KSC AMBASSADOR: ROBBIE PEYTON
I work full-time with KSC and the FDA. I enjoy teaching and traveling with the company. People always ask me which KSC destinations are my favorite. I can’t answer that question because they are all great. It’s the families who travel with us around the world that make each trip so unique and memorable. The Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau are a long way to travel for many families, but experiencing the people, food, history, culture, and diving makes it worth the travel. Diving deep wrecks, experiencing big sharks, mantas, and pristine rarely-dived walls or reefs is living the dream. My mom has been a dream-maker for 35 years. She is in the Women Divers Hall of Fame for creating a safe place for families to dive together. Kids Sea Camp has over 7,800+ PADI-certified kids and not a single dive accident. That is due to my mom’s impressive tenacity. My mom could not have created KSC by
herself. She has had a little help from her friends. Mom has been close friends with Paul and Michelle Coolen from Buddy Dive. When Carolyn Pascal was the publisher of Sport Diver magazine, she loved Mom’s idea so much that she told the whole world about it. Mom practically grew up in the Cayman Islands, where I was born. She has strong personal relationships with all the resort owners and dive operators she works with. She says they are her extended family and always have each other’s back. My sister, Jen, is a PADI OWSI instructor. She is 27 years old now and a veterinary office practice manager. Jen and I have grown up traveling the world, and it has kept our family close. I hate to take all the credit, but I’m sure we were 100 percent the inspiration for mom creating Kids Sea Camp. Growing up under the fins of so many amazing people, we have had the best life. Watching the talent presentation at the end was one of my favorite parts of
the trip. Listening to families sharing their experiences, parents and kids read poems or do a skit or sing songs. I am looking forward to running trips for Family Dive Adventures, a division of Kids Sea Camp that caters more to custom trips. I want to take divers to the Sea of Cortez, Galapagos, Palau, and many more advanced dive destinations. My favorite dives are black water night, shark, wreck, and Tec Dives. I am very grateful for all the international friendships and the incredible opportunities those friendships have afforded me over the past 24 years. A special thank you to PADI for sponsoring me, to Buddy Dive Bonaire, Paul Coolen. Mr. G, and most importantly, thank my parents for always having my back and for putting such inspiring people and places in my path. Robbie Peyton, PADI MSDT #340202
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