ABOUT US

Get to know us...

Tobias Klose, Manager & Chief Instructor
Tobias started breath-hold diving for small coins in German high diving pools when he was 7 years of age. It wasn't until in 1995 that he learned to equalize his ears on a PADI Open Water Diver course.
A few years later in 1998 he did his PADI Diving Instructor education on Roatan, Honduras.
He is German but has lived in Iceland since 2001 with his wife Thorunn which happens to work for DIVE.IS as well.
Tobias started managing the operating business of DIVE.IS in summer 2006.
With his experience as a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Tobias sets the standards for all dive courses and dive tours conducted by DIVE.IS.




Thorunn Birna Thorvaldsdottir, Marketing & Sales
Thorunn studied tourism and marketing at the University of Iceland and works currently on a research project on marine tourism. She takes care of marketing, bills, translations, product development, etc.
Before starting at DIVE.IS she worked at the inbound section at Terra Nova travel agency in Iceland.
Before moving back to Iceland in 2002, Thorunn lived and worked abroad for 8 years. She speaks German, English, Icelandic, Danish and Spanish.



David "Alfi" Ramsay, Instructor
Alfi is an Ex Royal Navy diver and has taught diving professionally in Asia, USA and Africa. He loves the ocean and nature with a dream to become a rebreather videographer.
"The greatest part of my job is to inspire and bring out the best in people. DIVE.IS customers deserve the best, and thats exactly what I give".
Silfra is not only a place to take stunning photos and video, its also a place to embrace everything that encompasses diving.



Kevin Martin, Divemaster
Kevin started diving in the green waters around Dublin in his native Ireland in 2004 and completed his commercial diving qualifications in 2005.
He is also a trained archaeologist and has been coming to Iceland over the past 10 years to research and excavate Viking sites.
He is currently preparing to begin a Phd research project investigating Shipwrecks in Iceland.
He completed his PADI Divemaster certification in 2010 with DIVE.IS and has been guiding dive & snorkel tours at Silfra and other sites ever since.



Aron Bjarnason, Divemaster
Aron has gone from zero to hero with DIVE.IS over the last 2 years.
He was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1991 and is finishing his High School degree in the winter 2010. He will start a program on Tourism with the University of Iceland in 2011.
Apart from diving, Aron‘s interest is traveling. He has explored all corners of the Icelandic highlands since he started walking.
Aron is the youngest member of DIVE.IS and our divers and snorkelers love him for his calm and helpful attitude.



Davið Sigurþórsson, Instructor
David became a PADI Instructor in 1996 in Phuket, Thailand and has worked as an instructor and divemaster in various parts of the world ever since.
Having certified over 300 students from over 30 countries David is one of Iceland´s most experienced diving instructors.
He has been with DIVE.IS, The Blue Army and Ársæll Marine-rescue unit since 2000 and knows the SILFRA area and other sites like they were his own back-yard.
Currently living in Sweden David spends his summers diving in Iceland as he just can´t keep away...



Guðjón Benfield, Divemaster
Gaui started diving in Akureyri in 2001 and has dived over 300 dives all around Iceland since.
He has been diving many of Icelands so far unknown dive spots on all ends of the country.
Gaui is an active member of the Icelandic Dive Club and finished his PADI divemaster in 2008.
He guides many of our Silfra and Ocean diver tours when he is not selling computers at IBM.







Louis Kotze, Divemaster
Louis is born in 1985 and has been living in Namibia and South Africa for most of his life.
He has been studying journalism and agriculture and started diving in the rough altantic seas of Cape town.
He finished his PADI dive master education with DIVE.IS in the beginning of 2008 and has been taking more divers through Silfra and Garður within the last months than anybody else.
Currently he is preparing his PADI Diving Instructor course.




Hjörtur Blöndal, Divemaster
Hjörtur started diving in 1986 in a wonderful wetsuit in the cold cracks of Thingvellir. After few years of diving he took a break but returned to the diving world in 2003. He finished his PADI Divemaster a few years ago and continues to become a PADI Instructor.
Hjörtur works as a software developer and guides day tours to Silfra, the ocean and Kleifarvatn when he gets a day off from the computer screen.
Hjörtur also works as a sky diving photographer and videographer.




Bergur Sigurðsson, Instructor
Bergur did his dive master education while working at DIVE.IS in the early 2000’s.
In 2004 he went to Pro Dive in Ft Lauderdale Florida to get his instructor certification.
Bergur has years of experience as a dive guide and has taught levels from open water to dive master.
Bergur now works for the NGO Landvernd, the Icelandic Environment Association, where he is kept busy trying to protect the pristine nature of Iceland from industrialization.





Samuel Ólafsson, Divemaster
Samuel did his PADI Open Water Diver course in the beginning of 2005 at DIVE.IS.
After he finished his PADI Divemaster programme in Turkey in summer 2006 he worked there as a divemaster.
Samuel has more than 300 dives under his belt and finished college recently.
When he doesn’t work at Hotel Keflavik he guides dive tours and assists dive courses.






Radek Ziegert, Divemaster
Radek started his diving career with DIVE.IS in 2002.
He did his divemaster training in the US in 2007. He is originally Polish but has lived in Iceland for 14 years.
He has been with DIVE.IS and the Blue Army since 2000 and assists training sessions as well as dive tours.
Radek finished his photography at the university of New York in 2008. Radek is an avid diver and has dived in many places around the globe.






Tómas J. Knútsson, Masterminder
Tómas founded the Sports Diving School of Iceland in 1997 and has owned and managed it for the last 9 years as Iceland´s only PADI dive centre, setting the standard for recreational diving in Iceland. Tómas´ passion has always been the environment and the fight for a better, cleaner future – both on land and under water. What began as a simple PADI Project Aware initiative became his main activity today. The Blue Army. The Dive Center has been his "soul" and he will accompany DIVE.IS in the future as a consultant, Instructor, Story teller,...