Our Team

Family-friendly professionalism

Our team leads by example as we practice professionalism on every level. Kids Sea Camp staffers honor the PADI code of conduct, showing compassion, prioritizing safety first, and being family-focused with attention to detail. It is what our KSC dive team and tour guides represent.

 Kids Sea Camp instructors are active PADI pros who are up-to-date with skills, training, and rescue. Our team is regularly evaluated by parents, students, and other PADI Pros.

Kids Sea Camp Inc. takes great pride in our staff members’ knowledge, considerateness, fun, and unique and specialized expertise. Our tour guide and instructor team speaks seven languages (English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, French, and American sign language). We have a pool of instructors worldwide who specialize in assisting with select special needs diving, such as functioning Autism, Deaf divers, handicap divers, severe arthritis, blind divers, diabetic divers, and those needing extra attention or TLC.

Special attention

The dive team travels on Kids Sea Camp family group trips each year. If you have special needs or language requests, call us and request accommodations during your reservation. We will do our best to ensure we have what you need for the requested trip. In some cases, private instruction may incur additional costs.

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The Kids Sea Camp team

Margo Peyton (THE OCEAN)

President/CEO of Kids Sea Camp Inc.

CEO Kids Sea Camp Inc. & Family Dive Adventures, 2024 International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame inductee, Women Divers Hall of Fame, SCUBAPRO Deep Elite, PADI Ambassadiver, PADI Elite MSDT instructor. Margo has been awarded The PADI Lifetime Achievement, PADI Award of Excellence in training and education, Beneath The Sea Diver of the Year, and the DEMA Hall Of Fame/ Reaching Out Award. Margo is a Wyland Icon nominee, SSI Platnum Pro Diver, a Lifetime member of the Historical Diving Society, The Family Travel Associations Person Of The Year, and The legends of The Sea award. Margo has contributed to over 7,800 certified youths and zero dive accidents. A leader, pioneer, and inspiration to her peers, she has dedicated her life to children and diving. Margo is a passionate ocean advocate who promotes education, training and travels in every part of her life. Margo is also the founder of Ocean Wishes, a charity designed to protect, preserve and educate, through training grants, donations, and conservation. Margo is a writer and contributor to many dive magazines. She is an expert consultant with regard to children and diving and has been published in Diver Magazine, Scuba Diving Magazine, Dive Training, Diver Alert Magazine, Sport Diver Magazine, Working Mothers Magazine, USA Today, The Sun Sentinal, The State, Departures Magazine, The Undersea Journal, Ocean Realm, Scuba Diver Magazine, and others. Contact: margo@kidsseacamp.com

Thomas Peyton (THE UNIVERSE)

Vice President of Kids Sea Camp Inc.

Tom is A PADI Diver Master and head of media and marketing for KSC. Tom is the VP of KSC since 2013. Tom has helped Margo grow Kids Sea Camp as a talented writer, painter, singer, and designer. In 2020 Tom has been awarded The PADI Lifetime Achievement with his wife Margo. In his prior life, Tom Peyton had a 25-year career in the newspapers industry, his positions held included; Managing Editor of visuals, Director of Photography, illustrator, graphic artist, political cartoonist, and lead designer. Some of the newspapers he worked for worked with Sun Sentinel, Star-Ledger, Indianapolis Star, and USA Today. Tom brings effective leadership and team management experience in developing a creative work environment. Tom's years of expertise in redesigning, designing, training, hiring, photo editing, managing assignments, budgets, and lead designer on special sections have been invaluable to the growth of KSC over the past 15 years. Tom has been working on special projects, content development, cross-media, and strategic brand management. His brightest role is creating more fun for families who have other passions like; fly fishing, volleyball, music, football, karaoke, and basketball. Contact: tom@familydivers.com

Olivia Rapisand (USA)

PADI Dive Instructor/ KSC Operations Manager

Olivia joined the Kids Sea Camp team in June 2018. She is a PADI OWIS Instructor. Olivia has transformed and streamlined Kids Sea Camp with her zen-ratu appeal. She is well respected by the dive teams we work with around the world and loved by our suppliers and clients. Oliva came to us after many years of managing sales and reservations for 7 Belize properties. She was also the scuba and flyfishing specialist for her prior company. She and Tom became a natural fit for creating the Fly and Dive parts of KSC and Family Dive Adventures. Olivia has managed our new CRM project as well as created with Margo, many new KSC locations, such as JMC in Fiji, Salaya in the Philippines, Blackbird Cay in Belize, and our Fly and Dive trips. Olivia loves underwater photography and has become an expert with the Sea Life iPhone housing and software. She loves teaching kids and often sets up yoga and paddle boarding at many of the locations she is hosting. Contact: olivia@familydivers.com

