SSI INSTRUCTOR TRAINER
PADI STAFF INSTRUCTOR

Air Force veteran Wayne Brown and his family are passionate adventurers and explorers. Wayne is a hands on owner and is committed to providing personalized, exceptional customer service on every Aggressor adventure. From every department and every location around the world, you will experience first class service and adventure. Wayne is the  Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Sea of Change Foundation and a Director of the Oceans For Youth Foundation. Wayne is also a  member of the Explorers Club and a winner of 5 Telly awards. He is an avid photographer/videographer and spends much of his time on the many Aggressor destinations. He and his family reside in Augusta, Georgia.

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SSI Instructor Trainer and PADI Instructor

Growing up as a competitive swimmer was only a matter of time until the "scuba bug" bit Larry. After landing his first real job, it was an easy decision that his first vacation was a scuba certification trip. Twelve months after that first trip, Larry became an instructor, and soon scuba and adventure travel became his full-time career. Larry has certified more divers during his career than he can remember, managed and trained instructional and retail staff, was a professional travel agent and group leader. He also launched a software company for retail dive stores and worked in marketing, advertising, and IT for a large land-based dive resort. Larry earned his MBA specializing in International Business, where he met his wife, Cari. Larry is Vice President of Operations for Aggressor Adventures® and lives in Miami with his wife and two Jack Russel terriers.

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NAUI Divemaster

Anne manages the Reservation Office, Marketing & Advertising Department & Reseller Program at Aggressor Adventures®. She is an inductee into the Women Divers Hall of Fame (WDHOF) and the SSI Platinum Pro5000 Diver Program, and is on the Board of Directors for the Sea of Change Foundation. She is an avid photographer and spends her free time photographing and loves gardening, boating, and traveling. She resides in Naples, Florida. 

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USCG Captain (500 ton)
PADI & SSI Instructor, EFR, React Right Instructor, Equipment Repair Technician
DAN Oxygen Provider Instructor

Captain Jay Roberts was born in Clearwater, Florida and grew up working in his father's diesel mechanic business after school. He has always loved being around the ocean. A certified instructor since 1996, he has enjoyed teaching and showing others the underwater world he loves so much. He is a graduate of Southern Arkansas University Tech in Computer Information Technology and practiced Architecture for eight years as an AIA member. He began working as the photo pro on board the Okeanos Aggressor in Cocos Island in 2002 and then went on to become Captain of the Belize Aggressor III. Jay holds a USCG 500-ton international captain’s license and resides in Augusta, Georgia with his family.

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MCA Captain (200 ton)
NAUI, SDI, TDI, SSI Instructor

Tom holds a 200 ton Yacht Master License, worked as a Captain for 20 years, 9 of them on the Cayman Aggressor. He is a certified Scuba Instructor for four national certification agencies and is fluent in English, German, Spanish, Swedish and Portuguese. Tom originated from Norrtalje, Sweden where he graduated from Rodenskolan College then went on to spend 8 years in sales in Spain and Portugal. He is responsible for managing the reseller program for USA and International tour operators, dive stores and travel agents, leading fam trips, managing trade and consumer dive shows as well as contributing to the fleet's social media. He spends much of the year traveling and working dive travel shows in Germany, France, Canada, USA, Spain, Asia and leading familiarization trips on Aggressor Liveaboards yachts.

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PADI Dive Master
NAUI Scuba Instructor

Samantha Whitcraft is Director of Conservation & Outreach for Aggressor Adventures® and Executive Director of the Sea of Change Foundation, Aggressor’s official conservation partner, a 501c3 nonprofit charity. Samantha’s work includes developing the company’s award-winning GREEN THE FLEET® sustainability program and creating the conservation grants and outreach programs at the Foundation. Over the past 30 years, as a marine conservation biologist, Samantha has worked from the field, lab, and office to protect the oceans’ ecosystems. Researching biodiversity, sustainable fisheries, and the illegal wildlife trade has taken her to the Amazon with National Geographic, to the Mesoamerican reef with NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, and to some of the most remote islands of the Pacific to develop citizen science and sustainable ecotourism while promoting ocean literacy. She has produced award-winning short environmental films and researched/reported on the impacts of the illegal wildlife trade in China. Samantha has served on the Water Resources Advisory Commission for the South Florida Water Management District, on the Sanctuary Advisory Council of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, and the board of the New England Aquarium’s Beach Teach Program.

Samantha graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s in Natural Science focusing on marine conservation biology and earned her Masters of Marine Affairs and Policy at the University of Miami. She has taught formally at Miami Dade College and the University of Hawaii about environmental ethics, traditional ecological knowledge, and coral reef ecosystems.

Ms. Whitcraft is widely recognized as a leader in the field of marine conservation. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, she was recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA Fisheries with a national award for exceptional service in response to the disaster. Whitcraft was also one of twenty women selected for the Women’s Environmental Leaders Forum – Miami with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, principal environmental advisor to the President. She is an SSI Platinum Pro 5000 Diver, recognized by the scuba diving industry as an “elite water explorer”, the recipient of DEMA’s 2020 Wavemaker Award; she was Scuba Diving Magazine’s featured Sea Hero in May 2021, and she was inducted to the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2024.

Samantha is an avid photographer and published nature writer living in her restored tiny house on a sustainable tree farm while raising her two beloved, rescue dogs – Daisy & Nugget.

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