Spyros Mandalenakis
Chief Instructor

Spyros Mandalenakis is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor with a complete and specialized training and over thirty years of experience.

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PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) is the largest diving education organization worldwide and the most popular and recognizable organization in recreational diving, establishing the global standards for diver education in over 175 countries, including Greece.

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The specialties taught by Spyros are: Search & Recovery Diver, Multilevel Diver, Night Diver, Deep Diver, Wreck Diver, Underwater Navigator, Diver Propulsion Vehicle, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Underwater Videographer, Underwater Naturalist, Boat Diver, AWARE Shark Conservation, Project AWARE Specialist, Emergency First Response (EFR),  and many more. 

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Furthermore, Spyros is a certified instructor of the International Association of Handicapped Divers (IADD), specializing in dealing with beginners, senior or persons with disabilities who wish to include diving as part of a stress relieving, health, recovery and wellness regiment. 

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Spyros also specializes in driving and teaching Underwater Vehicles-Scooters and holds a speedboat license. He is an underwater photographer whose artworks have been exhibited at the Cyprus Cultural Centre Gallery in Athens.

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Spyros has attended specialized seminars in Hyperbaric Diving Medicine at the War Museum of Athens under the auspices of the Athens Naval Hospital and has participated in various PADI International Diving Conferences.

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He has served as Operations and Training Manager at the Dive Center of the Colossus Beach Hotel in Rhodes and as Senior Security Officer on the United States based ocean-liner cruise ship Crown Odyssey. After his return from the United States, he collaborated with various diving schools and worked as a permanent Diving Instructor at the prestigious Aegean Dive Center in Glyfada, at the University of Indianapolis Athens, and he is currently the SCUBA Diving Center Director at Webster University, Athens Campus.

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In 1996 he was awarded a Medal of Honor by the Ministry of Public Order and the Hellenic Police for "his heroic contribution to the establishment of public order" for his lifesaving intervention during an armed robbery in Glyfada. 

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He is a member of several international organizations, including the Cousteau Society, which promotes research and conservation of the Earth's marine wealth.

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