Wednesday 22 December 2010
PADI Recognition for December 2010
Below are the IRRA winners for December:
The winner is Rainbow Reef Dive Center s15179
The honorable mentioned were;
ABC Dive Ltd s32334 – PADI International Ltd.
Ocean Pro Meeru s798161 – PADI Europe
Thresher Shark Divers s36055 –PADI Asia Pacific
Havsport Trondheim A/S s5238 – PADI Nordic
Below is the winner for Member Recognition for December and the honorable mentioned.
Winner:
Ute Frelec #91302 –PADI Europe
Honorable Mentioned:
Christopher Pace #92560 -PADI Asia Pacific
Bruce Coles #624100 – PADI PIL
Jonas Westerberg #86804 – PADI Nordic
Peter Mikhail #210071 –PADI Americas
A very good job done to the DC and Instructors listed.
Monday 13 December 2010
Underwater Yahtzee
The thought of playing Yahtzee for 8 hours may seem like a tall order for some, but couple this with an underwater environment and you have yourself a World Record attempt. A group of divers from Sweden are taking Yahtzee to the depths of their Tropicarium on January 31st 2011!
They want to not only attempt a world record by playing as many games of Yahtzee underwater, estimated at around 8 hours, but they want to alert people of the Project AWARE Give Shark a Fighting Chance campaign. PADI Course Director, Mikaela Sjölin said, ‘We will continue until the air is empty’. The divers will have dual 18 L232 Bar Steel tanks and will play as many rounds of Yahtzee in the shark pool as they possible can in 8 hours!
A big thank you to Mikaela Sjölin, Annelie Lövgren, and Levente Toth, for organising this event. Best of luck to all the participants!
To find out how you too can help Give Sharks a Fighting Chance, go to Project AWARE blog.
They want to not only attempt a world record by playing as many games of Yahtzee underwater, estimated at around 8 hours, but they want to alert people of the Project AWARE Give Shark a Fighting Chance campaign. PADI Course Director, Mikaela Sjölin said, ‘We will continue until the air is empty’. The divers will have dual 18 L232 Bar Steel tanks and will play as many rounds of Yahtzee in the shark pool as they possible can in 8 hours!
A big thank you to Mikaela Sjölin, Annelie Lövgren, and Levente Toth, for organising this event. Best of luck to all the participants!
To find out how you too can help Give Sharks a Fighting Chance, go to Project AWARE blog.
Historical Meeting Results in Creation of Rebreather Association
PADI and the world’s major CCR manufacturers came together at the DEMA Show in Las Vegas, USA on 17th November to hear PADI’s vision of where rebreather technology may head in the future and to receive an outline of PADI’s new CCR programs due for release in 2011. The Meeting was chaired by Mark Caney - Vice President of Rebreather Technologies (PADI Technical Diving Division). PADI was also represented by other PADI Technical Diving Division Executives including; Terry Cummins (Director Market Development), Karl Shreeves (Director of Decompression Diving) and James Morgan (Director of Advanced Wreck Diving). Pascal Dietrich Technical Consultant at PADI Europe and Jeff Nadler of PADI Americas were also in attendance.
Over 30 executives representing the cream of the world’s CCR manufacturers were present, including AP Diving, Diverite, Dräger, Hollis/Oceanic, KISS, Innerspace Systems, Micropore Inc, Poseidon, Shearwater, Silent Diving, Titan, Revo and VR Technology.
One of the most exciting outcomes of the meeting was the decision by the manufacturers to form the Rebreather Education and Safety Association (RESA) to set a higher degree of cooperation amongst CCR manufacturers. It is intended that this group will also address manufacturing standards and some of the issues that will make their products more appealing to a greater audience.
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