10-35 Divers was developed out of a passion for diving. This company is based on one simple rule: Safety and fun, over profits. Whether it is fresh water or salt water, we can find something worth exploring in either environment and share that with our students.
10-35 Divers was founded by Mathieu Burden who has been enamored with ocean and SCUBA diving since he can remember. As a child, he wan
ted to dive, but did not have the opportunity until he was in the United States Army. Stationed at Fort Carson Colorado, Mathieu happened into a local dive shop in Colorado Springs. A native Californian, Mathieu took his first dip below the surface in fresh water. It was everything he thought it would be and more. After his time in the Army was up, Mathieu went back to California and started diving there. After a while, he became a Public Safety Diver for a major metropolitan sheriff's department. As a requirement to be supervisor on his department's dive team, Mathieu was required to be certified as a Divemaster. Never really wanting to be a professional diver, he soon discovered he loved working with students and quickly became an instructor. Along the way, Mathieu became certified in many different areas of diving and passed along that experience to his students. It is important for us to keep classes small and have as many assistants as possible. For us, it is about the overall experience and to create new dive partners for us. We feel by making our students as comfortable from their initial journey into diving, we create lifelong divers and achieve this goal. We encourage questions and have develop this page to pass along important safety information to our fellow divers, as well as continuing education diving opportunities.