Dive Instructor · Wreck Diver · Photographer

Ron
Blanchard

Diving since 2003 and teaching since 2011. Ron is happiest on a deep wreck with a camera in hand, and he loves the challenge of teaching divers to go further.

SSI Scuba Instructor 2 XR Deco Instructor Sidemount Instructor Wreck & Photo
Ron Blanchard
InstructorGoose's Scuba Shack InstructorDeep Blue Divers

Scuba Instructor 2

SSI · teaching since 2011

XR Deco Instructor

SSI Extended Range · decompression

Sidemount Instructor

Streamlined, redundant, flexible

Wreck & Photo

Wreck · Photo · Nitrox instructor

01 / About

Built for the
challenge.

Diver since 2003. Instructor since 2011. Wrecks, deep water and a camera.

Ron started diving in 2003 and never looked back. In 2011 he became an instructor, because helping someone take on something hard is the best part of the sport.

Ron loves the challenge. That's what pulled him past recreational limits into Extended Range decompression and sidemount, and it's why he now teaches both as an SSI instructor.

His favorite place to be is on a wreck. The San Francisco Maru in Chuuk Lagoon sits at the top of his list: deep, intact, and still loaded with tanks and trucks from 1944.

He rarely dives without a camera. He shoots a Nikon Z8 in an Ikelite housing, and he teaches underwater photography so other divers can bring home what they saw.

Of everything he teaches, Deep is his favorite class. It asks the most of a diver, and seeing a student handle it calmly never gets old.

02 / What I Teach

From open water
to deco.

New divers, con-ed, wrecks, cameras and technical. All SSI.

/ 01 Ron's favorite

Deep Diving

Planning, gas, narcosis and calm, controlled descents. The class that asks the most of a diver, which is exactly why Ron loves teaching it.

DeepPlanningGas
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/ 02

Wreck Diving

How to read a wreck, stay safe around it and see it properly. From local wrecks to bucket-list sites like Chuuk.

WreckPenetration prepHistory
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/ 03

XR & Sidemount

Extended Range decompression and sidemount configuration for divers ready to go deeper, stay longer and carry more gas.

XR DecoSidemountTechnical
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/ 04

Underwater Photography

Buoyancy first, then light, framing and gear. Learn to come home with photos you are proud of, from a phone to a full rig.

PhotoLightingBuoyancy
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/ 05

Open Water & Nitrox

Your first certification, done right, then Nitrox for longer, safer bottom times. The start of everything else on this page.

Open WaterNitroxNew divers
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/ 06

Navigation & Recovery

Compass and natural navigation, plus search patterns and lift bags to find and recover what was lost.

NavigationSearch & RecoverySkills
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04 / Where I Teach

Find me at.

Two SSI dive centers in Indiana.

Goose's Scuba Shack logo

Goose's Scuba Shack

1490 Joliet St, Dyer, IN 46311
(219) 322-7222

gooses-scuba.com ↗
 Deep Blue Divers Aquatic Center logo

Deep Blue Divers

1313 Progress Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46808
(260) 490-3337

deepbluediversusa.com ↗
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Ready for
the challenge?

First certification, your first deep dive, a wreck trip or the jump to tech. Send Ron an email and he'll get you started.

Email Ron →
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