Computer use on eLearning

Computer Diving added to Open Water Diver Course Online – Revised Quick Review

As of 7 June 2010, the PADI Open Water Diver Course Online also covers dive planning with a dive computer. Knowledge Reviews, Quizzes and the Final Exam have all been updated to include the dive computer planning questions and the eRecord now shows completion of the new Section 6.

When the eLearner comes to you to complete training, administer the revised Quick Review, which now has an additional seven questions (total 25) covering dive computer use. Students who have already registered for the course before 7 June 2010 will only have to complete questions 1-18, new students who register on or after 7 June 2010 will have to complete all 25 questions.

Download the revised Quick Review or you can find the form on padimembers.com under Toolbox - eLearning - Teach with PADI eLearning (Quick Reviews and more).

If you have any questions about how the new section functions or how to best implement PADI eLearning® to your course offerings, contact the Training Department at your PADI Office.

Member Recognition

We are happy to announce the winners for September. Congratulations will go to Tim Hunt and Motif Diving Center.
Both will be profiled on the PADI Pros site, along with the honorable mentioned listed below.

Individual Member – Tim Hunt 208434 / Asia Pacific office
IRRA Member – Motif Diving Center s16980 / PADI International Ltd.

Honorable mentioned: IRRA
Maximum Scuba s19282 / PADI Americas
Dive Rarotonga s5429 / PADI Asia Pacific
DC Mihuric PADI 5* IDC s9664/ PADI Europe
Sport & Dyk s31005 / PADI Nordic

Honorable mentioned: Individual Member
James Sommer #185020 / PADI Americas
Jorg Varnhold #957289 / PADI Europe
Olav Bro #503533 / PADI Nordic

A very good job done by Sport & Dyk, Sweden and Olav Bro as Individual Member, Denmark.

Regional Managers Meeting, Bristol, UK

Three happy PADI Divers together at the yearly RM meeting in Bristol.
A lot of productive discussions and exchange of ideas for the benefit of PADI Nordic Members was conducted during the meeting.

Left to right:
Brian Cronin, Mikael Mox Moberg, Drew Richardson.

The Go Pro Challenge 2009

For the second year PADI Nordic gives out the recognition for the Go Pro Challenge.
2009 Mattias Sellin at Highcoastdiving, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden recives his Diploma.

You could also take part in the Go Pro Challenge for 2010.
More info on:
www.padimembers.com

If you would know more about Mattias and Highcoastdiving, go to:
www.highcoastdiving.com

PADI and Rebreathers

Mark Caney, Director, Rebreather Technologies in PADI’s Technical Diving Division, today announced that PADI is planning to introduce its first rebreather courses to include closed circuit rebreathers next year. Caney said that PADI will produce a range of rebreather courses covering the needs of recreational and technical divers, and that the first courses will become available next year. They will be supported by

the usual high quality educational materials that PADI is well-known

Read more on:
http://tecrec.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/padi-rebreather-courses-confirmed/

AWARE

Dykkere hev et pengeskab op af Marielundssøen.



Tirsdag den 17. august afholdte OceanAdventures Dykkercenter i Kolding et Project AWARE oprydningsdyk i Marielundssøen.



Selvom dagen bød på godt dansk vejr, kunne alle fremmødte kun skrive under på at dagen havde været en yderst vellykket en af slagsen. Omkring 30 dykkere, og ligeså mange på kanten, trodsede vejret og stillede op til AWARE dagen i Kolding, klar til at finkæmme søen og give en hånd med.



Dagen gav rigtige mange gode gevinster. Nogle lidt mere spændende end andre. Ude af syne – ude af sind, men dog ikke helt, for da de frivillige dykkere gik i gang, blev der hevet mange ting op af søen. En af de lidt mere interessante ting som blev fundet i søen, var en gammel mælk og fløde flaske fra mælkemandens tid i slut 60’erne. Derudover blev der også fundet en computer, der ikke lignede at den skulle findes igen, da den var godt pakket ind. Men dagens helt store gevinst, der fik mange af tilskuerne til at spærrer øjnene op, var da dykkeren Kaper Meyer, hev et pengeskab op af søen. Det viste sig dog at pengeskabet var opbrudt og tømt for indholdet. Computeren og pengeskabet er efterfølgende blevet afhentet af Sydøstjyllands Politi til identificering og som mulig led i en efterforskning.



Vandet var dejligt varmt, men dykkerne kunne ikke se mere end en 20-30 cm for sig og 50cm på det bedste. Dog lykkes det dykkerne at føle sig frem i søen og finde en masse mærkelige ting og sager.



For arrangøren var dagen ikke kun en stor succes, men også ligeså meget en måde at give noget igen på. Det er helt utrolig, hvad folk smider i vandet. Tonsvis af affald ender i vandet hvert år. Det vil vi gerne være med til at sætte fokus på ved at få det ryddet op igen og undgå de skadevirkninger som affaldet har på plante og dyrelivet – og samtidig er det jo et fantastisk samlingspunkt for os alle, til at løfte i flok og få nogle anderledes dykkeroplevelser, fortæller Martin Pedersen fra OceanAdventures Dykkercenter og arrangør af oprydningen.



