Meet the Staff:
Kids Sea Camp introduces to you the Peyton Family.
Margo Peyton: "Scuba Mom " Woman Diver Hall Of Fame, Ocean Educator, professional photographer, artist; (specializing in sumi ink and acrylic),
Core PADI Credentials:
Open Water Scuba Instructor, Assistant Instructor, Divemaster
Special Credentials:
EFR Instructor, Care for Children w/AED Instructor, Underwater Naturalist Instructor, Deep Instructor, Enriched Air Instructor, Boat Instructor, Digital Underwater Photography Instructor, Diver Propulsion Vehicle Instructor, Peak Performance Buoyancy Instructor, Project Aware Instructor, AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Sp Instructor.
Born to inspire and motivate people to go beyond their borders and discover all they can be. Margo is a creator and a visionary that has worked hard to support family values through creating family diving adventures and event weeks. Her love for her children and the ocean inspired her to create a place to go for families to dive together.
As an avid diver since 1989, with over 3300 logged dives, Margo loves working with and teaching kids.
She was inducted into the Woman’s Scuba Diving Hall of fame in 2009 for her dedication and contribution to diving, education with kids.
Being a working mother of two, Margo spent a lot of time leading groups and on the few times she was able to travel with her family, she was unable to find resorts or destinations with fun, suitable ocean oriented kids' activities and programs. Driven by the desire to share her love for the ocean with her own kids, Margo began to research and seek out family-friendly dive resorts around the world. Having found none, she created her own and pioneered the way for others.
Margo has created the worlds larges dive event. Spanning the glob with events in Palau, Yap, Bonaire, Costa Rica, Grand Cayman, Belize, Bay Islands Honduras, Fiji and the Galapagos Islands, her dream keeps growing, with the addition of surfing, photography, white water rafting and more…
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About Margo Peyton - President Kids Sea Camp Inc.
Margo Peyton has dedicated her life to bringing families and diving together through amazing adventures. Working with local schools doing seminars and educational marine oriented in classroom presentations. Margo through Kids Sea Camp also contributes to Oceans for Youth, Ocean Pals, Sea of Tomorrow, Ocean Wishes, Sea Shepherds, WWF, Pangea Seed Shark Conservation, Fiji Malolo School, NY Charities, and SQ Rescue to name a few. Margo has many other charities she donates, proceeds, trips and art work for silent Auctions where 100% of funds go to her favorite charities. Kids Sea Camp sponsors training grants and scholarships to local kids around the globe.
She has been a PADI diver for over 20 years and in addition to being a PADI instructor, is also certified as Rescue Diver instructor, under water navigator, deep dive instructor, wreck diver, Professional underwater Photo Instructor, equipment specialist, Enriched Air dive instructor and Underwater Naturalist Instructor, night diver, Emergency First Response instructor, Diver propulsion vehicle Instructor, and Master Diver Instructor.
Margo is an active PADI instructor, certified to teach. She volunteers locally with Lucy at Columbia Scuba, SC. www.columbiascubasc.com
Growing with her kids over the years, Margo has now created family Dive Adventures which includes many programs with college accredited dive courses and more exotic destinations for families with certified diver kids that want to enjoy a family dive vacation.
Kids are our future! Believe in them, they are “Generation NOW”!
About Tom Peyton:
Tom Peyton became a diver when he met Margo in 2005, Certified in Curacao with Ocean Encounters together with his new step son Robbie and daughter Jennifer, Tom has embraced diving and traveling around the world with his new family. Tom’s background is incredible. He had a play be produced off Broadway, editor for Newspapers winning hundreds of National awards as Art Director, illustrator and now an editor. Tom has
owned his own gallery as a talented acrylic painter, and continues today to turn out magnificent creations of nature and marine life on canvas for charities of Kids Sea Camp. Some of his prints will be available in our online gallery. He has directed many creative workshops based on the book called the Artist’s Way. His work has been on display at the Ambassador Gallery in South Florida as well in Soho in NY City. In addition Tom has an amazing vocal talent, with two albums as lead singer of an acoustic rock band from South Florida. He has performed for Kids Sea Camp families in the Cayman Islands and Honduras and Fiji.
Tom’s album can be heard or purchased on i-tunes under “Heart of The Rose”. Tom is currently a senior editor over photography and visuals at a newspaper. Tom loves to attend Kids Sea Camp where he can to sing, shoot photos, paint and dive with his family.
