving in the Florida Keys (especially Ginnie Springs!). Karen is the General Manager for Atlantis Outfitters and is responsible for overseeing all operations.
Her other hobbies include chinchilla breading; birds, scrap booking and flute playing – although I don’t have a lot of extra time to enjoy these other hobbies due to the recent purchase of the store.
Her and Dave have been married since 1993 and do not have any children (other than the 6 chinchillas, 2 birds and 1 dog)!
 Everett Justham
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Emergency First Response Instructor
DAN Instructor
Service Technician
After earning a Bachelors of Science in Law Enforcement Administration from Youngstown State University, Everett spent twenty-six years as a police officer and emergency medical technician, retiring in 1999.
He is married with two adult children. His wife and son are both divers.
Everett fulfilled a life long desire and started his diving education in 1980 and continued on becoming an instructor in 1983. In 1989 he became a Master Scuba Diver Trainer and now holds 19 PADI specialty instructor certifications as well as PADI Emergency First Response and 10 DAN instructor certifications. Being able to teach a wide range of courses from beginners to wreck diving, and digital underwater photography, keeps variety and excitement in his teaching experiences. His favorite dive locations, so far, are Palau and Bonaire. He enjoys underwater photography and videography, but most of all the thrill of opening up the underwater world to new divers.
 Greg Tomsho
PADI Master Scuba Diver trainer
Greg originally began his diving career in 1989 while attending college at the University of Akron and eventually went on to earn his Open Water Scuba Instructor certification in 1998.
Greg’s most memorable moment in diving came while he was in the Bahamas and was given the opportunity to participate in a shark feeding dive where he was able to don the protective chain mail suit, enter the water teeming with gray reef sharks, and perform the feeding.
Greg’s diving interest lay primarily with wreck diving that combines his passion for diving with his enthusiasm of history; for every shipwreck has a story to be told.
Greg holds a Bachelors Degree in Finance and a Bachelors Degree in Accounting from the University of Akron as well as a Masters in Business Administration Degree from Kent State University. Greg has held several different financial and cost accounting roles with such companies as Diebold, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Rubbermaid, and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, where he is currently employed at today.
 Steven Woods
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
EFR Instructor
DAN Instructor
Steve works in Cleveland for Solar Testing Laboratories. He started diving in 1985 living outside the area did his 4 open water dives and 2 dives after that. Then he did not dive a lot till he moved to Akron and found Atlantis Outfitters (Thanks to Joe Wicker) in 1990. Atlantis Outfitters having a dive club gave him many dive buddies. Steve is often asked what is his favorite dive and he just do not have one. He just loves to dive, whether it’s in Tobormory Canada. Cuzumel Mexico, or just Nelson Ledges Ohio. He likes to work with new divers from Discover SCUBA or Open Water students.
 KenTeleis
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Ken’s first experienced diving in a Discover Scuba course while visiting Maui in 2002. He then became a certified diver in with Atlantis Outfitters in the Spring of 2003 just in time to return to Maui and completed his Advanced Open Water course. Ken became a Master Scuba Diver in 2004. After diving regularly in Ohio since then, Ken went on to attain his Divemaster and Open Water Scuba Instructor ratings in 2006. Ken has dived on Lake Erie, in North Carolina, the Florida Keys and, of course, his favorite location – Maui. When he is not diving, Ken lives in Stow with his wife and two children, and works as the Court Administrator in the Summit County Domestic Relations Court.
 Ken Mihalik
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
Ken began diving in 1993. He enjoyed diving so much that he became a PADI Instructor in 1997. His favorite aspect of teaching is observing people’s initial reaction to diving and sharing his passion with his students. Ken’s love of diving and underwater photography has taken him all over the world including Australia, the Bahamas, Bonaire, Cozumel, and the South Pacific. He also dives locally in lakes and quarries. His favorite dive spot is Bonaire due to the fantastic shore diving available. Ken enjoys taking classes to further his knowledge on the latest diving equipment and developments. When Ken isn’t diving, he works at Akron City Hospital as a Medical Technologist in the Critical Care Laboratory.
 Mark Millhoff Jr.
Professional Commercial Diver
Master Equipment Technician
PADI Assistant Instructor
Red Cross Instructor
Mark started diving in 1997 then in 1998 moved to Seattle where he earned his certification as a Professional Commercial Diver and became a PADI Divemaster while working in a local dive shop out there as their equipment technician. He then moved back to Ohio in 1999 and worked as a commercial diver until being hired full time with the Portage County Sheriff' Office as a Deputy Sheriff and diver. He currently is still full time with the Sheriff’s Office and runs his own commercial diving company “Diving Services”. In 2006 while working at Atlantis Outfitters he earned his certification as a Master Equipment Technician.
