Balazs Doczy
PADI Course Director, EFR Instructor Trainer
Balazs (alias Bali) started his career as a journalist and translator in Hungary. Then, in 2003, he started his diving career in Egypt and since then he has worked as a PADI instructor all around the world and taught people how to dive in Indonesia, Mexico, Honduras, Croatia, Cyprus and Hungary.
Since 2008 he has been involved in PADI IDCs and is one of the few PADI Instructors who have attended the PADI Course Director Training Course twice. First as a PADI Course Director and second as a translator. For several years now, he is also working as a translator for PADI for English to Hungarian and is the author of an English-Hungarian diving dictionary.
Bali has held the IDC at Dive2gether in Plakias on the south coast of Crete, Greece since 2016. In that time all his PADI Instructor candidates have passed the PADI IE (Instructor Examination).
Thijs Degenhart
IDC Staff Instructor
Thijs came to Dive2gether for the first time in 2017 with his family. He worked his way up from Open Water to Advanced Open Water within ths holiday period and was hooked on the diving virus. He returned in 2018 to start a bootcamp up until Master Scuba Diver. Finally, when he was old enough in 2019, he became a PADI Divemaster and a PADI Instructor the same year!
In 2020 and 2021, Thijs continued impressing us with his motivation and passion for diving, and because of his development and natural management skills, he was welcomed into Junior Management in 2022. This same year he did his IDC Staff Instructor course and actively assists in courses and is involved in crew training.
Thijs is known to have a great sense of humor and having a lot of patience. He will ensure diver safety and still keep the fun!