LEADING THE NEXT GENERATION OF DIVE TRAINING

WHO WE ARE

Frog Kick Diving was founded in 2005 by Brian Wiederspan and Jeanna Edgerton with the goal of raising the bar and setting the standards of dive instruction. Since then, Brian and Jeanna have taught over 200 students a safer and more enjoyable way of diving meanwhile building a reputation for providing the highest quality dive training in Puget Sound as well as the West Coast.

In December 2008, Brian and Jeanna were 2 of 9 instructors, worldwide, handpicked to participate the first ever IDC/Crossover for Unified Team Diving (UTD) International.  UTD is a new training agency, formed by Andrew Georgitsis, former Training Director of Global Underwater Explorers (GUE).  Brian and Jeanna’s reputations and uncompromising standards earned them each an invitation to the  IDC/Crossover.  Crossover participation was by invitation only, from Andrew.

We're extremely excited to be a part of UTD.  UTD's philosophy is quite unique, and very similar to our teaching philosophy:

UTD, or Unified Team Diving, is an inclusive philosophy that unifies the team towards the dive, ultimately improving the safety, conformity and competence of the team and the members and therefore the enjoyment of the dive.

We continue to teach NAUI courses, as always.  UTD allows us to offer a broader training curriculum to our students. 

NAUI (National Association of Underwater Instructors) allows us to provide high quality, non-utd/dir training.  As NAUI Instructors, we are given the latitude to teach beyond the minimum required standards of each course.  This is extremely important to us, and is a major advantage for the student.  For more information on NAUI training, please see our NAUI Page.


In our courses, we emphasize approaching every dive with a similar mindset, including gas management, team communication, propulsion techniques, buoyancy control, proper dive planning, and minimizing risks and handling contingencies.  We also stress the importance of respecting the underwater environment so future divers can enjoy the wonderful world we have the privilege of visiting.

Above all, we always stress the reason we all dive...to have FUN.

In addition to being very active instructors, Brian and Jeanna spend an equal amount of time on their own fun dives, underwater explorations and projects.  They're both avid wreck, technical and cave divers.  If they aren't teaching, they're exploring, or planning and researching their next project.  

For them, diving is neither a job nor a hobby.  It's a way of life.


BRIAN WIEDERSPAN - Brian's Bio
  • UTD Trimix Instructor / Instructor Trainer #014
  • NAUI Technical Instructor #42629
  • UTD Cave 2

JEANNA EDGERTON - Jeanna's Bio

  • UTD Instructor #012
  • NAUI Instructor #42630
  • UTD Trimix
  • UTD Cave 2

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