 Joe Wicker
PADI Divemaster
Joe started diving in 1986 and became a Divemaster in 1988. In 1990 Joe became certified as a divemaster through HSA- Handicapped Scuba Association. Joe currently holds 9 PADI specialties.
Joe has a great interest in cavern, ice, and wreck diving. He has completed the DSAT TecRec programs and acts as an instructional assistant on the professional level for these programs.
 Terry Starcher
PADI Divemaster
Terry has been married to his wife Paula-Kay for 37 years. They have raised 4 sons and have 8 grandchildren. In August of 2001 while visiting his oldest son who is in the Navy and was stationed in Hawaii he and 2 sons did a Discover Scuba class and did 2 dives on a reef off the north shore of Oahu. Terry was hooked on diving after that. In June of 2002 he earned his open water certification. In 2003 he earned his Master Scuba Diver card and in 2006 Terry became a PADI Divemaster. All total he has 13 certifications, and as he puts it that's just so far. He has gotten them all through Atlantis Outfitters. Terry and his buddies usually dive the Ohio quarries every weekend during the dive season. He has also enjoyed trips to the Florida Keys, North Carolina, Tobermory, Ontario Canada and Lake Erie.
By the way Terry has had a full time job working for Leppo Equipment since 1967 as a service technician.
 Niki Fortlage
PADI Divemaster
Niki is a R.N. from Medina who fell in love with diving in 2005. Despite Ohio’s climate you can find Niki in her favorite quarries year round. Her favorite dive destinations so far are: diving the wrecks off of Moorehead City, North Carolina, the Florida Keys, and St. Croix. This past summer Niki did her training with M.A.S.T. to begin doing archaeological survey on wrecks in the Great Lakes.
Niki is certified in 10 PADI specialties and completed her Dive Master certification in August 2006. Combining her nursing background and passion for diving, in September 2006, she completed the Diver Medical Technician (DMT) training at Diver Alert Network and Duke University and received her DMT certification from the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology.
She is currently certified as an Emergency First Response Instructor for CPR / AED / First Aid for Infants, Children, and Adults and is also certified as an instructor for 8 Diver Alert Network classes.
 Don Gallo
PADI Divemaster
Don started diving in 1994 and in 2007 he became a PADI Dive Master.
His diving interests mainly lay in the areas of technical diving with cave diving being his favorite! He has Cave certifications with NACD and NSS-CDS. He is also certified as a Tec Deep Diver through DSAT.
A trip to Florida to explore the underwater springs is always in the back of his head – can’t get away often enough.
Don is also an Operating Engineer for Malavite Excavating Company, and in 2008 he is getting re-married to Renilda, who recently came over from the Philippines.
Steven Bunn
Retail Staff
Beverly Orlando
Retail Staff
 Dick Wells
Consultant & PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
 Mark Gilbert
Consultant & PADI Master Instructor
Mark began his diving career in 1977 when he received his Openwater Diver certification. The diving bug bit him big time and he began to dive anywhere and anytime he could. In 1981 he earned his PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Instructor certification. After a few years of teaching scuba classes evenings and weekends, he and Dick opened D & M Sport Diving, Inc. and began making scuba a full time job.
Mark has certified over 800 divers in a number of different scuba courses over the years. He has been an assistant and instructor in scuba courses at Mount Union College since1978. Being able to teach a wide range of courses from beginners to wreck diving, underwater photography and yes, even ice diving, keeps variety and excitement in his teaching experiences.
The diving experiences Mark has had range from freshwater lakes, rivers, and old rock quarries to a number of Caribbean islands, Hawaii and even the South Pacific. Mark says, “ The wonder and diversity of life found in the underwater environment surpasses anything that is found on land. The almost infinite variety of color, shape and size in the fish, and the underwater creatures; means that a diver can spend years diving and still be amazed by the sight of a creature they have never seen. I’ve seen multitudes of fish, lobster (1 giant one – no, really!) octopus, eels, barracuda, dolphins and yes-even sharks. I’ve had the opportunity to explore shipwrecks as old as 1868 in the Great Lakes and also Truk Lagoon, where American forces sank a large fleet of Japanese supply ships. After 27 years, I still look forward to every dive knowing there is always something new to see under the horizon.”
|
