Growing the best divers on the planet and exploring the world over.
- Diving is the passion.
- Diving the world-over is the adventure.
- Teaching, training, and certifying hands-down the best divers on the planet is the mission.
- Growing a competent, confident, capable dive community, that truly cares about the health of the oceans, the planet, and each other, is the goal.
Pinnacle Diving Company, LLC, is an American veteran-owned English-speaking professional diving agency currently based in Kanagawa, Japan. PDC offers:
- Expedition Diving opportunities for certified divers and dive groups,
- NAUI Education and Training to certify new divers and advance the education and training of certified divers,
- Professional training services for educational institutions in need of a diver training program, and
- Occupational SCUBA diving services to organizations either public, private, and government alike.
PDC is available for contracting for dive training and certifications, expeditions and diving events, and professional / occupational SCUBA diving services.
AJ Powell (USA, Ret.) - Owner / Dive Officer
AJ is the owner of Pinnacle Diving Company and the company's senior Dive Officer.
AJ is a retired U.S. military veteran who served in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. He first learned to dive while serving in the Navy, and has since been blessed (or cursed) with opportunities to dive in some of the most challenging and demanding environments and conditions around the world.
AJ is a professional occupational diver, adventure / expedition diver, certified technical diver, and certified NAUI dive instructor. He has over 1,100+ logged dives and more than 850+ logged hours accumulative underwater time, mostly in cold open-ocean waters, using both open and closed circuit systems, as well as surface-supplied systems.
As an independent NAUI dive instructor, AJ has taught and trained both military service members and civilians alike to become well-educated, competent, confident, capable, and safe divers, who are passionate about diving and growing in their diver KSA’s.
