We Are Dive Maui

Renee Street – Instructor

Renee is a Midwest girl, having grown up and lived in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. After a decade working in Intellectual Property law in Chicago, she realized the Midwest was too far from the ocean and she decided to combine her love of the ocean, teaching, and travel and became a dive instructor. 

Since that time, she has taught scuba in Central America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific and spent over a year teaching on a 100m long sailing ship! Her passion for introducing people to the ocean’s wonders led her to become a scuba instructor trainer – inspiring more dive instructors to share their passion for the ocean with new divers!

When not teaching or exploring underwater, Renee spends her time spreading the message of ocean conservation to help protect our underwater treasures!

Abbi Nulty – Instructor

Abbi was born and raised in San Diego, California.  She grew up snorkeling, wakeboarding, innertubing, riding dirt bikes and snowboarding. Abbi was originally in pre-nursing school in college, but she was longing to do something more exciting. So she moved out to Maui and decided to try diving. She immediately fell in love with it and decided that it was the career path for her.  With the support of all of her best friends (who are all dive instructors), Abbi worked her way up to instructor. She is so happy to be a part of this incredible community, sharing my passion with other people who love the underwater world. When shes not diving, Abbi loves practicing acrobatics, cooking for all of her friends, and playing on the catamarans in Ka’anapali!

CJ Kessler – Owner

CJ learned to dive at Dive Maui as a kid and worked at the shop during summer breaks at school.  CJ is a devoted yogi and in 2016 yoga took her to Thailand where she also went diving and fell in love allover again.  She believes diving and yoga are forms of active meditation that open the mind and contribute to a collective consciousness with nature conservation at the heart.

CJ moved from Thailand to Indonesia and enrolled in PADI Divemaster and PADI Instructor courses. Here she met her husband, Nichlas, who is a dive instructor as well.  In August of 2018 CJ and Nichlas returned to Maui. When she’s not diving or on the mat CJ enjoys exploring and adventuring around the island with Nichlas and their dog, Zeppelin. 

Nichlas Holm – Owner

This handsome Viking is Nichlas Holm. Nichlas (there’s no “o”) hails from Denmark but has lived all over the world on different tropical islands for the last few years. He loves the Maui life above and below the water. His favorite marine animals are rays and sharks. If you stop by the shop chances are you’ll dive with Nichlas or see him using his handy engineering degree to fix anything and everything that needs fixing.

Ask him about anything to do with the water, or football (the European kind) his favorite team is Manchester United.

Scott Scharmer – Instructor

Scott grew up in Virginia where he spent most of his life. He always liked the water but never knew how to become a scuba diver until he went to college and took his open water class. Eventually Scott decided to become a scuba instructor and moved to Maui where he completed his divemaster and scuba instructor course. If reincarnation is real he would like to come back as a shark.