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PADI wins TAUCHEN Award for Best Diver Training Organization for 21st year
PADI® has been recognized by TAUCHEN Magazine and its readers as the best diver training organization for the 21st consecutive year. Each year, for more than two decades, readers of the popular German diving magazine, TAUCHEN, are invited to vote for their favorites in 17 different industry categories. With the magazine focusing on dive travel, equipment and industry news, categories include equipment, dive shops and diver training agencies.
This year, the TAUCHEN Awards were presented on 24 January 2019 in conjunction with the BOOT Show in Düsseldorf, Germany.
“We’re extremely proud and honored to have been awarded the prestigious TAUCHEN Award for Best Diver Training Organization again,” says Mark Spiers, Vice President of Training, Sales and Field Services for PADI Europe, Middle East and Africa. “This would not have been possible without the continued hard work, professionalism and dedication of the PADI Members and the continued loyalty of PADI Divers.”
The bronze dolphins awarded for each category winner are highly coveted in the diving industry. PADI has been the unwavering favorite diver training organization, taking home the bronze dolphin statuette for the category every year since the award’s inception.
“Thank you to TAUCHEN Magazine and their readers for recognizing PADI as the world’s Best Training Organization for the 21st year,” says Spiers. “I would like dedicate this award to PADI Members across the planet, whose expert diver training and professionalism keep PADI as The Way the World Learns to Dive. Together, we are PADI, and a global force for good.”
For more from PADI, visit www.padi.com
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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