PADI Instructor # 61728

Mark Billups is a PADI Instructor who is on staff at Anne Arundel Community College as a part-time scuba instructor for the advanced diving classes. Mark has taught the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course, the PADI Rescue Diver course, the PADI Medic First Aid course, the PADI Divemaster course, and also the Divers Alert Network Oxygen Provider Course. Along with teaching the advanced classes, he also volunteers his time to assist with the Open Water classes. He has been assisting with both the pool sessions and the open water checkout dives at the college for over seven years now. Mark says, "Teaching advanced diving techniques, rescue skills, and dive management skills to certified divers is very rewarding, however, nothing beats the excitement and thrill of helping someone become a newly certified scuba diver." Mark not only holds an advanced instructor rating, but also several specialty instructor ratings.