SAL PAINTER
PADI Staff Instructor, SSI Assistant instructor trainer & Owner

I joined Below The Surface in 2009 on a Discover Scuba & have been here ever since. Now no longer a student, although always learning! I am now a PADI Staff Instructor & EFR first aid Instructor & an SSI Assistant instructor trainer as well as looking after the accounts, advertising, admin, running the dive trips & helping Bill in the dive centre, when I can.

“My hero as a child was Jacques Cousteau and diving was a long held ambition. I love diving both in the colder waters of the UK and in warmer climes.

My favourite dive site has to be the Maldives…..but I am still looking!  I found more than the love of diving with Below The Surface I also found a husband and best friend in Bill Painter”