User:GrahamWallington

Graham Wallington was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on the 23rd of January 1971 to Arthur John Barry Wallington and Shirley Louise Wallington. He has one sibling, a brother, Keith Wallington who was born on the 5th October 1973.

He attended St John's College in Johannesburg from 1976 to 1988 when he matriculated.

Scuba Diving Career
Graham had been Scuba diving since the age of 13 and shortly after leaving school completed his NAUI instructor course with NAUI College, under the course direction of Jim Hicks, in Durban, South Africa in early 1989. He began his first job on the Indian Ocean island of Grande Comore for Island Ventures at the Le Galawa hotel in 1989. After living and working on Grande Comore for some 9 months he travelled to Los Angeles, USA in early 1990 and began working as an instructor trainer for Jim Hicks at NAUI college in Orange County. While attending the DEMA show at Las Vegas in 1990 he was offered a job at Don Fosters Dive in Grand Cayman. He travelled to Grand Cayman in late 1990 and worked for Don Fosters Dive as a SCUBA instructor, boat captain and dive master for a year. He also completed a cross-over course to PADI meaning that Graham was now a PADI and NAUI instructor. After leaving Grand Cayman in late 1991 he travelled from Brisbane to Cairns in Australia and then applied for a job as a SCUBA instructor/divemaster on the Solomon Islands. Graham worked for Honiara based Dive Solomons and Bilikiki Cruises before deciding to return to South Africa and change career.