Alex Varnals - Master Instructor

Alex is the driving force behind Diving Leisure Leeds.  He began laying the foundations for DLL in April 2005 and is now very proud to invite you all into the friendliest dive centre in the Leeds area

Alex's dive credentials include:

• PADI Master Instructor
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:
  • Deep Diving
  • Wreck Diving
  • Enriched Air (Nitrox)
  • Boat Diving
  • Underwater Navigation
  • Equipment Specialist
  • Drysuits
  • Digital Underwater Photography
  • Diver Propulsion Vehicle
  • Night Diving
  • Search & Recovery Diver
  • Multi Level Diver
• EFR Instructor Trainer
• EFR First Aid at Work Instructor Trainer
• EFR Care for Children Instructor Trainer
• IANTD Advanced Recreational Trimix Diver
• TDI Gas Blender (Nitrox) Instructor
• TDI Advanced (Trimix) Gas Blender Instructor
• DSAT Nitrox & Trimix Gas Blender

Chris Dalby - Instructor

Chris is one of our PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainers.  He is a dedicated member of the instructional team who also enjoys pushing his diving to new depths.  He will teach anywhere it is wet, even a puddle, if it was deep enough.

Chris’ dive credentials include:

• PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:
  • Deep Diver
  • Wreck Diver
  • Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
  • Digital Underwater Photography Diver
  • Drysuit Diver
• EFR Primary & Secondary Care Instructor
• EFR Care for Children Instructor
• IANTD Advanced Recreational Trimix Diver

Kat Clegg - Instructor

Kat is the Training Co-Ordinator and Centre Manager.  Her main aim is to co-ordinate staff and students, ensuring that both are at the right place and right time for all the diver training and recreational diving that is happening through the centre.  She is your first port of call for any diver training, club registrations and club trip information as she spends almost as much time in the dive centre as Al.

Kat's dive credentials include:

• PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:
  • Deep Diver
  • Wreck Diver
  • Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
  • Digital Underwater Photography Diver
  • Drysuit Diver
  • Underwater Navigation
• EFR Primary Care & Secondary Care Instructor
• EFR Care for Children Instructor

Mike Fell - IDC Staff Instructor

Mike is one of our PADI IDC Staff Instructors and a very dedicated member of the team.  Mike travels all the way from Middle Earth to Bradford every Wednesday for our pool session.  Mike can usually be found anywhere in the world, whatever the weather, in his Drysuit and Arctic (and other thermals), even Egypt in July!

Mike's dive credentials include:

• PADI IDC Staff Instructor
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:

  • Deep Diving
  • Wreck Diving
  • Enriched Air (Nitrox)
  • Digital Underwater Photography
  • Drysuit Diving
  • Boat Diving
  • Search & Recovery
  • Diver Propulsion Vehicle
  • Underwater Navigation
• EFR Primary & Secondary Care Instructor
• EFR Care for Children Instructor
• IANTD Advanced Recreational Trimix Diver

Vanessa Harker - Instructor

Vanessa's in-water abilites are often utilised to help develop the Divemaster Skill Circuits.  Her attention to detail in this area means the feedback offered to DM candidates is not only thorough but positive and constructive.

Vanessa's dive credentials include:

• PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:
  • Deep Diver
  • Wreck Diver
  • Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
  • Digital Underwater Photography Diver
  • Drysuit Diver
  • Underwater Navigation
• EFR Primary Care & Secondary Care Instructor
• EFR Care for Children Instructor
• EFR First Aid at Work Instructor

Chris Hartley - Instructor

Chris is one of our more experienced instructors having worked in a resort in Cyprus and with us here in Leeds.

Chris's dive credentials include:

• PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer 
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:
• Deep Diver
• Wreck Diver
• Boat Diving
• Underwater Navigation
• Equipment Specialist
• Drysuits
• Diver Propulsion Vehicle
• Night Diving
• Search & Recovery Diver
• Multi Level Diver
• EFR Primary Care & Secondary Care Instructor
• EFR Care for Children Instructor

Graham Carr - Instructor

Graham is one of our more recent instructors having worked in resort in Dahab, Egypt and with us here in Leeds. He is also a dab hand in helping out with anything IT related, and is also well know in the shop as a master "hoover" diver or human cleaner wrasse. 

Graham's dive credentials include:

• PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor 
• PADI Specialty Instructor in the following areas:
  • Deep Diver
  • Enriched Air (Nitrox)
  • Underwater Navigation
  • Digital Underwater Photography
  • Search & Recovery Diver
• EFR Primary Care & Secondary Care Instructor
• EFR Care for Children Instructor
• DSAT Nitrox and Trimix Gas Blender