New Tech Rec Instructor products

Due to the changes in the Tec Rec programme the instructor-level products have been revised.Any student-level materials you may have on-hand are still current.

NEW ITEMS
Tec Diver Course Instructor Guide
(includes newly-revised instructor guide and instructor appendix CD-ROM)
- replaces Tec Deep Inst.

Guide Tec 40-45-50 Instructor Slates Set
Newly-revised 19 slate set, coil-bound and printed on "wet notes."
- replaces Tec Deep Inst.

Cue Cards Tec Diver Course Lesson Guides CD-ROM

- replaces Tec Deep Lesson Guides

Tec Trimix Instructor Guide
(includes instructor guide and tec trimix 65 addendum)
If you already own the Tec Trimix Instructor Guide, please contact PADI Training regarding the revisions:
EXAMS
Tec 40 student exam
Tec 45 student exam
Tec 50 student exam
Blank answer sheets and answer keys are in the Tec Diver Instructor Guide and will be available soon on the PADI Pros site.
Instructor-level exams have changed. If you are a TecRec Instructor Trainer (course director) please call PADI training for details.

UN-CHANGED ITEMS
None of the student materials have changed for any of the courses. In other words, whatever student materials you have in stock are current.
No changes to the Equipment Set-Up DVD.
Gas Blender
None of the Gas Blender materials have changed. We put the instructor guide in a new binder so it would match the other guides, but that's it.
Tec Trimix
There have been a few changes to the Tec Trimix instructor guide. Please contact PADI Training for details.
Students use the Tec Trimix student exam for "Tec 65."
Instructors continue to use the same Trimix Lesson Guides.
Watch this space and other PADI communications for avalability dates for these products.

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Effective use of your students PADI wall certificates

Some useful suggestions from Peter Driessel, PADI Regional Manager, Africa & Middle East .

Many successful PADI dive centres hold a certification evening on their premises or in a local restaurant where they award their new divers with a PADI certificate of the various courses they have completed.

We know that this has always been positive as students from various courses get to mingle and promote the course that they have just completed to other attendees; we also know that invited non diving family members and friends are often turned onto the idea of scuba diving.

With all this said, have you ever given any consideration to the certificate presentation?During many of these evenings that I have attended I've seen dive centres give out both framed and non framed certificates. This got me thinking, how you can build a framed certificate that a diver would be proud to hang on the wall of their office or within their home.

My solution was to include the certificate, course title, for example, Open Water Class of 2009 and a photograph with all the names of the recently qualified divers.

Having a certificate like this will immediately add the professionalism to your course that our products and materials already portray.

Recently during the Dive Show in Johannesburg I hung several of these certificates on the Kewe Sales/PADI stand and was amazed at how many non divers said that they wanted to do the course with us as we looked so professional with our certificates!

In my opinion the most important factor in the presentation is that, you can be sure that the receiving diver will hang their certificate thereby creating interest for all that look at it.

Do you want new divers?

Read here to see how close your intro dive is to an ISO approved programme and find out how to become a leader in your market Follow these simplified DSD guidelines and reap the rewards Missing a trick? Do you have enough Open Water Divers?

Our most successful centres at diver acquisition are those that have a proactive Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) programme, targeted at securing entry level divers.

Thought it was too difficult to run the operation and market the centre at the same time?

Time to give it a go!Discover Scuba Diving made easy DSD’s can be conducted in a Pool, Confined Open Water and Open Water.

The aim is to give the participant an experience they will not forget and hopefully encourage them to complete a PADI entry level course.

Review the DSD Instructor Guide in the PADI Instructor Manual for further detailed information if required.DSD in a pool or confined open water.

Are you a Divemaster holding the DSD Leader rating, an Assistant Instructor or above?

If so, you can do this.

DSD participants complete and sign the PADI Discover Scuba Diving Brochure
Have participants complete and sign the Discover Scuba Diving Knowledge and Safety Review.
Conduct briefing
Help new divers put on and adjust their scuba equipment.
Skill performance requirements are conducted in shallow water before moving to water too deep in which to stand.

You may not engage in any other activities, such as taking photographs or video, while supervising participants
Demonstrate and have students master Inflation and deflation of a BCD at the surface
Directly supervise new divers as they breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water. When comfortable, take them on tours in deeper water as appropriate.

Debrief divers
Promote your PADI Scuba Diver, PADI Open Water Diver Programme or Scuba Connect Programme
Register your DSD participants online In a nutshell! – Conduct a PADI DSD any time a customer wants to experience diving in a pool or confined body of water.

The only required inwater skill relates to BCD use on the surface. There is no maximum or minimum time requirement; this is left to you.

After the poolsession it is important you ask the participant about continuing to the OWD course imediatly:

Have OWD Crew packs available, "start to day".

Have a schedule about the next course start.

PADI eLearning could work for many students, make sure you have the link on your web page.

Help your participants to sign on to the OWD Course, make it easy and fun!

A DSD experience is the most successful programme to generate new customers, especially if the centres are using freshly certified divers to share their experience at the end of the DSD. It’s within PADI standards to have a PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water Diver helping with the logistics of organizing equipment and other materials used in the programme, motivation and registration at the end of the DSD experience. (They can’t supervise, be used as a certified assistant or in any way conduct the experience or any of its elements.)

