Scott Upper, PADI Instructor #195273
 

The "other sport of diving"	Scott Upper has been in and out of the water his entire life. As a springboard and platform diver, his 12-year career highlights included a full scholarship to UCLA, a spot on the U.S. National Team, and two national commercials. After the 1992 Olympic Trials, Scott took his last competitive dive and stayed under the water, trading a life of aerial acrobatics for a SCUBA tank. He became PADI certified in San Pedro, California where he embarked on a ten year, gravity-free, adventure.
Since becoming an Open Water Instructor in 2005, Scott has worked on the Kona Aggressor (Big Island of Hawaii); the Tahiti Aggressor (Tuamotu Atolls); the Crown Legacy Motor Yacht (Bahamas/Caribbean); Ft. Lauderdale (Wreck specialist); the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary (Monterey, California); and Incredible Adventure's Great White Cage Diving Expeditions (the Farallone Islands). As a marine technician, cartographer, and underwater videographer, he has contributed to several cutting edge projects, including:	First Mate, Crown Legacy, 2006
SCUBA Scotty has logged over 350 dives.	Graham Hawke's Deep Flight Submersibles. Construction and launch of The Super Falcon. (Richmond, CA, Fall 2008). The National Science Foundation's maiden "seismic for science" voyage, a geophysical expedition - mapping undiscovered magma chambers of the East Pacific Rise. (Equatorial Pacific, Summer, 2008) Stanford University and Hopkins Lab Humboldt Squid tagging studies. (Sea of Cortez, Spring, 2008)