Trident Warriors

Trident Warriors We offer free diver training to all Combat Veterans as a way of saying thanks for their service.

It is certainly no easy feat to create and host a complex three phase expedition which is typical of   where we focus on...
26/04/2026

It is certainly no easy feat to create and host a complex three phase expedition which is typical of where we focus on inclusivity to allow everyone from all walks of life the opportunity to join us on incredible adventures and in the process do something amazing by helping us to raise funds to cover the operational costs of training combat veterans in Scuba Diving skills to help them overcome the trauma of military service,

The current project https://tridentwarriors.org/events/egypt-north-wreck/ with only 4 spots left is a Dahab Blue Hole phase followed by an 8 night liveaboard diving all of the most incredible rusty shipwrecks of the Northern Red Sea and finally to those land lubber tourist type a third and final phase to Cairo to absorb the sights of the Pyramids of Saqqara, Memphis, Sakkara, and Giza with a camel ride and lunch whilst staying in the beautiful city Island of Zamalek Island.

As the organizer that is drowning in the administration of pulling all of this together including renting a massive 36 diver yacht, over 260 hotel room stays, a ton of transport logistics, training plans and myriad of other bits and pieces, I would like to personally extend my thanks to for throwing a proper wrench into the entire plan and showing zero customer relations skills by working to resolve it until I navigated my way through an insane maze with the help of ChatGPT and failing in helpdesk phone calls, Turkish Whatsapp support, corporate emails and eventually creating a twitter X account to wake them up. Finally I have a solid plan, a real phone number and today I start the painful task of fixing 16 broken segments because Turkish decided to just shut down all flights over the summer to a massive airport (Hurghada) leaving us with no other choice than to do a brutal 5 hour drive to Cairo. Good on ya Turkish. This one is for you!

It’s been over a year since I touched or even placed eyes or hands on my CCR gear whilst I focused on building muscle me...
19/04/2026

It’s been over a year since I touched or even placed eyes or hands on my CCR gear whilst I focused on building muscle memory and sorting out my terrible trim on twinsets with deco gases so that I could confidently step into the daunting next level of Technical Instructor so that I could offer free technical diver training to combat veterans under

Finally taking time for myself to go diving with good friends that I’ve had to put on the shelf for far too long.

Now starts the task of blowing the dust off the Rebreathers (an incredible and reliable ISC Meg15 like a trusty Labrador but a pig to travel with and on the other spectrum a M3S Triton which is incredible to travel with but behaves more like a Chihuahua).

6 brand new O2 cells, finicky obscure lithium handset battery and a task list as long as my arm to get through before I start packing. Not going to lie, I’m in my happy space again. Cheerio Filthy Open Circuit lol.

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02/04/2026

FRIENDS please please please share this… help me to get the word out. Even if you’re not a diver.. join in the competition and gift it to a friend or better yet a veteran if you win! It’s a tax donation write off too.

Trident Warriors is a non profit focused on bringing Scuba experiences to Military Veterans. We also welcome non military civilians to join the fun too. We are giving you the chance to win ONE free spot on our Egypt 2026 Live Aboard. All you have to do is watch the video, go to the link provided, read the rules and complete the form by guessing the correct 5 medal ribbon assignments to enter the competition.

With your support, we can bring more veterans into the water and into a stronger, more connected future.

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🌊 Support the Mission https://tridentwarriors.org/donate-after-feedback/
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Meet Scuba Squaddie 🌊This is the official introduction of a new character, a new story—and a mission that goes far beyon...
29/03/2026

Meet Scuba Squaddie 🌊

This is the official introduction of a new character, a new story—and a mission that goes far beyond the surface. One built to inspire, support, and uplift our nation’s combat veterans through the power of the ocean.

Scuba Squaddie © was created to shine a light on the work being done by TridentWarriors, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting veterans through the life-changing experience of scuba diving. Through our programs, veterans are given the opportunity to train and dive while also gaining access to expeditions, gear, training, and merchandise at veteran-focused pricing—all within a community built by volunteers for veterans.

Our goal is simple: grow this movement, reach more people, and show what’s possible when we come together to support those who served.

This mission is powered by something bigger than us.

Every piece of gear, every expedition, every training course, and every item of merchandise purchased by Joe Public helps fund these programs—giving more veterans the chance to heal, build community, and rediscover purpose beneath the water.

This video is just the beginning.

Scuba Squaddie represents more than just a character—it’s a symbol of healing, camaraderie, and purpose. With your support, we can bring more veterans into the water and into a stronger, more connected future.

🌊 Dive deeper. Support the mission. Join the movement.

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Meet Scuba Squaddie 🌊This is the official introduction of a new character, a new story—and a mission that goes far beyond the surface. One built to inspire,...

On this day 35 years ago we were required to do something unthinkable, something that still haunts many soldiers to this...
25/02/2026

On this day 35 years ago we were required to do something unthinkable, something that still haunts many soldiers to this day. Having spent months preparing for war and conditioning our bodies and minds for what was expected to be a gruesome task we set off on a journey to free a country of tyranny but the price that many paid to give the citizens of that country their freedom back is still something that many suffer to contain even to this day.

At 18 years old having to condition yourself that ‘today is the last day that I may see a sunset or a sundown, that I may take a breath of the dry hot air of the desert or a myriad of other thoughts’.

I founded for this very reason. To try to give peace to the men and women including myself that have been forced to think ‘today is the day that I will die’!

Please think about those painful 8 words and understand that there are days that something somewhere just comes out and smacks you right in the gut for no reason, or maybe a tiny trigger or a scent or a sound or a single word can be the catalyst that sends you spiraling downwards.