The registration ratio is very often close to 80% if the emphasis is well positioned (end of the programme).
A closer analysis of German Dive Centres in 2006 has confirmed that the DSD is crucial for the good health of a business.

Centres who conducted the DSD experience and actively promoted the Open Water Diver course during the experience found a significant uplift in their business.

ARE YOU GETTING YOUR SHARE?

PADI has paid more than $1.6 million to dive centers and resorts for their share of eLearning fees and by the end of the year, we anticipate that reaching more than $2 million.

By placing a PADI eLearning banner on your dive centres website you are taking the first step to insure you join other successful PADI members who are sharing the rewards attributed to embracing the PADI eLearning programmes.

The eLearning banners are available for download from the eLearning Toolbox in the PADI Pros Area, “IRRA Members” section; they are listed under the “Tools” heading by following the “Adding PADI eLearning Links to your website” link.

Dive CentreMeeting, Denmark

Welcome to PADI Nordic business meeting for PADI Dive centres.
The purpose of the business meeting is to provide you as a PADI Dive centre with the latest information from the Nordic diving industry, exchange ideas with PADI Nordic and with colleagues, market trends and opportunities for the future.

For whom?

The meeting is primary for decision makers such as owners, managers or head Instructors at a Renewed PADI Dive centre. The amount of attendants is limited.

Where?

Denmark. October 24. Odense.Venue: First Hotel Grand, Jernbanegade 18. 5000 ODENSE.

How to register?

Send an e-mail to: mox.moberg@padi.seSeminar location, Dive centre name, PADI DC no, names of attendees.

What is included?

Seminars, morning coffee, lunch, afternoon coffee, soda water, fruit.If you would like to stay overnight, please arrange it on your own expense directly with the hotel.

Fee?

No. The Business meeting is a part of your Dive centre fee, no extra charge.If "no show" or late cancellation, within five working days before start, PADI Nordic will invoice the Dive center with SEK 500.- per person cancelled.

Agenda
09.00 – 09.30
Coffee, sign up.

How to survive in a Recession…..

PADI WW statistics, PADI Nordic stat and trends by country.

PADI Market survey high lights. Uppsala University: Students certified outside Nordic.
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch

Workshop on sales process: before, under, after OWD.

Presentation on results from workshop.

e-Learning: OWD, AOW, EANx

Coffee and cake

EVE, padi.com and blog.

PADI Nordic initiative for 2009-20010.New IRRA membership standardExternal and internal services and seminars.
Agreements for 2010.Summary of the day.
Meeting ends at 18.30

History and the future

... The 1959 discovery of Australopithecus boisei, by Mary Laekey in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, was a watershed in the history of paleoanthropology, injecting a new energy into the particular field of multidisciplinary research, and adding a highly significant 1.75 million-year-old link into what was a relatively sparse hominid lineage at the time.

... The introduction of PADI’s eLearning system was a watershed in the development of diving educational programmes, injecting a new energy into diver acquisition for the industry, and has injected a highly significant $1.75 million US Dollars directly into PADI Dive Centre and Resort operations world-wide in under 2 years since initial launch.

This has been achieved because the power of the PADI brand, and educational validity of PADI learning systems & materials, allows up-front charging for PADI eLearning programmes – putting immediate profit directly into PADI members’ businesses, capturing an unrivalled volume of new divers for the sport, and committing new PADI divers to the industry right from their first interaction with it.

It’s amazing... what PADI can do for your business

European Shark Week 2009

European Shark Week, 10-18 October, is a unique opportunity for European Union citizens and shark advocates around the world to demonstrate their support for shark conservation and effect change.

This year, Project AWARE Foundation and Shark Alliance Partners are going back to governments for follow-up action under the EU Shark Plan, most importantly, improvements to the finning ban and quotas of zero for especially threatened shark species.


Why Sign Your Support?
Europe houses some of the world’s largest shark fishing fleets. Strong plans of action here effect global species conservation.

Sign the shark petition: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
Share this Page with your family and friends.
Download the paper version of the petition and collect signatures in your school, dive center, or place of work: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (link to PDFs)
Hold an event to help celebrate sharks. This could be a presentation, Kid’s activity such as an art contest, shark speciality course, or an information stand. Project AWARE looks forward to receiving your best stories and event photos.

You voice counts. The European Shark Week 2008 saw the collection of more than 100,000 signatures on a Shark Plan petition for EU Fisheries Ministers. The Ministers have since issued a strong response that highlights the plight of sharks and calls for prompt strengthening of the EU finning ban. Indeed, the Ministers’ words reflect the concerns of a growing number of EU citizens expressed through European Shark Week.


Predator turned prey - Turning the Tide for Sharks
Most European shark populations are declining from overfishing. One-third are threatened with extinction. The EU ban on “finning” – slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea – is among the world’s weakest.

Hope lies with the new Shark Plan, adopted by the European Commission thanks in large part to support from many of you. The Plan sets the stage for vast improvements in EU shark policies, including the finning ban. Its success depends on collaboration and action by EU Fisheries Ministers and the European Commission. These fishery managers need encouragement from the European public to follow through on the Plan’s initiatives and truly safeguard sharks.

Go to: Take Action during European Shark Week