Todd Ne '(Instructor team)' ( Instructors Team )

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• Instructor

  PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer - Scuba Diving since 1992

  • Full FaceMask Instructor

   

  Hi!  We are all teachers and students in life.  We cannot evolve without positive interaction with others.  As I grew up, I admired my family very much including my aunts and uncles for various things they did.  I had 10 uncles and 8 aunts in my ancestral dairy farm family from Minnesota.  Yes, very large and lots of motorcycles and boats.  My parents moved us away from Minnesota when I was young however, we visited there what seemed like excessively often as a child.   

  I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago on the chain of lakes which is part of the great lakes water basin.  My family always had a boat.  According to the lore of my family, I could swim before I could walk before we moved from Minnesota.  In the winters we went skiing.   Two of my moms brothers loved SCUBA however, the only memories of those experiences in my parents minds were scary.  They would not allow me to SCUBA, which knowing me and my history in the water, I absolutely had to dive!  In 1992, I changed that decision and have been diving ever since.  At the time, it was my plan to become an instructor but decided to go back to attend university instead.   

  I achieved my honors degree from Northern Illinois University in two disciplines, marine biochemistry of cell senescence in colonial hydra and pathogenic microbiology.  During my time at NIU, I also volunteered at the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago for three years doing coral explant cloning of hard corals and propagation  for the Philippines Coral Reef Exhibit as well as snail propagation of endangered snail species.  Upon graduation, I embarked on a career in medical diagnostic equipment sales to integrated delivery networks(long story) .   In 2015, I decided to go back and get my Rescue Diver here at RRDC which led me to commit to obtaining my PADI Open Water Instructor certification here in 2017.  I knew then that one day I wanted to work here to challenge myself to learn more about SCUBA via instructing.  Who knows what's next!    

  • Favorite Dive Site:

    Pickles Ball #2

  • Favorite Fish:

    Juvenile trunkfish

  • Favorite Restaurant:

    Conch House

  • Favorite Movie:

    Cloud Atlas

  PADI Specialty Instructor Certifications:

  • Wreck Diver

  • Enriched Air/Nitrox Diver

  • Boat Diver

  • Peak Performance Buoyancy Diver

  • Night Diver

  • PADI Emergency 02 Provider

  • DAN Emergency 02 Provider

  • EFR Primary/Secondary Care

  • EFR Care for Children

  • Ocean Reef Full FaceMask (IDM)

  • Ocean Reef FFM w/Coms