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Largest Dive Organisation in Singapore Joins SSI
After a long relationship with PADI, Asia Dive Academy (ADA) announced that they will become the SSI Service Centre for Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. Asia Dive Academy currently owns five dive centres, a liveaboard, a dive travel company, an equipment distribution company among other operations in Singapore. They have also recently expanded regionally with a dive centre in Phuket and Kuala Lumpur as well as two dive centres in Indonesia. This change took effect on the 5th of September 2016.
This move comes with the intention to “drastically improve dive training standards and the industry” as well as to make scuba diving more accessible to everyone. ADA has a vision to make “every Singaporean a diver” with the long term goal of conservation. They aim to protect and preserve the region’s coastal areas by creating opportunities through diving. And according to founder and CEO Jacki Ng, this move brings them closer to achieving that goal.
The dive industry in Singapore is faced with many inherent challenges. The absence of a natural reef with spectacular dive conditions for instance, makes carving a career in this niche industry a daunting task.
ADA aspires to revolutionise this by widening the educational and career opportunities for vocational work. Youths will be able to acquire the skills and expertise they need to be successful in the dive industry while having the chance to start their own dive operations.
ADA certifies close to 3,000 divers every year and this move transforms the Singapore dive industry by making SSI the dominant training agency in the country.
About Asia Dive Academy
Asia Dive Academy is the premier education and training centre for professional and recreational diving. Since it was founded in 1996, it has served over 42,000 divers. ADA holds the instructor exam five times a year, and trains the largest number of dive professionals in Singapore annually.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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