Our Story

About Us

As an Internationally Accredited Life Coach, Chad has a strong background in personal development & promoting wellness amongst his clients. He also holds a Breathwork Facilitator certification and is well placed to teach you how to improve your diving, as well as your top-side life, through mindfulness techniques & breath control. Chad has been showing people how to breathe for better diving on the Great Barrier Reef for over 15 years. 

Haylie comes from the education sector & holds a Bachelor of Exercise Science, along with a Graduate Diploma in Education. She has over 10 years of experience teaching in the subject area of Personal Development, Health & Physical Education. She served as a regional representative for the NSW PDHPE Teacher’s Association & was instrumental in initiating projects around student wellbeing. Eight years ago she packed her bags, relocated to Far North Queensland & switched her classroom from the sports field to the ocean. She’s been teaching scuba skills ever since. 

In 2022, we combined our specialised skill sets and together founded Resurface Dive, a company that understands the fatiguing modern world and recognises the use of scuba diving as an outlet for stress relief. We offer unique and bespoke scuba diving services to high-end clientele in the Port Douglas region. The lessons, the techniques and the skills taught in scuba diving are transferrable to everyday life. And we want to reinforce that and show our divers that what they learn underwater can be utilised back on dry land. Our customers will receive high quality scuba instruction, along with guidance on how to unlock their human potential and achieve deep inner peace. Diving with Resurface will teach customers the practise of calming a busy mind and allow them to experience the strength and beauty of ones innerself, through immersive scuba experiences. We hope that Resurface can reduce the damage that stress causes in our community by helping community members to realise that the ocean and diving can be used as a tool to reconnect and “resurface” in a time where humans are struggling to stay on top of the stresses of life.

We created this business because we believe that the world needs it. Particularly right now, post COVID, the current state of the world, indicates a desperate need to address stress, anxiety and mindset. We are scuba dive instructors who know all too well the benefits that diving can bring to a persons health and we wanted to show others the benefits that scuba diving can have on their life. We understand the stresses of a busy life and we know that scuba diving helps to calm a busy mind and facilitate a connection and experience like no other. Diving into the ocean allows us to relax, unwind, de-stress, lose ourselves, take adventures, explore and most importantly come back to the present moment. 

Haylie is personally invested in this business and it’s mission, because she came from big city living, where she experienced the stresses of traffic jams, work deadlines and pressure, hustle and bustle, people rushing everywhere they went, everyone too busy to notice life. She found herself lost amongst a sea of stress and burnout. She personally used scuba diving as method to escape that and rebuild herself into a calmer, more self accepting version of herself.  

Chad has experienced his own ‘resurfacing’ of sorts, after a traumatic plane crash left him questioning many things about life. Whilst stoked to still be alive it started a chain of thoughts that continually added pressure and expectation on himself to make the most out of life, which in turn actually had the reverse effect to the point of feeling like he was still drowning unable to surface. He used diving to help himself and wants to show others how to do the same.