Semper Dive

Specialties

Love It * Dive It * Protect It

Mission

To teach, train, and encourage safe and environmentally aware divers to enjoy our world’s aquatic beauty and work to improve and maintain it.

Description

Semper DIVE!® LLC provides SCUBA equipment and training with an emphasis on safe and environmentally friendly diving. We also specialize in children’s programs.

History

Established in 2012.

Semper DIVE!® is about a love of the ocean and teaching others how to enjoy, share, and protect the wonders down below. The origin of the name Semper DIVE!® actually evolved over the course of two and a half years and was the idea of one of my students. I used to sign my emails, «Semper Dive.» He suggested that my ‘tag line’ would be a great business name!

In March 2012, I founded «Semper DIVE!® LLC.» Of course, I added the additional twist of making «DIVE» an acronym. (Enter Semper DIVE!‘s current contest to see if you can guess what DIVE stands for). I then began working with a very talented graphic designer to develop a logo. It took nearly three months and about twenty five iterations to develop Semper DIVE!‘s logo. But, when it was done, it was done. The artist was able to translate my thoughts and feelings to a design. The logo carries as much meaning for me as the.

Over the first year of the business, I noticed one theme that kept reoccurring — children. After much

Meet the Business Owner

Spencer S.

Business Owner

Semper DIVE!® LLC was started as one SCUBA instructor’s dream. Owner, Spencer Schoen, was always at home in the water — despite a near drowning incident as toddler. In 1984, at fourteen years of age, he earned NAUI and YMCA SCUBA certifications and was immediately hooked on diving. During his college years in Long Island, NY, he dove regularly, usually for lobster. During this time, he earned his PADI Advanced Open Water and PADI Rescue Diver certifications. He earned his PADI Divemaster rating in 1995.

In 2010, after two years living in Okinawa, Japan and spending almost as much time in the water as the fish, Spencer’s passion for diving was at all-​time high. He entered an Instructor Development Course and became a PADI instructor in the spring of 2011. Then, in 2012, he founded Semper DIVE!® LLC and has been developing the business ever since!