Meet Our Team
Meet Nathan Walker, Owner at Diver's Oasis.
Nathan started diving in 2024 and was hooked from the beginning. He dove constantly, building his skills and taking classes to enhance his knowledge of scuba diving. In 2025, Nathan started his technical dive training and completed his Divemaster training. When the opportunity arose in early 2026, Nathan bought Diver's Oasis, making scuba diving his career and hoping to continue the history and quality service it provides as the only locally owned dive shop in Springfield.
Bryan Bodnar
Bryan has been diving since 2012 and teaching since 2020. He is currently an IDC Staff Instructor, where he can assist with teaching the Instructor Development Course or teach Assistant Instructors, in addition to open water, advanced open water, rescue, and divemaster courses. In addition, he can teach any of the following specialties: self-reliant, underwater navigation, search and recovery, wreck, enriched air, emergency oxygen provider, diver propulsion vehicle, boat, digital underwater photography, peak performance buoyancy, AWARE coral reef conservation, and EFR. Bryan mostly enjoys diving in the warm, clear waters of the Caribbean but can also be found in local lakes.
Carl Schober
I took my first breath underwater in Cozumel in 2004 at Chankanaab Park. A young man named Gilmer waved me over with a “Try Scuba,” gave me a quick intro, and led me into the ocean. The moment I put my face in the water, I was hooked. We spent about 40 minutes exploring 20–25 feet, and I couldn’t stop talking about how incredible it was.
Back in the US, I found Steve’s Scuba and earned my Open Water certification, spending every weekend diving local lakes. I returned to Cozumel in 2005 for my Advanced course with Gilmer, and again in 2006 for Rescue Diver. Over the years, I kept diving—mostly in Cozumel—and got into spearfishing and night diving.
In 2023, after another trip to see Gilmer, I decided to become a PADI professional, so I could share that same first‑breath excitement with others. Choosing Divers Oasis was easy since it grew out of Steve’s Scuba, where I started. With 20 years of diving under my belt, I love teaching and watching new divers grow. A favorite moment was a 10‑year‑old at a Bubblemaker party telling me it was “the most EPIC birthday ever.”
When I’m not diving, I enjoy camping, kayaking, hiking, golfing, and traveling.
Jeff Rook
Jeff became a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer for Diver’s Oasis in 2018 with a variety of specialty instructor accreditations. He has been a certified Master Equipment Service Technician since 2001 and is certified on most scuba Equipment brands.
Jeff was certified by NASDS in 1993, completing his open-water dives in Cozumel, which was his first introduction to diving in the ocean. He later returned to Cozumel 27 more times as an instructor and trip host. Jeff became a local SSI Dive Control Specialist Instructor in 2001, training divers. In 2014, he joined the Diver’s Oasis (Steve’s Scuba) family, where he received his PADI instructor certifications in 2018. Jeff has hosted trips diving locally and to numerous destinations in the Caribbean, with his Pacific destinations consisting of Fiji and La Paz.