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Lindsay Williams
Managing Director
Lindsay has been involved in the sport of skydiving for over 30 years, gaining experience in all elements of the skydive operation. Lindsay is a qualified skydive tandem master, CSO (Chief Safety Officer), packing technician and qualified pilot. These days Lindsay spends his days providing leadership for the company and can generally be found behind a keyboard in the office.
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Keith Gallaher
Operations Manager - Rotorua
Keith has made over 8,000 skydives and has been skydiving since 1989. He has also been CEO and Safety Director of the New Zealand Parachute Industry Association since 1998.
Keith oversees all elements of the skydive operation at the NZONE Rotorua Dropzone.
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Lizzy Evans
Skydive Drop Zone Manager - Queenstown
Lizzy manages the day to day operations of all ground crew at the skydive drop zone in Queenstown, ensuring we continue to provide the very best in customer service and product delivery.
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Derek Melnick
Business Development Manager
Derek heads up the Sales function for NZONE both Nationally and Internationally taking the wonderful experience of Tandem Skydive through our diverse distribution channel to the far reaches of the globe. Derek also looks after NZONE’s extensive Sponsorship & PR Programme.
Derek has a personal affinity to being in the air and has undertaken a few Solo Skydives himself in a previous life and recreationally flies a paraglider from the local mountains in the Southern Alps when he is not working.
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Sarah Christie
Sales - Rotorua
Sarah has been involved in the adventure tourism industry for over 10 years. Local to Rotorua, Sarah has also worked around the world including, Canada and Japan. Sarah’s primary focus is on growing NZONE Rotorua through involvement in promotional and sales activities, plus assisting in frontline customer service on site at the skydive drop zone.
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Sasa Jojic
Tandem Operations Manager - Queenstown
Sasa has made over 20,000 skydives and is a double Yugoslavian champion with a record five years on his home country's skydiving team. Sasa looks after daily skydive operations and has been with NZONE since 1998. Sasa is both a Tandem Instructor and XLR8 (AFF) Skydive Training Instructor.
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Kras Bankov
Skydive Instructor & Equipment Manager - Queenstown
International representative skydivers with a military and police background and a ready smile are something of a rarity. Former Bulgarian champion Kras is also one of the South Island’s only qualified emergency reserve packers, and that’s when he gets highly finicky. And everybody’s grateful for that.
Otherwise he’s happy to let his 14,500 skydives do the talking, as well as being a highly proficient Tandem Instructor Kras is also a senior XLR8 (AFF) Training Instructor.
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Scott Wingate
Queenstown - Tandem Master
Scott has made over 8,000 skydives since commencing his career in skydiving in 2002. Having completed an NZQA Diploma in skydiving, Scott joined NZONE as a student skydiver in 2001.
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Ralph Loggenberg
Queenstown - Tandem Master
Skydiving experience
Ralph started by completing a Static Line Course in 2002. Before leaving South Africa he obtained a Display Rating along with his Jump Masters and Tandem Masters.
How many jumps
3500
Where are you from
South Africa
Favourite saying
Just do it!
Best experience
Kayak fishing on the Coast of Mozambique.
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Nick Dowling
Queenstown - Tandem Master
Skydiving experience
Nick has been jumping since April 2004. Through skydiving he has been lucky enough to be part of the children's cancer charity event called Jumpstart as well as opportunities to skydive overseas.
How many jumps
5500
Where are you from
Beautiful Invercargill, NZ
Favourite food
Whitebait Crispies and Margarita Pizza.
Best experience
Travelling to East Africa and living in the small town of Moshi.
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Greg Simpson
Queenstown - Tandem Master
Skydiving experience
First skydived in 1992 and has completed 13 Helicopter jumps. Greg has been jumping with Nzone for 5 and a half years and spent 6 months with NZ Skydiving School.
How many jumps
5500
Where are you from
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK
Favourite saying
iiiiittss tiiiiime, who is the idiot?
Best experience
Scoring first Cricket century,
Reaching 95kg for the first time.
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Ricky Good
Queenstown - Tandem Master
Skydiving experience
5 years jumping and a member of the NZ canopy piloting team.
How many jumps
6000
Where are you from
Christchurch, NZ
Favourite saying
Respect my authority
Best experience
www.gorilla-tv.com
Johnson McCrosty
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Marius van der Walt
Queenstown - Freefall Photographer
Skydiving experience
The tip of the iceberg.
How many jumps
5000
Where are you from
South Africa
Favourite food
Katje Drop (Dutch Licorice)
Best experience
Life
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Stuart Rogers
Queenstown - Freefall Photographer
Skydiving experience
6 years, first jump on April Fools Day 2003.
How many jumps
6500
Where are you from
West Auckland
Favourite saying
You only live once.
Best experience
Playing with tigers in Thailand.
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Colin Aitchison
Queenstown - Freefall Photographer
Skydiving experience
2 Years
How many jumps
335
Where are you from
Christchurch, NZ
Favourite food
Meat
Best experience
Racing a 200bhp super bike.
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