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Scuba Mom, Margo with her two children, Robbie and Jennifer, married Thomas Peyton on Feb 18, 2006.

Margo Peyton, "Scuba Mom " Attends Kids Sea Camp with their children Robbie and Jennifer, and when he has time off from his career “News Paper Editor” Tom Peyton “Scuba Dad” joins a few weeks of family camp adventures too.

Margo as an avid diver since 1989, PADI Dive Master and travel enthusiast owned Caribbean Adventures and World Dive Adventures a Peyton Family Portrait leading Travel Agency, Specializing in Dive Tours for over 10 years, (www.worlddive.com) Margo realized a need in the dive travel industry for family vacation programs that would ensure scuba diving enthusiasts one fantastic vacation for all. Kids Sea Camp combines a fun, safe and educational dive program for kids, and equal relaxing and private time for their parents. As a result, she created a complete program designed to give parents a memorable family dive vacation and their children an experience of a lifetime, meeting other kids from around the world learning to dive, as well as building a common thread to love and protect our oceans ensuring the future of diving for years to come.

Margo Peyton to be inducted into
The Women Divers Hall of Fame

Women Diver Hall Of Fame The Women Divers Hall of Fame has announced that Margo Peyton will be inducted into this prestigious group this year. The Women Divers Hall of Fame is an international not-for-profit organization established to recognize the elite and outstanding women divers whose achievements have enriched the worldwide scuba diving community.
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About Margo Peyton
- President Kids Sea Camp Inc.

Margo Peyton, President Kids Sea Camp Margo became a travel agent in 1986, having graduating from College with a degree in Travel & Tourism A certified diver since 1988, after much traveling around the world, she moved to the Cayman Islands in 1991. Working as a travel agent and tour guide she logged over 2000 dives exploring many destinations around the world including the Cayman's. Returning to Florida in 1995, Margo joined Caribbean Adventures and World Dive Adventures Dive Travel, which she purchased in 1999. Being a working mother of two, Margo had to spend a lot of time leading groups and on the few times she was able to travel with her family, she was unable to find Resorts or destinations with suitable kids' programs. Driven by frustration, Margo began to research and seek out family-friendly resorts with fun, educational ocean oriented children's programs. She has since dedicated herself to bringing families and diving together through Kids Sea Camp. Kids Sea Camp gives kids a fun filled week of education and underwater adventures, and their parents a guilt-free dive vacation. Margo is also an underwater photographer and artist; she works with local schools doing seminars and educational marine oriented in classroom presentations. Margo contributes to Oceans for Youth, Ocean Pals, Sea of Tomorrow, Ocean Wishes and many other charities, donating, proceeds, trips and art work for silent Auctions where 100% of funds go to her favorite charities.

Margo Peyton is a PADI Dive Master, Rescue Diver, and has the following dive certifications-under water navigator, deep diver, wreck diver, UW Photo diver, equipment specialist, Nitrox diver, night diver, Digital photo and Master Diver. She has had the privilege to work with the National Sea Shore on Research and recovery missions. Margo was certified to dive with some of the crew from Whydah Expeditions while excavating a pirate ship wreck with Captain Jon Beyer, who presented her with her certification at East Coast Divers in Hyannis Ma. Margo has dove all over the world since and is an avid wreck diver, and certified deep diver. Margo has experience in leading trips on big animal expeditions as well as eco adventure group trips which have inspired her to create family Adventures.

Margo is now dedicating her future to supporting and educating our children about the Ocean and hopes to inspire children and their families to not only enjoy but protect our underwater world.

About Tom Peyton

Tom Peyton became a diver when he met Margo in 2005, Certified in Curacao with Ocean Encounters together with his new step son Robbie and daughter Jennifer, Tom has embraced diving and traveling around the world with his new family. Tom’s background is incredible. He had a play be produced off Broadway, editor for Newspapers winning hundreds of National awards as Art Director, illustrator and now an editor. Tom has owned his own gallery as a talented acrylic painter, and continues today to turn out magnificent creations of nature and marine life on canvas for charities of Kids Sea Camp. Some of his prints will be available in our online gallery. He has directed many creative workshops based on the book called the Artist’s Way. His work has been on display at the Ambassador Gallery in South Florida as well in Soho in NY City.

Tom Peyton's Art In addition Tom has an amazing vocal talent, with two albums as lead singer of an acoustic rock band from South Florida. He has performed for Kids Sea Camp families in the Cayman Islands and Honduras and Fiji. Tom’s album can be heard or purchased on i-tunes under “Heart of The Rose”. Tom is currently a senior editor over photography and visuals at a newspaper. Tom loves to attend Kids Sea Camp where he can to sing, shoot photos, paint and dive with his family.

