In April 1999, Ollie ventured on a holiday to the Caribbean, one that would have a significant impact on him. Whilst staying in the Dominican Republic, on the south coast, in a resort called Juan Dolio, Ollie decided to try out Scuba Diving! 
His diving instructor was Carole Trezise, and her then assistant (now husband) Piran Trezise, were charged with teaching Ollie scuba diving. 
Carole, Piran and Ollie went on to become great friends but not as any of them would have imagined at the time. 
That first lesson in the swimming pool struck vividly in the minds of Carole and Piran because unlike many of their students, Ollie had declared a phobia of fish! That evening after the pool lesson, they wondered how on earth Ollie would cope on the vibrant and teaning reefs of the Caribbean!
They needn’t have worried. On May 1st 1999, Ollie embarked on his first training dive, a dive that lasted for 30 min and it was clear Ollie was a natural and any fears had evaporated as soon as he set eyes on the undersea world!
On May 5th, Ollie qualified as an Open Water Diver with flying colours and his love of scuba diving had hatched. But before Ollie could leave the Dominican Republic, Carole famously convinced him to buy a vibrant pair of neon pink fins! 
On his return to the UK, influenced by his trip and immediate call of diving, Ollie decided on a career change and quickly accelerated through his Scuba qualifications to become an instructor himself!
Meanwhile, his own first instructor Carole and Piran moved back from the Caribbean and set up a Scuba School in Berkshire. So you can imagine their surprise when in 2001, on a scuba trip to Cornwall, they bumped into Ollie when filing their scuba tanks at the local diving shop. Could this Instructor be the same person that had been nervous to enter the water in the Caribbean? 
It sure was, and through their love of scuba diving, they quickly became good friends. 
Ollie travelled to Berkshire to help them give scuba courses and Piran and Carole regularly travelled to Cornwall to meet up for Scuba Trips – before moving to Cornwall permanently. They even met up in exotic destinations like the Red Sea, where Ollie would take groups of his own students on scuba trips. 
As the years passed and new careers bloomed, Ollie took on Goonhilly Earth Station (Piran’s new place of work) as a customer for the servicing of their many fire extinguishers. Ollie’s professionalism and way of working was always welcomed by the staff at Goonhilly, as it was by so many of the customers Ollie had built up. 
On many occasions, often at the Ferry Boat Inn on the banks of the Helford river, Piran and Ollie, Carole and Debs would discuss work and undersea stories – and more often then not, the story of Ollie’s first dive and those pink fins would come up!
Love, Piran and Carole 
RIP Ollie xxx