About Graham – Diving

Expedition Director/Dive Guide

Graham was attracted to water ever since being a young boy growing up in England. His first encounters with marine life were in the tide pools where he collected specimens in buckets for close examination. Even from a very early age Graham enjoyed finding strange and unusual animals and trying to figure out what they were. It was when Graham was a young kid that he found his first scorpion fish and wondered what kind of strange fish it was?

The thought of ever being a certified diver and diving on a regular basis was originally not even a dream. It was always believed to be something only the very privileged could do. It wasn’t until Graham moved to the tiny of Jersey where he met a few local divers that he had an opportunity to really give scuba diving a try. Needless to say, that first underwater experience was enough to convince Graham that he needed to get certified and go I search of more diving.

First certified in Florida, then very soon after a little research and hearing of other diver’s travels to exotic locations such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia etc Graham knew that this was where he needed to head.

When Graham made his first dive on Sipadan Island he was totally overwhelmed with the abundance and diversity of Indo-Pacific marine life. After seeing so many sharks, barracudas, jacks, turtles and other big animals Graham started to an interest in looking for unusual creatures. He quickly found that this was the real exciting thing to do underwater and enjoyed showing the unusual finds to other divers — especially photographers who could capture the image forever. From dive No.20 guiding divers on The Drop Off at Sipadan the big dream was to be able to guide the world’s best photographers, film makers, the keenest marine life enthusiasts. Being able to work with such divers would mean Graham would be able to constantly learn even more about this amazing underwater environment he had discovered.

Since 1997 Graham has been a professional dive guide in North Sulawesi, West Australia, the Wakatobi island group, Komodo, Irian Jaya, the Eastern islands of the Nusa Tengarra such as Flores, Alor & beyond, through the Banda Sea, of course his home island of Bali and since 2005 Graham has led trips to various areas of Papua New Guinea. Graham was the organizer and trip leader for the first ever pioneering dives in the Triton Bay (Fakfak area) of Southern West Papua (Irian Jaya) and also one of the first operators to lead expeditions with recreational divers to Halmahera and northern Seram.

Diving 4 Images is now a dream come true…