About Robbie:

obbie Peyton Born in the Cayman Islands in 1994, Robbie grew up at the beach and in the ocean. He was swimming on his own at age 6 months, and has never looked back. Robbie began swimming with manatee at age 5, dolphins at age 6 and Sea lions at 9. Robbie loves the ocean and its inhabitants and is looking forward to the Galapagos trip. He will hopefully snorkel with wild sea lions and see his first Whale Shark.

Robbie loves to paint and is a very good artist. He likes working with Ron Rogest on graffiti art projects. His favorite things to do at Kids Sea Camp are making new friends and seeing his dive buddies year after year. He loves blow carting in Bonaire, zip lining and shark diving in Roatan. He loves being back home in Grand Cayman and diving with Sea Scooters. He loves diving with Christian at Ocean encounters in Curacao and his favorite place is Fiji where he loves having thanksgiving with his Sea Camp family. Robbie is looking forward to shark diving in the Bahamas. His goal is to become a Diver Master and instructor as soon as he is old enough.

Robbie is also creating with his mom the new Eco Adventure in Costa Rica for 2009. As a assistant pioneer to his mom, Robbie repelled down a 364-foot cliff, worked level 3 & 4 white water wafting trips through the mountains, went horse back riding through the rain forest and enjoyed a volcano mud bath. Robbie dove for the first time in the Pacific side of Costa Rica with Bill and Nadine Beard and encountered chocolate chip star fish, white tip sharks and schools of Eagle Rays along with his first experience with Humpback Whales and wild dolphins. He hiked through the cloud forest and the La Paz waterfalls.

Dive Training accomplishments PADI Open Water diver 2005- PADI Advanced Diver, photo Diver, Adventure Diver, Fish ID, Buoyancy diver, National Geo Diver, Shark Diver, 200+ dives. Seal Team 2003, Master Seal team 2004, PADI digital photo, DPV Certification and Dolphin trainer level 4- Curacao Sea Aquarium 2004/5/.

About Jennifer:

Jennifer Peyton Born in Florida 1996
Jennifer is an amazing free diver. She can hold her breath 2.5 min and dive 30-feet, she learned to swim and free dive with the dolphins of Curacao. Jennifer has grown up from the age of 4 under the wings of her aquatic dolphin family Dee Dee, Copan, Annie and GiGi. She loves her trainers George and Livy, Rona and modeling for underwater photographer Barry Brown. Jennifer has worked with baby dolphins such as Pepito, Lina and Chabalita all born at the Curacao Sea Aquarium. She has often worked with them to swim with her and do tricks for her such as foot pushes and rocket launches and waves. Jennifer is a dolphin trainer and has grown to love and understand these beautiful animals and thinks it’s vital for facilities like the one in Curacao, Roatan and Grand Bahamas to exist. These facilities allow their animals to swim free in the open ocean and give birth and have healthy happy families. These facilities promote education through interaction and create awareness that will hopefully motivate humans to protect and care for them and their environments.

Jennifer also became a certified diver at age 10 in 2006 at Fiji Kids Sea Camp. She prefers working with animals to diving, but has attained many certifications for her age, Fish ID, Adventure Diver, Photo and Buoyancy. She loves diving with turtles in Curacao and swimming and releasing them from the turtle farm in Grand Cayman. She loves the Blue Star fish and clown fish in Fiji and like to take underwater photos. Her favorite experiences with Kids Sea Camp is helping run the Treasure hunt and handing out prizes to all the kids, she loves watching Baby turtles hatch in Bonaire and Blow carting and getting licked by wild donkeys. Jennifer likes riding horses on the beach every day in Roatan and diving with sea scooters in Grand Cayman, She loves Curacao most of all as she grew up there. She loved going to Grand Bahamas and meeting new Dolphin friends at Unexso. Jen loves to paint and enjoys meeting new friends at Kids Sea Camp.

About Women Divers Hall of Fame Carolyn Pascal:

Pioneer, leader, innovator throughout the international diving community.

Carolyn is currently the Publisher Florida Travel and Life. She was the publisher of Sport Diver magazine, Islands Magazine. She focuses on dive market development and creating multimedia programs that contribute to industry growth. Over her 25-year dive career, Carolyn has traveled extensively working to increase dive tourism. She is an active member of the Caribbean Hotel Association, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, and has led many dive seminars and roundtable discussions. Carolyn has also played an active role in the development of Kids Sea Camp events with her daughter Melissa Pascal-Gaurino, and has been involved in photojournalism both behind and in front of the camera.

