Yearly, we appoint a choose group of passionate ocean lovers and protectors to affix the PADI AmbassaDiver workforce. These people are chosen due to their dedication to marine conservation and their potential to encourage others to care about our oceans. At this time, we wish to introduce considered one of our 2024 AmbassaDivers, Captain Jason Chambers.
About Captain Jason Chambers
Hailing from Australia, Captain Jason Chambers has made a big mark because the youngest Captain of the Beneath Deck franchise. With over twenty years of expertise navigating the excessive seas, he has introduced a singular mix of management and charisma to the 2 seasons of Beneath Deck Down Below.
However Captain Jason’s love for the ocean goes past his profession as a yacht captain. He’s keen about marine conservation and makes use of his platform to encourage a brand new era of ocean lovers, making him a perfect alternative as a PADI AmbassaDiver.
We caught up with him for an unique interview to be taught extra about his journey, the enjoyment he finds in scuba diving and his present tasks.
A Life on the Water
Rising up in Australia, Captain Jason had easy accessibility to the ocean however fell upon his profession as a ship captain nearly by probability. “After touring round many continents, I stumbled throughout the business by way of a fellow traveler. With my commerce expertise as a plumber and mechanic, I discovered myself working as an engineering assistant on a yacht. I moved into engineering, after which, at 28 years outdated, I was requested to change into the Captain of that boat.”
Since then, Captain Jason has cast a profitable profession on superyachts worldwide. As we are able to see on the favored actuality present, it’s a tricky job, with lengthy hours and lots of duties. Nevertheless, it does enable him to be out on the water day-after-day. “What the ocean means to me is an infinite place to flee and discover. When engaged on the ocean, it appears like time simply stops, and it’s an enormous house that requires a number of respect.”
Even throughout his downtime, he nonetheless makes time for the ocean. “I attempt to atone for being a father, and I take pleasure in adventures, something to do with nature. However predominantly, diving is in each schedule.”
Scuba Diving: How It Started
“My first expertise diving was within the Bahamas, throughout which I was confronted by a big barracuda and fairly a big sleeping shark, which inevitably led me to wish to see extra.”
Captain Jason’s love for diving has solely grown through the years. He’s simply accomplished his Rescue Diver certification course within the Philippines, so we requested him what was subsequent. “I’m very comfy now being a Rescue Diver; I’m comfortable to acquire expertise on this stage for a while. However the deep blue abyss is looking, so I really feel some deep dives could be forward.”
Diving in Australia
As viewers, we’ve have adopted Captain Jason Chambers to a number of the most breathtaking diving areas over the 2 seasons of his hit TV present. “Being Australian, the Nice Barrier Reef is an iconic diving location globally. It’s an amazing location to showcase what Australia has to supply beneath the water.”
And though his work retains him busy on board, he nonetheless finds time to leap in when he can. “I take each second I can to leap within the water when on charters. Having spent the final eight years in distant areas in Asia and the Pacific, it’s a tremendous expertise to take pleasure in what’s beneath the water and additionally to inform the constitution friends what they’ll expertise.”
After we requested Captain Jason to share his favourite dive website on the Nice Barrier Reef, he responded with, “the world surrounding Lizard Island and the Ribbon Reefs.”
But, his most memorable dive was at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. He explains, “[This is] the place in a single small accessible location, you might be confronted with tiger sharks, nurse sharks, turtles, humpback whales, and whale sharks, all inside the stretch of 1 reef.”
Making an Influence for the Oceans and Past
As a PADI AmbassaDiver, Captain Jason needs to encourage others to take care of the ocean. “Diving permits you to perceive the big results that the ocean has on the setting, and it offers you respect for the results of the tide, relying on the moon and in addition human exercise. It’s not till being underwater and seeing all this that you’ve an understanding of mom nature, and what we as people can do to respect marine life and the way essential it’s for our survival.”
However his mission goes past the ocean. “I imagine in making a optimistic impression and eager to contribute to the betterment of societies all over the world.”
In addition to being a PADI AmbassaDiver, he works carefully with different organizations and causes.
“I’m working carefully with two foundations. One is educating communities in reusing plastic waste to construct lecture rooms which have been ravaged by earthquakes, Classroom of Hope. The opposite basis is Mares Basis, who are delivering literature showcasing marine life to entice poverty-stricken youngsters to realize extra ocean consciousness.”
Classroom of Hope
Classroom of Hope is a trigger that’s near Captain Jason’s coronary heart, as he explains: “It’s humorous how the Classroom of Hope and I met after constructing a resort and watching the plastic waste wash up on the seashores within the Philippines. I used to be in search of an answer. In Indonesia I discovered COH and Block Options that construct lecture rooms out of 100% recycled plastics. Offering good academic instruments for kids, not simply to grasp the plastic waste pandemic but additionally how schooling can present an alternate future.”
As an Ambassador for Classroom of Hope, Captain Jason has helped increase AUD $80,000 in 4 months to rebuild an Indonesian college broken by an earthquake. The college will present schooling in a protected house and sanitation for kids with out loos.
And that is solely the start. “If I may proceed doing that and produce such a challenge to the Philippines, that may be one thing my daughter can be happy with sooner or later.”
Construct Your Personal Ocean Legacy
Do you wish to make an impression on the oceans and past, too? Begin by altering your life and turning into a diver.
Not solely will you expertise the fantastic thing about the underwater world. You’ll additionally acquire a deeper understanding and respect for marine life and their habitats. Who is aware of, possibly subsequent 12 months you would change into considered one of our AmbassaDivers?
Be part of Captain Jason Chambers & PADI Membership in La Paz, Mexico
This October, PADI Membership members are invited to affix Captain Jason Chambers for a week-long journey in La Paz, Mexico. From 12-19 October, 2024, the fact TV star might be diving with PADI Membership members, giving a hearth chat and answering all of your burning questions. As well as, journey friends will take pleasure in three dives a day, exploring sunken wrecks and diving with sea lions. Be part of PADI Membership to get extra data and ebook this journey or to reap the benefits of the opposite money-saving membership advantages.
