Meet the team

We founded Scubalife with a vision to redefine the way divers are trained and how they experience the underwater world.

We aim to continue expanding our diving skills and experiences so that safety and underwater comfort is enhanced on any diving activity.

We love to genuinely share our passion and inspire you to dive and explore the wonders of the Aegean Sea with us.

We offer a safe, versatile, and enjoyable dive experience from your first breaths on a shallow reef to deep wreck exploration.

Nikos Vardakas
Founder

Nikos Vardakas
Founder / Head Instructor

Nikos is the Founder and soul of Scubalife. He is a passionate and dedicated diver, explorer, and educator. With zest and enthusiasm, his purpose is to offer quality scuba diving training and experience at all levels.

Thanos Chondros
Instructor / Photographer

Thanos is a swimming instructor, skipper and professional lifeguard. Ten years ago he fell in love with diving and in 2019 he became an Open Sea Freediving Instructor. He is professionally engaged in underwater photography and in the last two years with the help of Nikos Vardakas he entered the world of technical diving and GUE.

How we got here

1999

Nikos started diving in 1999 and has been actively teaching since 2002 for numerous diving organizations. He is currently an active Hypoxic Trimix instructor with SSI and a Fundamentals instructor for GUE.

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2002

In 2002, on a quest to improve his skills and know-how, he came across the DIR (Doing It Right) philosophy, developed by GUE, adopting the principles that helped him develop a strong diving practice which continues to this day.

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2003

In 2003, he completed formal training in one of the first GUE classes ever held in the UK. He continues his GUE training with a Tech 1 class in Beirut in 2004 and a Cave 1 class in Florida in 2005.

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2009

He is also the GUE (Global Underwater Explorers) representative in Greece and, in 2009, was the first Greek to be certified as a GUE instructor. He hopes to pass on his knowledge to the Greek diving community.

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2010

In 2010 he created the [GUE Greece dive community] to promote news, events and projects that take place in Greece and worldwide. Besides continuous training, Nikos has also been involved in numerous shipwreck exploration projects in Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, Italy and England.

2012

2012 was the year that the concept of Scubalife was first developed. Scuba Diving as a way of life. Collaborating with Mythical Adventures, Nikos ran liveaboard trips in the Aegean using a traditional Greek wooden boat as the divebase. For more than three years, we offered tailor-made liveaboard trips in the western Cyclades as well as hosting diving courses onboard “ENA” introducing our clients to the underwater and above water beauty of the Aegean.

In 2018 he founded Scubalife Dive Centre with a vision to offer divers the opportunity to expand their diving frontiers and promote Greece as one of the best diving destinations in the Mediterranean.

2018

He founded Scubalife Dive Centre with a vision to offer divers the opportunity to expand their diving frontiers and promote Greece as one of the best diving destinations in the Mediterranean.

2020

Locked down during the global Corona virus pandemic, when all diving activities were suspended, he launched “Shipwrecks of the Greek Seas“ a weekly live session bringing old dive buddies and wreck experts together to present various wrecks in Greece.

2021

He became coordinator for the Ghost Diving Greece chapter and is dedicated to helping them on their global mission to remove lost fishing gear from the sea.