User:Pbsouthwood
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Peter Southwood
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[edit] Shortcuts
Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay, List of Dive sites of CP&FB, Diving in South Africa, Scuba diving
Diving in Hermanus, Diving in Port Elizabeth, Diving Aliwal Shoal, Diving Sodwana Bay, Diving inland in South Africa
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[edit] Location
- Now: Somerset West
Resident of Somerset West, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
[edit] Roles
My home turf is the Cape Peninsula and False Bay, in which region I have logged over 1000 dives at a large range of sites, some of which I have mapped. I am not currently affiliated to any recreational diving certification agency, nor employed by a dive shop or dive charter business.
- Please feel free to ask me any questions about these topics and I will try to provide a useful answer.
[edit] Projects
[edit] Current projects
- The first and main project: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay, but I would like to extend the range of dive sites to other parts of the country, preferably with collaboration from divers who live in the areas. List of Dive sites in the project
- Getting Scuba diving up to star standard.
- Diving in South Africa is intended as an article between Scuba diving and local diving guides for South Africa.
- Assisting with Diving in Hermanus, Diving the Tsitsikamma, Diving Sodwana Bay, Diving Aliwal Shoal and other regional guides
- Developing and standardising structure for continental, national and local level diving guide articles. Producing templates where they may be useful. Editing diving guide articles to get them to fit the current structure, and hopefully not offending too many past contributors to these articles.
- Providing help articles on how to create and edit dive guide articles.
- Keeping an eye on any developments in SNUBA, Snorkeling and Free diving
[edit] More or less finished projects
- Wikitravelising Diving in Thailand
- Merging Scuba diving in Asia into Scuba diving and Asian national dive guide articles.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Planned projects
- Developing Dive Guides for the whole of South Africa with the collaboration of divers in other parts of the country.
[edit] Dream projects
- Eventually extending this system of Dive Guides and Dive Site descriptions to other parts of the world. This will have to be done as a major collaborative project and will necessarily involve input from hundreds of divers. Today, Cape Town, Tomorrow, ze Vorld! Ahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!.... Should keep me busy indefinitely.
[edit] Other interests include
- SURG [1](Southern Underwater Research Group) co-founder.
- Engineering, particularly underwater and low-cost solutions
- Underwater science, particularly marine invertebrates of my home waters.
- Underwater diving, Scuba and Surface supplied, scientific and recreational/technical, since 1983.
- Mapping dive sites
- Recording biodiversity of the local temperate reefs. FIN and Reef Atlas Project.
- Reef classification.
- Design and development of special purpose equipment for diving and underwater projects (Modular Diving Systems by Southwood Marine, and SURGware)
- Voluntary and contract work on scientific and commercial diving projects as diver and diving supervisor.
- Education, particularly relating to scientific, commercial and recreational diving. (Commercial diving instructor, ex lecturer at University of Stellenbosch, retired recreational diving instructor)
- Writing training material for commercial and recreational diver training.
- Providing comments and advice on scientific and commercial diving legislation, codes of practice, operating procedures and training policy in South Africa.
