About Us
Aum Rustage
Aum has dived all around Thailand, Bali, Komodo, and North and South Sulaweisi and is founder of Aum Scuba. She is a calm, confident and patient instructor, especially gifted with nervous divers and students. She is an amazing critter spotter, a Photographers dream!!! Aum started her career as the. assistant cook on a liveaboard exploring the Similan Islands in the Andaman sea. With borrowed equipment from the spares locker, she would sneak a dive in between meal times. Aum now has over 3500 dives under her belt and a fully qualified PADI and SSI Instructor. Aum speaks Thai and English
Nigel Rustage
Nigel is a PADI Staff Instructor, SSI Advanced Instructor and BSAC Open Water scuba Instructor. He started diving in the UK back in 2007, racking up a few hundred dives around the South West coast, Wales and the West of Scotland. In 2012, after spending 14 years in the police, he moved to Asia where he has been Cruise Director Liveabords in Thailand and Indonesia. As well as being an instructor, Nigel is also an experienced underwater photographer and Tec Diver. He loves to teach all levels of diving but especially enjoys running rescue courses and mentoring budding Divemasters.
