Lynette Dixon (Owner)
Lynette discovered the magic of Boracay in 2010 at the tail end of some social work at an orphanage in Tacloban City and quickly fell in love with the island and its people. Inspired to become more involved in the community, she bought New Wave Divers and is working on making it the best dive shop possible. She has refitted the shop with new equipment and upgraded vessels and is constantly pushing to further improve every customer's experience in and around the water. Lynette also continues to work with local orphanages. To learn more or to make a donation, visit: http://www.crosspointorphans.com/donate/
In terms of her life before and outside of New Wave: Lynette was born in Arkansas, USA, and raised a family there while working in the medical field. She has pursued modeling at various times in her life and was crowned Mrs. Akansas United States in 1999. She now works as a consultant in the medical field in California and is pursuing her doctorate in Psychology. She recently co-produced a horror film, Germ, which just obtained US and international distribution and which is expected to be available globally in 2013. (Check out the trailers at www.germthemovie.com and http://tomcatfilmsllc.com/germ.) Lynette makes regular trips to Boracay to recharge her batteries and continue the mission of New Wave Divers: to be the best!
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Guanyi Chen PADI Dive Master
After hearing Guany’s story I was so impressed with how hard she has worked to achieve thus far only her Dive Master !! With her passion she can only be a success in diving. “The thing that I love most about diving is experiencing a completely different and exciting world underwater. I'd never experienced anything quite like it before. That’s the reason why I took my Dive Master course only 4 months after my Open Water course and now plan to make a career in the diving industry” (Guany) Guany’s personal experience of fearing water and being a non swimmer for most of her life makes it so easy to empathize with beginner divers - who may be nervous. She only learned to swim recently and It took a lot of time and practice for her to accomplish the 400 meters swimming test on her Dive Master course. Now she is no longer scared of the water! Her story is a testament of how magic and attractive diving is and how it can even change someone's life
An important aspect Guany believes in, is having the ability to build a firm friendship with each client, hopefully leading to them doing more diving! She also very much enjoys spending time with and communicating with people from different cultures.
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TONY FARMER PADI Instructor/Dive Master with 8 PADI Excellence Awards
Tony is 36 and from England. He can teach courses in English and Mandarin Chinese. He left the UK office world as a Financial Adviser after 10 years. His focus was to become a Freelance writer - mostly writing articles for Finance and Travel websites. Tony’s biggest passion is travelling. He has a burning need to see as much of the world as he can and experience as many different cultures as possible. In 2008 he rode the train all the way from London to Hong Kong - a journey which took him about 3 months. He ended up in Southeast Asia and ultimately Thailand, where he tried Scuba diving, fell in love with it and went all the way to PADI Instructor - qualifying in 2009! Amazing right?
Tony is a keen Technical Diver - qualified to make staged decompression dives down to 55 metres. He also loves wreck diving, enjoying the thrill of penetrating wrecks. The history of the different wrecks, why they are there is something he finds interesting as well when he is diving in or around them- or plan to dive on in the future. Tony is also heavily involved in Project Aware. He has organized beach clean-ups and led a lot of clean-up dives. He has also led Crown of Thorns clean-ups. And he once helped save an injured Green Turtle, which had been hit by a boat propeller.
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Yannick Weber PADI Instructor/Dive Master
Bio coming
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Jane Zapico (Secretary)
Jane has been with New Wave Divers as THE secretary since 2010. She has been in accounting since 2005 and is usually final person you will see at New Wave since she is the one that runs the CC machine :). She is proficient, timely and joyful to be around. Ms. Jane is responsive and will assist customers to make their experience a happy one. She is also a wonderful asset to the New Wave family!
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Arron Lever - IDC /DiveMaster
Arron comes to New Wave via upstate New York USA. He is a retired officer of the United States Coast Guard. Arron was born in a small village just outside of Coran Philippines. Being Filipino/American his family moved shortly after to the US where his parents raised his siblings and himself. Cooming back to the Philipines now with his daughter to see his mothers side and heritage of the Philippines has been a huge positive in their lives. After retiring from the US Coast Guard and while visiting his parents, who now live in the Philippines, Arron went to Malapascua Island for his PADI open water in April 2012. Having achieved his NAUI open water with the coast guard in 1989, Arron knew he loved the underwater world. Moving forward with PADI training just made sense for him.
Having Arron join us at New Wave Divers is exciting! Welcome to the family Arron !!
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Bong -boat captain
Bio to follow
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Glennie (Receptionist)
New to the shop in Novemebr. Glennie joins the New Wave Team as our new Scheduling/reservations manger. WIth a smile she will gladly assist our guest with scheduling, pickups, and hotels. Her friendly and helpful nature is a great assest for us at New Wave. Welcome Glennie!!
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Raine (Boat guard and equiptment specialist)
Raine came to New wave in August. He is the 1st mate on the outrigger with Captain Jhonas. He is a great worker and just a happy pleasure to be around. He takes his position seriously and everyone's safety on the boat it very important to him. He is a good helper in the kitchen as well. He is learning to dive and loves it so far, he just can't stop smiling! Welcome to the New Wave family Raine.
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