About Tabitha Davis:
Tabitha graduated from Elon University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. She has studied abroad in both London and Vancouver and loves directing and performing. Along with theatre, Tabitha has always had a passion for travel so, after moving to South Carolina in 2009, Tabitha was very excited to find a job with Kids Sea Camp where she is the current office manager. She spends her day doing everything from answering phone calls, creating brochures, sending out newsletters, pestering clients about forms, working on the website & sometimes even helping out with the rescue puppies.
Tabitha had never even snorkeled prior to starting her job with Kids Sea Camp and now a year later, she is a certified diver and is looking forward to diving with Margo and all of our wonderful Kids Sea Camp families. When she isn’t working, Tabitha loves to hang out with her best friend (and husband- Andrew), her puppy Callie and cat Phoebe
About Robbie:
Born in the Cayman Islands in 1994, Robbie grew up at the beach and in the ocean. He was swimming on his own at age 6 months, and has never looked back. Robbie began swimming with manatee at age 5, dolphins at age 6 and Sea lions at 9. Robbie loves the ocean and its inhabitants and is looking forward to the Galapagos trip. He will hopefully snorkel with wild sea lions and see his first Whale Shark.
Robbie loves to paint and is a very good artist. He likes working on graffiti art projects. His favorite things to do at Kids Sea Camp are making new friends and seeing his dive buddies year after year. He
loves blow carting in Bonaire, zip lining and shark diving in Roatan. He loves being back home in Grand Cayman and diving with Sea Scooters. He loves diving with Christian at Ocean encounters in Curacao and his favorite place is Fiji where he loves having thanksgiving with his Sea Camp family. Robbie is looking forward to shark diving in the Bahamas. His goal is to become a Diver Master and instructor as soon as he is old enough.
Robbie is also creating with his mom the new Eco Adventure in Costa Rica slated for 2009. As a assistant pioneer to his mom, Robbie repelled down a 364-foot cliff, worked level 3 & 4 white water wafting trips through the mountains, went horse back riding through the rain forest and enjoyed a volcano mud bath. Robbie dove for the first time in the Pacific side of Costa Rica with Bill and Nadine Beard and encountered chocolate chip star fish, white tip sharks and schools of Eagle Rays along with his first experience with Humpback Whales and wild dolphins. He hiked through the cloud forest and the La Paz waterfalls
Dive Training accomplishments PADI Open Water diver 2005- PADI Advanced Diver, photo Diver, Adventure Diver, Fish ID, Buoyancy diver, National Geo Diver, Shark Diver, 200+ dives. Seal Team 2003, Master Seal team 2004, Dolphin trainer level 4- Curacao Sea Aquarium 2004/5/.
About Jennifer:
Born in Florida 1996 Jennifer is an amazing free diver. She can hold her breath 2.5 min and dive 30-feet, she learned to swim and free dive with the dolphins of Curacao. Jennifer has grown up from the age of 4 under the wings of her aquatic dolphin family Dee Dee, Copan, Annie and GiGi. She loves her trainers George and Livy, Rona and modeling for underwater photographer Barry Brown. Jennifer has worked with baby dolphins such as Pepito, Lina and Chabalita all born at the Curacao Sea Aquarium. She has often worked with them to swim with her and do tricks for her such as foot pushes and rocket launches and waves. Jennifer is a dolphin trainer and has grown to love and understand these beautiful animals and thinks it’s vital for in ocean educational facilities where dolphins remain in their families and are able to swim and play in the ocean daily to exist. These facilities promote education through interaction and create awareness that will hopefully motivate humans to protect and care for them and their environments.
Jennifer became a certified diver at age 10 in 2006 at Fiji Kids Sea Camp. She prefers working with animals to diving, but has attained many certifications for her age, Fish ID, Adventure Diver, Photo and Buoyancy, boat diver, navigation, digital photo, DPV, PPB, EFR and Nat Geo certifiecations. She loves diving with turtles and releasing them from the turtle farm in Grand Cayman. She loves the Blue Star fish and clown fish in Fiji and like to take underwater photos. Her favorite experiences with Kids Sea Camp is helping run the Treasure hunt and handing out prizes to all the kids. Jennifer loves watching Baby turtles hatch in Bonaire and going tubing and slack line and getting licked by wild donkeys. Jennifer likes riding horses on the beach every day in Utila and diving with sea scooters in Grand Cayman, She loves Costa Rica most of all as she loves to ride horses, surf, white water raft and dive there. She is looking forward to Galapagos, Palau and Yap this comming year. Jen loves to paint and enjoys meeting new friends at Kids Sea Camp.
