AJ POWELL

AJ is the Dive Operations Officer, Dive Training Officer, and Primary Instructor for Pinnacle Diving Company. He is a Christian, a retired United States Army Non-Commissioned Officer, and served in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. His professional career started in 2001, and throughout his entire career, he worked in the fields of both aviation and diving simultaneously. He first learned to dive in 2002, and for the past 20+ years, has since been blessed (or cursed) with assignments and opportunities to dive in some of the most challenging and demanding environments and conditions around the world.

Today, AJ is a professional occupational diver, certified technical diver, closed circuit rebreather diver, and certified NAUI and IANTD instructor, technical OC and CCR instructor, and occupational diving instructor. He has been teaching professionally as a qualified educator, specialized skills trainer, and certified instructor across a multitude of expertise for most of his career. As an 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 mentor and 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.