Leo Hoevers.

Leo started his diving career in the Netherlands 32 years ago as a young boy of just 15. He has been a PADI instructor since 1989 and holds a "Master Scuba Diver Trainer" instructor rating and is a certified "EFR instructor". Leo has left his wake behind in places like the lakes of Holland, the North-sea, moved through the Mediterranean sea through to the Red sea and the Caribbean ABC islands, and finally he ended up stranded in the year 1991 in the middle of the Indian Ocean on the most beautiful archipelago existing today, "The Seychelles Islands".  Diving in the Seychelles for the last 16 years has given him a rich knowledge of all of the inner islands and some of the 100 or so outer islands and what lays beneath them. He is a keen environmentalist and naturalist and loves to share this with his many diving friends, who he has gathered world-wide over the many years that he has been diving.

Together with his wife they have they have considerable experience managing a number of dive-centres, but since the year 2000 they have been their own bosses. 

Rachel Hoevers.

Rachel is a Seychelloise and together with Leo is the owner of DRS. She is also the dive-centre manager and makes sure that all dives and diving courses are properly planned, takes care of finance, administration, salaries for the staff and countless other things which fall under her responsibility. Very simply, without her, there would not be a DRS.

Grandy Michael Fanchette.

Grandy is a Seychellois and works with DRS as a licensed 2 Nm skipper, is trained as a Medic First-Aider and is the person that will move you in comfort to the various dive sites and back again to the dive centre. Grandy is not a certified diver yet, as somehow it seems there is no time for this in his busy working schedule! He likes being around people and has a great memory for storing words in different languages. Just one warning to you though - don't let him explain how the water tap works!

Joel Hoareau.

Joel is a Seychellois and works with DRS as the water-sports guy - he takes care of the canoes, windsurfing etc, He also helps out with the dive centre stuff - filling dive cylinders, carrying equipment on and off the boat, washing equipment, you name it, he is the man behind the scenes, a very very important member of the team. Joel has been a team member since early 2007.

Jonathan A. Richards.

Jonathan was born in Kenya and came to Seychelles with his family in 1999.  He studied at the Maritime Training Centre in Seychelles and it was there that he was introduced to the opportunity of working underwater. While at the MTC he was offered the chance to do his Divemaster training and after graduating he came to work for DRS in 2004. Jonathan loves being with people and diving is his great passion; in his line of work these two attributes make a good combination. Now, after having done a couple of thousand dives as a Divemaster, it is time to move forward and with a bit of luck he will be a PADI Instructor before the year is out.

The meaning of the DRS logo. The two shields in the logo, blue and red represent the two beliefs that owner Leo Hoevers has in diving. The blue stands for the world's oceans and the red shield that lays on top stands for safety, which he will never compromise.