Afslutningsvis skal der lyde et stort tak fra arrangøren til alle fremmødte, både dykkere, overflademandskab og andre som bakkede op omkring AWARE dagen i Kolding.

PADI Rescue Diver Course on eLearning

The PADI Rescue Diver Course Online is now available and is another option your student divers can use to complete their knowledge development.

Similar to other PADI eLearning courses, divers must affiliate with a PADI Dive Centre or Resort during the registration process. Independent instructors may pre-purchase eLearning Gift Passes, which will automatically associate divers with their member number so they can also take advantage of online learning.
Student divers complete all their knowledge development online, including the five Knowledge Reviews and the PADI Rescue Diver exam.
Rescue Diver Online students divers must also complete a Quick Review in person when meeting with their instructor.
This is the same model as the PADI Open Water Diver Course Online and PADI Enriched Air Diver Course Online.
The Rescue Diver Online Quick Review and answer key is available for download at the PADI Pros’ Site.
Upon completion of the knowledge development, the PADI Rescue Diver student divers print out a Rescue Diver Course eLearning Record that they should bring to their first session with their PADI Instructor.
Other highlights of the program include:
• Integrated videos - no pop ups
• Videos included in quick quizzes for easy reference
• An introduction and five sections - including five knowledge reviews and a 50 question Rescue Diver Exam
• PADI eLearning Quick Review to be completed at the business once divers
complete the online portion of the course

While the PADI Rescue Diver Course Online must be completed within 12 months (the diver's access to the account will expire at that time), divers will have perpetual access to a PADI Rescue Diver Manual online after course completion.

More than 35,000 divers have already completed a PADI eLearning course.
Why not take advantage of this market by pre-purchasing PADI Rescue Diver Course Online Gift Passes to bundle with your Rescue Diver course?
For any questions about the PADI Rescue Diver Course Online, or to find out how you can implement the course into your training schedule, contact an Educational Consultant at your PADI Office.

Ny PADI Course Director

PADI Nordic and Denmark got a new PADI Course Director, Gitte Skytte.

Gratulations and a very good job done.

Dykkergitte ny PADI Course Director i Danmark.

Gitte Skytte fra Dykkergitte har fra udgangen af juli 2010
opnået den højeste titel inden for PADI. Se mere på hjemmesiden:
http://www.dykkergitte.dk/index.html

How to register your DSD

We have recently changed the way DSDs are registered online. When you log on to the PADI Pro Website and click on the DSD Registration option it will open the PIC Online window where you will need to click the blue hyperlink that says Proceed to Application.



This will bring you to the PIC Online Application page where you are now able to register your DSDs as well as your other student level certifications.



Providing you have the appropriate instructor rating, Discover Scuba Diving should be one of the options available to you in the Certification Level drop down menu. Please be advised that you will not be charged any PIC Online credits for submitting DSDs via the new PIC Online site.



The DSD registration service is still being offered free of charge, however please be aware that a PIC Online credit will be charged for any other certification levels that you process via PIC Online (like Open Water, EFR, Rescue, etc.)

Register your AWARE Projects and events.

Why Register Your Environmental Activities with Project AWARE?

First we would like to thank all PADI dive professionals for their commitment to protecting their local underwater environment, for raising environmental awareness among the diving community and for sharing the Project AWARE philosophy with their student divers.

Many of you are organising cleanup events and other AWARE environmental activities throughout the year, helping Project AWARE achieve its mission to protect and conserve fragile aquatic environments. However many of these great events are taking place throughout PADI Nordic service territory under the Project AWARE banner without being registered with the Project AWARE Foundation.

We would like to remind you that it is important that you take the time to register your events online at www.projectaware.org if you want them to be Project AWARE events.

Why register your environmental activities with Project AWARE?
If you don’t register online:
• We have no way to track your events and assist you with promotion and marketing tools
• We can’t assist you with recruiting volunteers
• We can’t acknowledge and recognise your environmental efforts
• We can’t use your data and event details to show how committed divers are

This is of particular importance for cleanup events. By registering your cleanups with Project AWARE:

• You can brand your cleanup as a Project AWARE event and use our logo and other branded materials
• You get access to a Cleanup Toolbox for Organisers with many tips and useful downloadable resources (e.g.: banners, t-shirt design, tabards, guide, reports, recognition certificates, translated materials, …., and much more)
• More importantly, you make your events count for marine conservation at a global scale by contributing to the annual cleanup report and marine debris index which help raise awareness of the issue of marine debris and how divers worldwide are taking action to address it.

Make your Events Count, Register Online
A link to AWARE is up in the right corner of the blog.

As a PADI Pro you also have access to the AWARE Toolbox where you can download many useful resources for free including the AWARE “Our World, Our Water” manual.

The Project AWARE Team looks forward to assisting you with all your environmental efforts where you are. Register Today!