Carolyn, also a scuba mom, has been apart of Kids Sea Camp since its birth in 2001, Melissa then 6 years old and a SASY snorkeler, Certified PADI diver in Grand Cayman in 2005. She now has advanced diver and many specialties; Melissa is following in her mother’s foot steps, writing for Kids Sea Camp and Sport Diver Magazine. She is also an assistant councilor to many of our Seal team and SASY programs. Carolyn and Melissa attend many of the Kids Sea Camps each year and enjoy meeting new friends and getting reacquainted with many past families with kids that have grown up in Kids Sea Camp over the years. Melissa loves Blow carting in Bonaire, she loves horse back riding and diving in Roatan. She loves painting with Ron Rogest and riding sea scooters in Grand Cayman. But her favorite KSC adventure is Fiji where she enjoys diving with all her friends over Thanksgiving holidays.

About Rogest: Rogest is Ron G. Steven

Rogest Dive instructor, North American Group representative for Mike Ball Expeditions Australia, Famous Marine Artist, and Huge Asset to Kids Sea Camp since 2003, working with both Kids Sea Camp kids and adults: Painting, Poetry, song and Dance.

Many years ago, Ron changed his career path from a man in a business suit behind a desk to a dive instructor in shorts working on liveaboard dive vessels. Years later he finds himself painting the underwater critters from the thousands of exceptional dives he has experienced world wide but primarily on the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean, Tahiti, Mexico and the colder waters of the west coast of Canada.

"For most of my life I have felt a creative yearning inside of me, however it has only been in the last few years that I discovered an avenue to express it. This discovery came about on a trip to South America where a chance meeting with a deeply spiritual and talented artist encouraged me. The timing was right and I knew it was time to put paint to canvas.

The brilliant colours and bio-diversity of this underwater environment has undoubtedly influenced my paintings. The vivid underwater images I have experienced have burned a vibrant seascape into my imagination. This is the source of my inspiration.

To me art is a way of conveying to our children, future generations and us the importance of looking after our lands, our oceans. I plan to do my next series on this topic. www.rogest.com

At Kids Sea Camp, kids learn to swim, snorkel and scuba. They learn all about fish identification and reef identification and ways to save our oceans and our reefs. In a friendly, safe atmosphere, they lose their fears, develop confidence and fall in love with the ocean. Mom and Dad have the opportunity to enjoy their love for the underwater world with guilt-free diving. Together, at the end of each day, the family shares in all they have experienced and learned.

Meeting all the educational standards, Kids Sea Camp has been hand picked by PADI Diving Society, and PADI as a sponsored program. Kids Sea Camp is hosted at PADI 5 star facilities and exceeds all PADI standards for safety and instruction, presenting each family with opportunities for PADI seal Team, Jr. Open Water Certification and SASY, as well as Adult certification and Specialty and Advanced Open Water courses. Kids Sea Camp is now the worlds largest Dive Event, and one of the fastest growing certification programs for kids. Margo believes the future of our underwater world is in our children’s hands and being an ambassador for them is one of the most rewarding experiences of her life and a position she is very proud to have the opportunity to hold.

Greatest thanks to the many that makes up our team and whom we would not be as successful with out:
Tammy & Bob Masterson, & Carly Post - Reservations & sales
Joanie Battaglia - Photographer and assistant to Margo
George Gardner - Scuba Dad and KSC helper
David Benz - Sport Diver Magazine for so so much support not only as a scuba dad with 3 beautiful teen divers, but for photography, writing and all the great swag! www.sportdiver.com
Alan Davis –Scuba Dad and KSC Santa Clause- For all the love he brings to KSC staff and operators, for his Macdonald runs at the airport and for helping the children of Fiji.
Scuba Pro - for supporting KSC with donations and support from its inception. www.scubapro.com
PADI - Theresa Gulledge - For being the foundation of training, professionalism and support for KSC. www.padi.com

Thank you PADI 5- Star-Dive Centers who make it all happen, for believing in our future, the children and for believing in me. Nolo Ambrosi – Ocean Encounters; Nancy & Jay Esterbrook - Dive Tech; Michelle & Paul Augusto – Buddy Dive; Marc & Nikki –Unexso; Jeff Shaw & Joan Marsao –Castaway Fiji; Haydee, Samir, Yolanda, Kevin, Eldon - Anthoney Key; Wayne Brown - Aggressor.

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