FEATURED DIVE OPERATOR OF THE WEEK : TONY LINDEQUE FROM LEARN TO DIVE TODAY
I'm Tony Lindeque, a PADI independent instructor operating in Cape Town. My company is called Learn to Dive Today (http://www.learntodivetoday.co.za) and we are DAN Business Members. Most of my diving is done in False Bay, with a bit of Atlantic in summer and dive trips to elsewhere in the country (such as Sodwana and Knysna) a couple of times a year. My favourite local diving spot is Long Beach in Simonstown, where I do most of my training dives. It's an under-appreciated and under-explored piece of ocean where I've seen everything from giant short tailed sting rays to devil rays, horsefish, raggy scorpion fish and (on two occasions) great white sharks.
I am a Master Scuba Diver Trainer, and can teach up to Divemaster. At any one time I have a number of courses on the go, including a couple of Divemaster candidates. I very much enjoy interacting with a lively group of divers who are current and former students and now also friends - either via my blog at http://learntodivetoday.wordpress.com, or on the weekly boat and shore dives that we arrange, to explore the many wrecks and photogenic reefs around the Cape Peninsula. |
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How did you get into diving? |
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I bought a dive course at the Pretoria show 1993 |
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Where was your 1st dive? |
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Sodwana bay |
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What's your deepest dive? |
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56m |
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Who'd play you in a movie and why? |
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Kevin Costner, waterworld, he had an awesome boat and got to see the inside of a basking shark |
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Sports car or 4x4? |
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4x4, Sports cars hold very little dive gear and get stuck on the beach. |
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Beer or wine? |
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Neither |
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Braai or sushi? |
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Braai, I am a diver, dont eat fish I take their pictures |
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Air or Nirtox? |
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Nitrox |
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Do you live to dive or dive to live or both? |
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Both, I dive for a living, its my favourite hobby and I live for it. |
