Your Instructor

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dean Pennington II is a scuba diver with 13 years of diving experience. He has dove in a variety of environments, from fresh water lakes, rivers, sinkholes, cenotes and caves to ocean reefs and wrecks in the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

He is a certified NAUI Open water Instructor and Instructor trainer. Along with being Full cave certified with NACD, he is a Technical Dive Instructor with TDI and PSAI.

His training has also included deep air and advanced tri-mix diving.

Dean is a Physician Assistant in a busy Neurosurgery practice in Tyler, Texas. He splits his time between surgery and clinic. Prior to becoming a PA, he spent 9 ½ years as an Apache pilot and Warrant Officer in the U.S. Army.

He is married and has four children. Happily, his wife Djuana and his two boys Pike and Drew, all scuba dive. His daughter Desirae and newest son Donovan will dive after they get just alittle bigger.

Along with diving, Dean likes to travel, eat (that’s a surprise) read and listen to music.
He has been known to say that he likes to dive, that he likes to dive a lot!

He can be reached via e-mail at mdpii@suddenlink.net or by phone at 903-520-3133.