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IADP – A new voice for diving professionals worldwide
A new organisation has taken up the challenge of representing dive professionals worldwide and across all agencies. The International Association of Dive Professionals (IADP), founded by dynamic dive entrepreneur Henri Hemmerechts, is a non-profit organisation that represents the interests of all diving professionals, regardless of country or affiliation.
IADP will act as the united voice of all diving professionals, promoting the industry as a whole without fear or favour. It also intends to provide tangible benefits for members such as insurance, legal advice and business consulting. IADP plans to set up cross-agency quality standards for diving businesses, to create a long term ecologically-sustainable industry.
“I am delighted that IADP is finally taking shape,” says Henri Hemmerechts, who has spent several years developing the Association. “The diving industry is so diverse, with hundreds of different agencies – some of them very small – that often don’t speak to each other. Professionals need a cross-agency organisation to represent everyone in the industry, to share best practices and raise standards internationally – and to challenge bad businesses. IADP will provide that.”
IADP’s first initiative will be to send a survey to all those who have expressed an interest in the organisation – over 4,000 people so far – to take the pulse of the industry. Other surveys will follow in the coming months and years, so that IADP can keep abreast of changing circumstances and opinions within the industry. In order to achieve this and its other aims, IADP will be running a crowd-funding campaign during 2015.
IADP will be represented at DEMA by Paul Dollar, who can be contacted at paul@scubatribe.com or by phone on +1 707 495 2159.
For more information email press@dive-professionals.org.
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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