Dr. José Jones began his diving career while serving in the military. After a tour of combat duty, he joined the Atlantic Skin Diving Council (ASDC) where he served as vice president, training officer, spearfishing chairman, and scuba rodeo director. While a senior in college, he founded Underwater Adventure Seekers (UAS) of Washington, DC, which predates most national certifying organizations. Dr. Jones has made over 6,000 dives including research,

scientific, training, exploratory, and competitive dives of all types. Dr. Jones received the Scuba Schools International (SSI) Platinum 5000 Award for logging over 5,000 dives and contributing to the development of recreational scuba diving in America. 

For more than thirty years, Dr. Jones has taken thousands of divers on annual trips all over the globe to enjoy the underwater world.

During the heydays of scuba rodeos, Dr. Jones led his club, UAS, to ten straight wins in the Mid-Atlantic Scuba Rodeo. He has personally won both the Mid-Atlantic Scuba Diving Championship and the Mid-Atlantic Spearfishing Championship twice each.

Dr. Jones is co-founder, mentor, past president, and current vice president of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABS), which he helped organize in 1991. Under his leadership, the Association helped form over fifty clubs in the United States and around the world. 

Dr. Jones introduced scuba diving into the secondary schools of Washington over 25 years ago. He has taught scuba diving courses at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) as a part of the Marine Science discipline for more than 20 years. A professor of Marine Science and the Chairman of the Environmental Science Department at UDC, Dr. Jones has certified hundreds of students as divers and research divers and has taken them all over the world to study and dive.

Dr. Jones has been a diving instructor for over forty years and he has taught over 2,000 individuals from Australia to Africa to dive. He has never charged anyone to learn to dive. He has also taught hundreds of individuals to swim so that they could dive. 

In 1993, Dr. Jones led an expedition of NABS divers to New Ground Reef off of the coast of Key West, FL to place a 2,700-pound memorial plaque on the site of the Henrietta Marie slave ship. Dr. Jones and NABS have been recognized in over forty publications including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and National Geographic, by CBS, BET, CNN, and many local television stations.

Dr. Jones received his doctorate degree in marine biology from Georgetown University and he was also a Fulbright Scholar in marine science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Jones has been elected to Outstanding Educators of America, Who's Who in Martial Arts, the Purple Heart Veterans Association, and the Fulbright Scholars Association.