About Women Divers Hall of Fame Carolyn Pascal:
Pioneer, leader, innovator throughout the international diving community Carolyn is currently the Publisher Florida Travel and Life. She was the publisher of Sport Diver magazine, Islands Magazine. She focuses on dive market development and creating multimedia programs that contribute to industry growth. Over her 25-year dive
career, Carolyn has traveled extensively working to increase dive tourism. She is an active member of the Caribbean Hotel Association, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, and has led many dive seminars and roundtable discussions. Carolyn has also played an active role in the development of Kids Sea Camp events with her daughter Melissa Pascal-Gaurino, and has been involved in photojournalism both behind and in
front of the camera.
Carolyn, also a scuba mom, has been apart of Kids Sea Camp since its birth in 2001, Melissa then 6 years old and a SASY snorkeler, Certified PADI diver in Grand Cayman in 2005. She now has advanced diver and many specialties, Melissa is following in her mother’s foot steps, writing for Kids Sea Camp and Sport Diver Magazine. She is also an assistant councilor to many of our Seal team and SASY programs. Carolyn and Melissa attend many of the Kids Sea Camps each year and enjoy meeting new friends and getting reacquainted with many past families with kids that have grown up in Kids Sea Camp over the years. Melissa loves Blow carting in Bonaire, she loves horse back riding and diving in Roatan. She loves painting and riding sea scooters in Grand Cayman. But her favorite KSC adventure is Fiji where she enjoys diving with all her friends over thanksgiving holidays.
Kids Sea Camp Family Dive Adventures, Est. in 2000, combines fun, safety and education into PADI dive programs for kids, and an equally relaxing and enjoyable dive vacation with private time for adults.
Margo Peyton has created a complete family adventure, designed to give every family member the ultimate an memorable experience of a lifetime. Meeting other families from around the world, learning about oceans, as well as building a common thread to love and protect our oceans ensuring their future for years to come.
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Meeting all the educational standards, Kids Sea Camp has been chosen by PADI Diving Society, and PADI as a sponsored program. Kids Sea Camp is hosted at PADI facilities and exceeds all PADI standards for safety and instruction, presenting each family with opportunities for PADI seal Team, Jr. Open Water Certification and SASY, as well as Adult certification and Specialty and Advanced Open Water courses.
Kids Sea Camp is now the worlds largest Dive Event, and one of the fastest growing certification programs for kids. Margo believes the future of our underwater world is in our children’s hands and being an ambassador for them is one of the most rewarding experiences of her life and a position she is very proud to have the opportunity to hold.
Annie Crawley:
She lives the message she brings to the world, empowering people to use their imagination to live out of their vision of themselves, rather than their history.
Through public speaking tours, workshops and programs, Annie Crawley reaches a worldwide audience. While creating a successful business, Dive Into Your Imagination, Annie Crawley, aka Ocean Annie, continues to travel and document the world focusing on life in our Ocean. She is uniquely qualified to speak about obtaining success by taking risks, living your dreams and creating your greatest life. Originally from Chicago and trained as a photo and broadcast journalist, Annie Crawley spent the past two decades living and working around the world. After learning to scuba dive and sail, she became a PADI Master Scuba Diving Instructor and a 100 ton US Coast Guard Boat Captain. She was named an SSI 5000 Platinum Pro Diver and inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame Class 2010. Annie Crawley specializes in the Underwater Realm as an underwater photographer, filmmaker, field biologist and expert.
Greatest thanks to the many that makes up our team and whom we would not be as successful with out:
PADI- Theresa Gulledge- For being the foundation of training, professionalism and support for KSC www.padi.com
Thank you PADI Dive Centers who make it all happen, for believing in our future, the children and for believing in me.
Nancy & Jay Esterbrook- Dive Tech; Michelle and Paul, Augusto –Buddy Dive; Marc, Dermot & Sam- Sam's Tours Palau;- Ocotal Beach Resort,-Buccament Bay & Indigo Divers, Laguna Beach Resort- Utila Dive Adventures.
REMINDER: ALL US PASSPORTS MUST BE VALID FOR UP 6 SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO EXPIRATION DATE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY. AIRLINES ARE ENFORCING THIS
All schedules, itineraries and package inclusions are subject to change.