Robert Peyton (USA)

KSC sales representative/ PADI Dive Instructor

The true dive talent of our diving family, Robbie has over 4,500 dives at age 30. Rob is a PADI STAFF Instructor and Tech instructor he has attained his Tec 40, 45, 50. Rob has traveled the world since he was 6 years old with Kids Sea Camp. He has trained under many incredible instructors. Rob graduated from USC with his BA in Business.We are very proud to have him on our team. Robs two passions are fishing and diving. He enjoys teaching PADI PRO courses and is also one of the very few instructors in the world able to teach the PADI Jr. Divemaster course. Rob was born in the Grand Cayman of the Cayman Islands.

Josh Comay (USA)

PADI Dive Instructor

Josh has been diving with Kids Sea Camp along with his family since 2008.  He is an avid underwater photographer and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.  Josh is semi-retired now from a long career as an IT/entertainment executive, and when not diving for KSC, Josh now spends his time teaching high school students calculus and other advanced mathematics. He is looking forward to the day his grandkids become KSC divers.

Woody Tinsley (USA)

PADI staff Instructor

Lord, Doctor Woodrow Tinsley III. Yep, that is a mouth full. Woody is a legend and a hero to all of us who know and love him at Kids Sea Camp. Woody as we call him is an East Hartford Police Officer. He has delivered babies, saved lives, and is a public safety officer. He is a husband to Sally Tinsley and father of 5 children, 3 girls, and 2 boys. Woody has certified over 600 divers, has been awarded the PADI Elite Instructor, PADI Community Service, and has received 2 Meritorious Service medals. Woody is a distinguished officer and PADI Instructor. He teaches the famous Forte Nite Diver Cert, The Zombie Apocolypse Diver Cert, and has numerous Guinness Book Of World Records related to diving.

Sven Blanc (GERMANY)

PADI Dive Instructor

Our Kids Sea Camp German rock star, Sven has been traveling with us since 2011. Sven is a PADI dive instructor. Sven is also a new dad. We love having Sven as one of our PADI professionals.

Brad Holland (THE WORLD)

PADI Divemaster and photographer

Brad started diving with Kids Sea Camp in 2015. Brad is a PADI divemaster, underwater photographer, and world traveler. He loves new places, photographing divers, wreck diving, and traveling in undeveloped countries. Brad is a dedicated husband and now the father of his and Katy's newborn son Ronin. We are looking forward to meeting that little future KSC diver.

Peter Kockisch (GERMANY)

PADI IDC STAFF Instructor

We met Peter in Roatan and fell in love with his ability to teach and work with children. Peter is fun-loving, nurturing, and just made for KSC. He is an experienced special need instructor as well as a tech diver. Peter will be diving with us almost any week in 2024. He has a passion for conservation and in particular Coral Restoration. Peter leads by example and we are proud to have him with our team.

Jesse Alpert (PALAU/USA)

PADI Dive Instructor

Jesse's first KSC in 2014 in Palau. Jesse holds a B.S. in Marine Biology and is an avid photographer, videographer, and rebreather diver. Check out www.jessealpert.com

Kendall Williams (USA)

PADI Open Water Instructor

Kendal has been diving with Kids Sea Camp since she was certified as a PADI Jr. Open Water Diver. She and her family have traveled with us all over the world. Kendal is in school pursuing a career in nursing. Perfectly befitting as she is so good with kids. Kendal is nurturing, kind and like a mama bear in the water. She loves inspiring the next generation of divers and we are so very proud of the adult dive instructor she has become.

Kiley Thueson (USA)

PADI KSC Open Water Instructor

Kiley started diving with KSC in 2021 while she was working in Roatan at Turquoise Bay as the coral restoration and dive academy manager. She loves teaching people (especially kids) how to dive and about the importance of the many components of our oceans. Kiley is passionate about ocean conservation and loves to see how diving can change people’s perceptions of the ocean. She grew up in Texas and graduated from UT Austin with a BS Computational Biology.

Sharon Koen (South Africa)

PADI KSC Open Water Instructor

Sharon is a PADI Instructor, she has been working with Kids Sea Camp as a free-lance instructor in Palau for the past 7 years. Sharon loves teaching kids and will be with KSC this summer. From: South Africa