“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.”
We know one of the most important things about your trip is the people you meet. At Pisces Diving we don't just want to take you on from A to B during a dive. We want to get to know you and give you an amazing experience!
Come and join our awesome team for diving and hang out with us after your dives!
Meet our family
​Louis Olivier
Owner, Skipper, Dive Master
Louis Olivier – Owner, Skipper, Dive Master.
Louis qualified as an Open Water diver in 1991 and started Pisces Diving shortly after in 1994.His passion is his work and his work is his pleasure and is the driving force behind his incredible Pisces Team.He loves diving and always finds something unique and special to share with fellow divers.“The ocean has given me the biggest gift ever, a daughter who shares my passion and the opportunity to share my love and passion for the ocean and my work with her”.His best day ever was his daughters first dive.
Favourite Ocean Creature: Great White Shark, Glaucus atlanticus and the Hypocampus Nalu
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Naide figueira henriques
Front of House / Office Manager & Beach Control
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Naide moved from a remote, arid and beautiful Namaqualand to the opposite: the stunning and amazing Sodwana Bay! A 5 year temporary plan eventually progressed to a permanent home base!!
Hospitality is what Naide, eats, breathes and sleeps and has been an integral part of her life from an impressionable young age till present! Her love for all animals has been extended and included the love for all oceanic creatures and what the mesmerizing ocean presents with regards to its topography and diversity of fish species.
She shares her unlimited passion for the ocean with all our clients and encouraging the adventurous exploration of what the ocean provides!
Currently she is a novice diver with unquestionable, determination and aspiration to enhance aiming to consistently improving her current knowledge and skills!! Her deep rooted passion and believe is to conserve our extraordinary marine protected area which we need to all realise is all of ours responsibility to conserve without limitations!!
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Favourite Ocean Creature: All Shark species and the magnificent Whales!!
chris bedingfield
Freelance Instructor, Dive Master
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Chris grew up on a farm in Empangeni and the sea has always been his backyard. Although he always loved the ocean his true passion for it really began when he came down for an internship with pisces in April 2019 and found a family of like minded people to teach and share their passion with him. Now the only thing that rivals his joy in the water is his dislike of cold water! He can often be found on the beach wondering if he can put another layer on if the water isn't above 25°C.
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Favourite Ocean Creature: The Seamoth
Paul Prinsloo
Instructor, Dive Master
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Paul was born and raised in a small farming town called Amersfoort (Mpumalanga). He arrived in Sodwana for a holiday in December 2015. However, he fell in love so after his holiday he returned straight away! In January 2016 he went back already and has been in Sodwana Bay since. When he first arrived he had never been on the ocean, but it didn't take him long to go all the way up to instructor. And not just that: Paul got the hang of tec-diving and so he continued his journey diving up to normoxic trimix.
Living close to the coast was always on Paul's bucket-list and Sodwana is Paul's absolute Happy Place!
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Nick de Beer
Freelance Dive Master
Born and raised in Durban (not to mention incredibly proud), Nick did his open water course when he was 12 years old- had revisited it in 2021 when he started his divemaster internship and found an incredible passion in it. The joy that diving and sighting all the intricacies of the ocean spark in him, is nothing short of extraordinary. The ocean and diving have breathed an insanely profound sense of life and purpose in him and he hopes to pursue a diving career so much further than his dive masters. His happiness and inspiration are radiant, especially when he comes up from dives beaming about that particular days spottings.
Favourite sea creature: Frog fish (and really anything from the angler fish family)
Ben Ndube
Ground Crew
Ben is a true born & bred Sodwanian. Ben went to school in the area and joined the Pisces Team in 1997 when he was 15! That's a long time, so most of our family members will know Ben very well and can't deny he is an incredibly helpful and happy guy!
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Favourite Ocean Creature: UmKhomo – Whale – Watching the Humpback Whales breaching.
Thabani Nxumalo
Ground Crew
Thabani joined the Pisces Family in 2008. When Thabani first started working with Pisces he was a rather quiet guy. That's hard to believe when you see him now! Thabani has spend a lot of time in the pool to learn how to swim. No one can take take the smile of his face now when he snorkels in the rockpools or out at sea!
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Favourite Ocean Creature: UmKhomo – Whale –
Watching the Humpback Whales breaching
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TAJANA
Instructor, Dive Master​
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Tajana joined Pisces in 2021, being completely new to diving- she completed her dive master internship and soon after discovered her fierce love for the ocean and all that it has to offer.
Tajana is beyond passionate about diving and all that comes with it, the community, shared experiences and encounters with marine life incomprehensibly big and small! She loves to learn from those who are willing to teach and it brings her immense joy to be able to extend all that's she's absorbed to who ever is keen to learn.
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Favorite ocean creature: Pygmy Seahorse, Macro littel beings....
LISA
Dive Master, Zoologist, Pisces Photographer / Videographer
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Lisa, born and raised in Johannesburg, first fell in love with Sodwana Bay during a visit in 2019. She completed her undergraduate degree in Zoology at the University of Pretoria in 2021.
After completing her Open Water certification with Pisces that same year, she decided to specialize in marine science for her postgraduate studies, focusing on nudibranchs. Lisa conducted all her research dives with Pisces and published her findings in the Journal of Diversity and Distribution. She also worked on coral conservation in the Maldives but returned to Sodwana due to her deep love for the reefs and the town. Having completed her Divemaster certification with Pisces, Lisa is thrilled to be part of the Pisces family.
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Favorite ocean creature: Nudibranchs
Anna Biesheuvel
Freelance Instructor, Dive Master
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Anna is the permanent tourist within Pisces. Born and bred in Holland, raised as an absolute water baby with any water sport you can think of. After too many years of studying she left Holland in 2015 to travel Asia and Africa for ‘a few months’. But then she came past Sodwana and here she still is, a few years later.. Anna has a huge passion for the ocean and diving, and still feels as excited as an open water student to go diving! Eager to learn about everything in the ocean there she’s very happy to be part of this beautiful Pisces family.
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Favourite Ocean Creature: The orca (although I’m still praying and hoping to bump into one)
