About CAPT. RON BEERMÜNDER
NAUI Instructor: # 44176

    Born on October 13, 1970, Ron Beermunder is originally
    from Branford, Connecticut. He graduated Branford High
    School in 1988 and then attended Southern Connecticut
    State University graduating with a Bachelor of Sciences
    Degree in Communications in 1993. Ron is a proud and
    active member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and
    remains a chapter advisor for his fraternity's local
    chapter at the University of West Florida. In 1998, Ron
    entered the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal
    Spec Warfare training program located in Panama City,
    Florida. There, he went through EOD dive school (EOD
    Class 98-20). After four years of sea-duty serving in the
    Persian Gulf on board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft
    carrier, Ron completed four more years as a water
    survival instructor under the command of Naval Survival
    Training Institute in Pensacola, Florida where he worked
    for legendary Navy diver and 30 year NAUI instructor
    Ray E. Smith. Ron is a published water survival expert
    who specialized in research, development, and
    fabrication of new water survival equipment and training
    devices for all branches of the U.S. Military. Honorably
    discharged from the Navy in January 2005,  Ron remains
    in Pensacola as the owner/ operator of the Pensacola
    Dive Company and captain of the Sea Sherpa, the
    fastest dive boat in Pensacola.
     Capt Ron is a graduate of Hall's Diving Career Institute,
    the number one diving instructor training facility in the
    world.
    Certifications:
    NAUI SCUBA Instructor
    USCG  Licensed Charter Boat Captain
    Diver's Alert Network (DAN) Instructor; and
    American Red Cross CPR & First-Aid Instructor.
You will be dive trained better than Navy
divers and without all the push-ups!