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 Teaching and fully preparing people to explore the underwater environment as safely and risk-free as possible is the passion of Konaquatica’s technical diving instructor Jim Holt. Starting his diving as a young teenager, he explored Southern and Central California waters, at one point jumping off the Monterey pier in full scuba gear, which as he now says “was quite a giant stride.”
Since then he has been fortunate to train and dive with the best: Tom Mount, Billy Deans, Paul Heinerth, Jill Heinerth, Richard Pyle, Larry Greene, Jeffrey Bozanic, Peter Readey, and Larry Wright among them. Jim has carried on and now specializes in technical diving education. Some highlights of his diving career include participation as a diver in multiple Bahama Blue Holes explorations utilizing closed circuit rebreathers, deep and wall dives involving mixed gases, open circuit and CCRs over the years in California, Florida, the Pacific Northwest, Indonesia, Fiji, Hawaii and the Caribbean. He participates in both deep wreck and cave diving including on the exploration level, has an expertise in open and closed circuit diving and dives all environments in all conditions.
Jim has devoted a great part of his life to learning about, studying and appreciating marine life in all its forms. As an underwater videographer, he films with the aim in mind of not only entertaining, but also encouraging a true ecology and awareness of the underwater realm.
A published author of technical diving articles, Jim Holt is now an IANTD trimix instructor specializing in teaching both open circuit and the new frontier of closed circuit rebreather diving in Kona, Hawaii at Konaquatica Dive Center. Dedicated to safety, his constant goal is advancement of your diving knowledge and skills.
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