Coravelle
Coral and caravel: the reef and the voyage. A dive house built on one idea: the people who plan your diving should be divers themselves.
Wayne D. Burdette Jr.
PADI Dive Instructor. Thirty years as a firefighter, paramedic and tactical paramedic. Former paramedic instructor and instructor at Emory University in Atlanta, NAEMT adjunct instructor across all of its disciplines, and former regional faculty for the American Heart Association, which is to say a career spent teaching people to stay calm when it matters. For the last decade also a working cinematographer and producer with more than forty credits, which is a career spent coordinating a hundred moving parts so that one moment lands.
Coravelle brings those together: private instruction with a medic's patience, trips planned with a producer's logistics, and the honesty to tell you when a site is not for you yet.
Coravelle is the dive and travel house of Valestra Private, the private membership concierge Wayne founded in Nashville.
Red Alert Diving
Our certification dives and Gulf charters run with Red Alert Diving in Panama City Beach, Florida: a PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Center with wreck, reef and spring diving and more than fifty combined years of instructor experience. Coravelle brings the private instruction and the travel; Red Alert brings the boats, the pool and the Panhandle.