Please be weeble wobbles my friends and bounce back. Never stay down, always come back to us. I had a crushing moment myself last week that resulted in uncontrollable sobbing and an inability to get words out, it hurt a lot and it was hard to contain, infact i didn’t contain it. Luckily i was in safe space with somebody whom i trusted to not judge me. I failed to keep it locked in and compartmentalize like ive learned to do but after some in water therapy of diving i was able to get myself back together.

Keep fighting your demons brothers and sisters and find a purpose to keep going. I’m here 24x7 for any of you that need an ear or a shoulder.

Please join us to pay homage to Ryan 'Sarge' Payne, a veteran of the US Military and Scuba Diving Instructor who sadly l...
06/02/2026

Please join us to pay homage to Ryan 'Sarge' Payne, a veteran of the US Military and Scuba Diving Instructor who sadly lost his life and left our oceans on January 6th 2026. We would love to hear your stories of how 'Sarge' affected you in your life so that we may give his family something from the diving community where he was loved, admired and respected so much by so many of us.

The meeting invite is open for 2 hours and has a limit of consecutive participants so please if you are unable to access the link then please keep trying as we know Sarge was an incredible and popular man.

Check the time zone image for your local times and adjust accordingly. It is set for 10pm East Coast USA on 09th February and 10am Manila time zone on 10th February 2026. IF you miss it and would like to record a message then please feel free to record yourself and drop one in my personal inbox and I will take care of it.

Link to meeting: https://meet.zoho.com/wuza-waz-gkf

For those of you that are Trident Warriors scuba diving and underwater friends. There is a very interesting presentation...
21/10/2025

For those of you that are Trident Warriors scuba diving and underwater friends. There is a very interesting presentation coming up in about 15 minutes, which talks about rec compression in water.

You would use this kind of medical treatment for a Diver that is suffering with decompression sickness or the bends when they are in an extremely remote location or in situations where it is the best option at the time.

There is a lot of debate within the technical diving community as to whether this is or is not a viable solution or if it is safe or recommended. There will be many opinion, shared, and industry experts voicing their fast amount of knowledge on this subject and I highly recommend it for any Diver even just to make yourself aware.

It is a free presentation that you can join just by going to this link https://ntnu.zoom.us/j/95799471599?pwd=lP7BdYBgtMhKRXsd2M2qda98S8Tiap.1

I did a thing today that I’ve been meaning to do for over ten years and just never got around to it. My FIRST ever vehic...
12/06/2025

I did a thing today that I’ve been meaning to do for over ten years and just never got around to it. My FIRST ever vehicle that I purchased when I arrived in the USA as an immigrant fresh off the jetway.. this delightful Ford F150 stick shift 🥰 rear wheel drive nightmare in the snow truck took me on so many journeys as I fumbled my way through my first 8 years as a US resident before becoming an American citizen.

I have had this page that I cut out from one of those grocery papers that clog our mail boxes pinned to my corkboard for too long. Yesterday I took action, called the number and today that remnant of the start of my most wonderful journey in becoming an American has now left the confines of my 30 acre ‘compound’ 🤭

As the tow truck departed driving out of my road ‘Britannia Ddive’ that I was shockingly allowed to name when I moved here 😛 I waved cheerio to a little bit of history.

Friends please… if you have a vehicle sitting around gathering dust and growing rust and have no idea what to do with it then please… donate it to these guys!! I am always cautious of charities so I asked lots of questions. It turns out that carshelpingvets.org is legit and they auction the vehicles after some cleaning up and minor repairs and then they donate the sales to any one of about 100 veteran charities on their books.

is now listed as one of their charities so please, if you do donate a vehicle can you please specifically ask that the proceeds are directed to Trident Warriors so that we can continue our mission.

21/05/2025

As Pétur Lockton fast approaches the end of his tough and intense first technical diver training course it he is feeling the pressure. Every day is a day with room for improvement but sometimes it doesn’t feel like that.

Here’s what we can do for you at we can show you love, compassion, laughter in adversity, high standards, understanding, empathy and a hug if you really need it.

I am so proud of you mate. You’ve spent 3 years training with us coming up from an open water diver with 22 dives meeting us on our Egypt expedition to being just 45 metres away and a few deco stops to being the FIRST Trident Warriors technical diver as an Advanced Nitrox and Decompression diver.

You’ve worked incredibly hard mate. Just one more day.. I know you can do it! Good luck tomorrow! 🥰 who knows… maybe tomorrow you will do something right 😂 Tough love and good strong encouraging feedback with constant reassurance and polite bollockings. 😂❤️

19/05/2025

Today was another lovely day of training conducting emergency drills during the advanced Nitrox and decompression procedures Diver training for Pétur Lockton with me shadowing the amazing Matt Reed as instructor and myself also acting as dive buddy. It was a day filled with personal frustrations based on expectations of oneself. For me, reaching excellent instructor quality was severely lacking and I will let Petur tell you how he felt.

The video and drills that you see here are where I myself experienced a dramatic gas failure on the twin sets. Later in a subsequent exercise I had a lost mask and then during the lost mask I had a similar catastrophic gas loss drill. This week has been the first time that I have worn this configuration in almost 5 years and my original instructor can test to how much I despise this configuration. However, it is necessary and a fundamental foundation for TDI technical instructors to have pro proficiency in it.

It just takes time and practice and a lot of determination. One day will be able to offer this course to military combat veterans for free. For now, I’m just trying to reach that next level to give veterans something truly remarkable.

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