Instructor Development Course in Malapascua, Philippines

PADI Public Safey Diver Instructor Courses Available Next Year.

PADI and Underwater Crimininal Investigators are pleased to announce the offering of PSD Instructor Training at workshops through out the USA next year. Mike Berry author of the New PSD Text and support materials will be conducting the courses and also offering advanced training to include vehicle recovery, body recovery and advanced search techniques though his training...

Manatee and Cavern Trips Help Create Winter Season

Southeastern retailers have long counted on manatee trips and/or cavern diving training to provide much needed dive activity during winter months. Manatee trips can be some of the easiest dive travel a store can run because tanks are optional. Snorkeling is the prefered way to interact with manatee and that opens to doors to all...

Stronger Shark Finning Ban Endorsed by European Parliament

Strasbourg, France. November 22, 2012. Conservation groups are celebrating today’s European Parliament vote to close loopholes in the European Union ban on shark finning (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea), the culmination of six years of campaigning and debate. Members of the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the...

Project AWARE: Stronger Shark Finning Ban Endorsed by European Parliament

This article is courtesy of the Project AWARE Foundation. You can also see the full article here. Conservation groups are celebrating last week's European Parliament vote to close loopholes in the European Union ban on shark finning (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea), the culmination of six years of campaigning and debate....

PADI Business Academy follow up 2013

Earlier this year PADI members in Thailand attended the PADI Business Academy which was held in Bangkok. East and West coast members came together for the first time, sharing new and old business ideas, and of course making new friends. On 16.11.2012 Tim Hunt and Tony Andrews conducted a PADI Business Academy follow up to...

EFR® Materials Update

The full range of the bright and shiny newly revised EFR materials are now available in Asia Pacific! All products have been updated to reflect the latest changes resulting from the 2010 ILCOR Guidelines and include new techniques for helping your participants learn the current emergency protocols. Revised Primary Care and Secondary Care course Instructor and...

Project AWARE: Celebrate Australia’s New Marine Reserves

This article is courtesy of the Project AWARE Foundation. You can also see the full article here. Time to celebrate! On the 16th of November 2012 in Australia, the largest network of marine parks in the world was officially declared and is now legally in place. Over the last few years your submissions made the...