Welcome to MC Scuba
Meet Our Team
At MC Scuba, our team is passionate about diving and dedicated to providing exceptional experiences for our customers. We take pride in our diverse skills, experience, and love for the underwater world. Don't settle for the bare minimum to get certified, let us train you above and beyond so you are qualified to dive. Learn from those who have experience in everything from recreational diving to real world experience in Public Safety Diving. At MC Scuba, we make absolutely sure you are prepared for your adventures, and then some! Also, when you're trained by us, you don't just receive a certification, you will be confident in your abilities, and the team comes with it. We continue to stand behind every single student, even after their certification, so they gain a support group of divers who they can always turn to in the future. Get to know the faces behind MC Scuba and the unique qualities that make our team extraordinary.
Jeremy Bertucci
Divemaster
Jeremy is a U.S. Army Veteran and seasoned divemaster pursing his Instructor certification. He also holds nearly every PADI specialty offered, and has extensive experience in Public Safety Diving operations. His passion for diving and commitment to safety make him an invaluable asset to MC Scuba. With his expert guidance, divers can enhance their skills and explore the wonders of the underwater realm with confidence.
Mark Collins
Master Instructor
Mark is a retired U.S. Navy Veteran. As the owner and Master Instructor for MC Scuba, Mark brings extensive knowledge and leadership to the diving center. With a strong focus on professional development, Mark ensures that MC Scuba maintains the highest standards of training and customer satisfaction. His dedication to the diving community drives the center's mission of excellence.
Victoria Collins
Store Manager
Victoria is an Advanced Open Water diver, and the glue that holds everything together. Her enthusiasm for diving and her commitment to providing exceptional customer service make her a valuable member of the MC Scuba team. With her patient and encouraging approach, Victoria empowers divers to embrace new challenges and expand their underwater horizons.
Paul Braud
Open Water Scuba Instructor
I fell in love the underwater world at an early age watching Sea Hunt and Jacques Cousteau Specials on TV. I learned to swim at the local YMCA, I think my parents put me in every swimming class offered during my youth. I am an EMT-B and ARC Lifeguard. My favorite dives to date have been The Maldives and Wakatobi. I also enjoy diving Roatan, Cozumel, and Curacao.
In 1982 my dream of becoming a scuba diver came true. I enrolled in an Open Water Scuba course taught by Keith Sliman at Seven Seas in Baton Rouge and have not stopped diving since. August of 1984 started diving for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office as a Public Safety Diver until June 2015.June of 1985 went to Ocean Corp of Houston, TX and receive my Commercial Suba Diver certification. In 1987 I became an EMT-B and Hyperbaric Technician and used that training at OLOLRMC when they had a multi-place hyperbaric chamber. November 1993, I became a NAUI Scuba instructor taught by Keith Sliman, Mark Smith, and Pete McCool at Underwater Adventure, LLC and currently hold that certification. Since becoming a NAUI Instructor I taught at Underwater Adventures, LLC with Mark Smith until moving to Bay St Louis, MS (2020). October of 2023, I attended PADI Instructor course at Rainbow Reef IDC in Key Largo, FL and attained PADI Instructor certification plus 14 specialties.
Greg Speyrer
Master Scuba Diver Trainer
My underwater adventures started in 1982 under the auspices of the locally famous Harry Caldwell, his dive shop, and the YMCA Scuba program. Those early years opened opportunities for me to investigate, explore, spearfish, lobster hunt, hone my Scuba skills, and meet a bunch of great people along the rigs, wrecks, reefs, and springs of the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.
In the early 2000s, I recertified under PADI alongside my boys and several of their friends as part of a new Boy Scout program that officially adopted Scuba as a high adventure event.
By the mid-2000s, I earned my PADI Divemaster, Instructor, Master Scuba Trainer, and Specialty Instructor chits and started a long Scuba Instructor affiliation with Dave and Sunday Delger of the Caribbean Dive Shop in Metairie, LA. After Dave and Sunday retired in 2017, I have had the privilege of serving as an instructor and working with Rick at Coral Reef Dive Shop.
Also, around the mid-2000s, I qualified with a certification in large dive boat operations and actively began working/volunteering as a Divemaster on the M/V Spree and M/V Fling— a large dive boat operation doing sport/recreational/research charters to the Flower Gardens Marine Sanctuary and other areas in the Gulf of Mexico.
Along the way, I've also qualified as a DAN O2, EFR/CPR, Solo Diver instructor, and an American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) diver, and I'm currently working towards a 100-ton USCG Master's license. When not jumping somewhere in an ocean or spring, I serve as a volunteer diver with the Audubon Aquarium of Americas in New Orleans and have done volunteer research diving with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Walt Morris
Travel Manager
My love of being on the water began in the late ‘50s with family boating trips on the Ohio River in southwestern Indiana. My obsession with being under the water came from watching Sea Hunt in the early ‘60s, and Mike Nelson replaced Paladin as my TV action hero. Living in landlocked Indiana, it wasn’t until my college years in Florida that I had my first scuba experience in the Florida Keys. I became an official scuba diver in 1989, and since I have logged over 2,200 dives. I started diving with Rick Sutton in 1990, and my association with Coral Reef Dive Shop stretches back to its beginning in 1994. As I approached retirement, Rick offered me the opportunity to become the Travel Manager at Coral Reef, and I began a new career in April 2020.
As a travel manager, my responsibilities encompass booking, organizing, and leading our customers on trips that provide fantastic diving, great accommodations, excellent meals, and loads of fun. My goal is to provide a calendar that includes return trips to “old” favorites as well as new and unexplored destinations. Over the years, my dive travels have taken me to the Caribbean, Central America, South America, the Eastern Pacific, Southeastern Asia, and Micronesia, and I use what I learned from these experiences in setting up our trips. When looking to add new destinations, I am committed to visiting and diving with the operators prior to recommending our customers’ book trips.
