Amazing divers can't be "made". After all, while most can learn to dive, all the courses in the world won't make you a good diver.
No. Amazing divers must be "grown" by leaders capable of solid mentorship.
This is where Pinnacle Diving Company comes in.
Pinnacle Diving Company is an American veteran-operated English-speaking professional diving service based in Kanagawa, Japan, and we nurture and grow the best divers on the planet!
We have a passion for diving. Our adventure is exploring the world-over, our mission is to teach, train, and certify, hands-down, the best divers in the world, and our goal is to grow a competent, confident, capable, and safe dive community, that truly cares about the health of the oceans, the planet, and each other.
To accomplish this, PDC offers:
- NAUI and IANTD Education and Training to certify new divers and advance the education and training of certified divers (why NAUI?)(why IANTD?),
- NAUI Approved Veterans Administration diving certification programs for all service members, veterans, and dependents with VA benefits,
- Customized and comprehensive Workshops to advance the skills of divers in specific areas to a point of mastery,
- Guided and customized diving opportunities for certified divers and dive groups,
- The most advanced diving equipment the industry currently has to offer,
- Equipment servicing, repair work, and modifications,
- Professional training services for educational institutions in need of a diver training program,
- Expeditionary SCUBA diving services, including certifications, program evaluations, workshops, underwater video production services, scientific surveys, and more,
- Hull Cleaning Services for private boat owners, and
- A wide array of Professional Occupational SCUBA diving services, including commercial vessel hull inspection and report services.
PDC is available for dive training and certifications, expeditions and diving events, and professional / occupational SCUBA diving services year-around.
From beginning your own underwater adventures by getting certified or advancing your diver education, from custom drysuits, equipment sales, and services to supplying heavy compressors, hydraulic tools, and surface-supplied systems, from UW videography to providing our capabilities anywhere around the world, Pinnacle Diving Company is ready to help you succeed and meet your underwater needs.
AJ is a professional occupational diver, adventure / expedition diver, certified technical diver, closed circuit rebreather diver, and certified NAUI and IANTD dive instructor, technical CCR instructor, and occupational instructor. He has over 1,500+ logged dives and more than 1000+ logged hours of accumulative underwater dive time, mostly in cold open-ocean waters, using both open and closed circuit systems, as well as surface-supplied systems.
AJ has been teaching professionally as a qualified educator, specialized skills trainer, and certified instructor across a multitude of expertise, for most of his career. AJ chooses NAUI and IANTD to teach with for their policies of academic freedom and reputation as the highest training standards in the world. As an independent instructor, he draws extensively on his career-long training and experience, both military and civilian, while incorporating many overlapping aspects from the world of aviation into the world of diving, to grow his students into highly skilled divers far above the standards. As a result, AJ has developed a reputation for teaching and training both military service members and civilians alike to become well-educated, highly competent, confident, capable, and safe divers, who are passionate about diving and growing in their diver KSA’s.
