About Our Founder, Lisa Malachowsky
Lisa (she/her) has more than 35 years of personal & professional experience in diving and motorcycling industries scuba .
Motorcycling
Lisa was 12 years old when her father taught her how to operate the clutch on a motorcycle. She’s been riding ever since! Having developed a passion for long-distance touring, she has ridden untold miles across many countries and continents and now owns a motorcycle touring company that also offers scuba trips.
Her career in the motorcycle industry includes positions at major dealerships managing finance, parts, and service departments, including serving as a general manager, and working for multiple parts and accessories companies.
Lisa is a long-standing member of the American Motorcyclist Association, the BMW Riders Association, Women of On Road (Can Am), and the Motor Maids. She has trained with the BMW Performance Center, with Jimmy Lewis in the US, with Total Control, and with Jo Rust in South Africa.
Her writings on motorcycling have appeared in American Motorcyclist, the magazine of the AMA; On the Level, the magazine of the BMW Riders Association; and BMW Owners News, the magazine of the BMW Motorcycle Owners Association. She is also a passionate photographer. She is also a motorcycle accident scene management lead instructor.
Scuba Diving
Lisa learned to dive in 1986 and became a PADI assistant scuba instructor in 1994. She has worked as a professional divemaster and has logged well over a thousand non-training dives in world-class locations such as Indonesia, Fiji, the Philippines, Turks and Caicos Islands, Mexico, and many other places.
She worked with a scuba shop in the San Francisco Bay Area and assisted in many PADI Open Water classes and local charter trips. Lisa has logged over 500 drysuit dives in the waters of Monterey Bay. The Monterey Breakwater, although seen as a training site, is one of Lisa’s favorite shore dives, where she claims to see something new on every dive.
She has always considered herself an unsung pioneer of early Indonesian diving. Lisa has been diving there since 1997. In those days, most diving was “exploratory.” She even did a liveaboard there with Mike Severns, a professional photographer and author, in which they charted some dive sites that we hope to revisit often.