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New Guinness World Record for Longest Underwater Human Chain
On Saturday June 17th, 2017 the Guinness World Record for the Longest Underwater Human Chain was broken by organizer Pavan Arilton, Owner of Dixie Divers in Deerfield Beach. The record to break was 187 divers. Dixie Divers went well beyond with the NEW WORLD RECORD with 240 scuba divers!
With the collaboration of The City of Deerfield Beach and many other local dive stores and dive clubs, Dixie Divers turned this monumental occasion into a fantastic 2 day event! Stating Friday night, the City of Deerfield closed the City Pier to fishing to allow for divers to enjoy the scenery under the pier for a night dive! Brownie’s Third Lung provided several of their New 3D Buoy’s to illuminate the waters around the pier as dive markers to visually alert boaters there were divers underwater.
Saturday morning, Dixie Divers organized an underwater clean up where bags of fishing line and garbage were methodically removed from the underwater columns of the pier and surrounding areas. After the pier clean up, divers were carefully organized with numbered tags and were organized in a semicircle around the pier underwater between the 3D Buoys. The Official Guinness Coordinator then dove the site to provide an official count. 240 DIVERS!!
Congratulations to Dixie Divers, the City of Deerfield Beach and to all of the divers and people that assisted in making this incredible event possible!
Photo Credit: US Aerial Services – Adam Cozzi. Visit Dixie Divers Facebook page to see more!
Source: www.divenewswire.com
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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