Pod Guides

Ana spent her twenties teaching dive courses on the Dalmatian coast and her thirties going progressively deeper into places most people walk past in history books. She shoots wrecks the way a wildlife photographer shoots a pride of lions — not for the steel, but for what's living in it. Her Red Sea images have appeared in Unterwasser, Sport Diver, and three consecutive issues of the Croatian National Geographic supplement.

Marcus has a marine biology degree he barely uses and a dive logbook he uses constantly. He spent four years underwater for AIMS counting things that didn't want to be counted, then quit to do something more useful: take people to places where hammerheads school in the hundreds and whale sharks treat the safety stop as an inconvenience. He has been running Galápagos liveaboards for eight years. Zero trip cancellations.

Ravi grew up snorkelling off Mirissa and is now one of the more obsessively specific people in diving. His specialty is everything everyone else swims past. He got into diving through coral reef monitoring, spent three years doing survey dives for a Sri Lankan marine NGO, and then started guiding when he realised he was having more fun showing people his discoveries than recording them.

Jordan Reeves is from Illinois, which is as far from an ocean as a person can get without actively trying. She started diving in a quarry in Wisconsin and ended up writing her master's thesis underwater at Cocos Island watching hammerheads. She runs trips to Cocos because she knows it better than most people know their own neighbourhood. Has appeared in National Geographic Digital, Hakai Magazine, and Shark Week.

Danny Kowalski came to diving from a decade producing events and brought the same orientation: obsessive pre-trip planning so that on the trip itself, nothing feels planned. His Maldives trips run like a great dinner party. Former events producer; pivoted to diving at 35. Runs 14+ group trips over 7 years with zero lost divers.