Jim Squires is one of the senior diving instructors on Lake Champlain with over 25 years of teaching experience. He teaches all levels of divers, including Rescue and Underwater Photography, and leads groups on diving vacations throughout the Caribbean. Jim considers himself fortunate to be able to combine two passions- diving and photography- into a dream hobby of underwater photography. Jim’s underwater photography has adorned the walls of Waterfront Diving Center for many years, and he has received awards in several photography contests, having won Coastal Photographers’ Guild (GA) Contest Best in Show (2009 and 2010), Little Cayman Digital Shootout (2010), Hawaii’s Kona Classic Underwater Photography Competition ( 2006) and Grand Cayman’s Digital Madness Photography Contest (2007). He is seldom seen underwater without a camera. Jim is also recognized nationally as an early education expert and currently serves as Senior Research Fellow for the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University. He spends time between Charlotte, Vermont, and Saint Simons Island, Georgia with his wife, Debbie, and Australian shepherd, Obie.