Our Team

INSTRUCTORS

Daniel Semrad II

 

Owner, Advanced Instructor Trainer, Safety, Athlete, Coach

Owner, founder and lead instructor Dan Semrad II, has always had a passion for the water. As a biologist and an educator by training and profession; freediving and spearfishing are more than just sport for Daniel. With a deep respect for the ocean and an appreciation for every experience it provides, Dan loves sharing his experience and training divers to experience the wonder of our aquatic environments and the thrill of diving! Dan is a 4X CMAS US National Record holding freediver, an Advanced Instructor Trainer, Competition Safety, and Coach.

Dan is now based in Hawaii and offers the following courses:

Intermediate Freediver, Advanced Freediver, Safety Freediver, Supervisor Freediver, Freediver Instructor, Intermediate Freediver Instructor, Advanced Freediver Instructor, Breath Hold Surf Survival, DPV Freediver, Spearfishing.

IG: @dansemrad

Facebook: Daniel Semrad II

Daniel Flood

Freediver Instructor

Want to get in the water with a Flood? Meet Daniel Flood, one of the freediver instructors with the Oregon Freediving Company. Earning his instructor certification through Performance Freediving International (PFI) in the beginning of 2018, Daniel has been helping people find new ways to enjoy their time in the water. Daniel’s values originate from a respect of the sea that was instilled at a young age by his father who was an aviation officer in the United States Coast Gard. Most memorably while spending three years living in Alaska on Kodiak Island, cold water survival training was part of the elementary school curriculum. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest the ocean has played a large role in Daniels life. Going through several scuba certifications in 2016 he was introduced to freediving and was instantly drawn the sport. Wanting to be as informed as one could, he started by taking the freediving course offered by the Oregon Freediving Company, the same course that Daniel now teaches. At the end of 2018 Daniel has started working on the intermediate instructor certification. Daniel has begun teaching his daughter the same values and respect for the water, when permitted in between tea parties and trips to the park.

Luke Potter

PFI Freediver Instructor

Kerry Coombs

SSI Level I Instructor

Dalen Roesijadi

PFI Freediver Instructor

Dalen is here for the love of the game and enjoys guiding students to expand their freediving performance and safety. He approaches line diving as a student himself. And when work allows, is spearfishing in the PNW. Dalen currently serves as a firefighter & rescue swimmer instructor for the Seattle Fire Department where he works to improve water rescue outcomes by incorporating freediving skills into rescue swimmer training.

Rusty Kuhfeld

 

Rusty has been a life long fisherman and started his freediving and spearfishing journey in 2019. After taking the beginning freediving course. Since then he has traveled up and down Oregon spearfishing and spent time free dive training and spearfishing in SE Asia. Rusty is currently a PFI Supervisor Freediver working towards an Instructor certification. Rusty works in the dive shop and teaches spearfishing courses and assists with the freediving certification courses.

 

Kimberly Jeffries

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Freelance underwater cinematographer, AAUS Scientific Diver, rEvo Rebreather Instructor, PFI Freediver Instructor, FAA Drone Pilot, and USCG 100 Ton Master Captain... Not to mention a pretty cool human being.  Recent work includes Our Oceans (Netflix), and Incredible Animal Journeys (Disney/NatGeo).  Kim is based on Oahu.

TEAM DIVERS

Jeff Garwood

Advanced Freediver, Team Diver

Kurt Grote

Advanced Freediver, Team Diver

 

Ian Elstrom

Team Diver

A former FII instructor Ian taught mainly in the Northern LA – Santa Barbara area and Portland. Ian has 20+ years experience in the ocean diving, surfing, sailing, and fishing. He has traveled extensively throughout Baja and the world in search of good surf and spearfishing spots and can set up custom guided trips and classes.

Derek Boe

Oregon State record lingcod 41.8 lbs & 48”

75lb Wahoo French Polynesia 

155lb BF Tuna 100mi out from LA

Team Diver

Derek started freediving/spearfishing in the spring of 2018 and immediately became obsessed with it. Passed the Freediver course that fall with Oregon Freediving Company and has spent countless hours/days exploring and diving the local waters of Oregon and Washington.


Derek frequently travels chasing fish up and down the west coast from SoCal to Alaska, the entire Baja Peninsula, mainland Mexico, Costa Rica and has spent a considerable amount of time in Nicaragua amongst other trips around the world. A passion for spearfishing and shooting big fish is the driving force behind his diving which recently has branched off into regularly line diving a local lake and gear recovery/clean up in the local rivers.


Social media handles- feel free to reach out if you’re looking for advice, to ask questions, or just to talk about spearfishing in general.

IG- @spearoking
YouTube- Spearoking
TikTok- @spearokings
Facebook- Derek Boe