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RAID International Appoints Mark McCrum As Recreational Training Director
It’s been quite the week for announcements from RAID International about the appointment of key positions within the organisation.
Following the news yesterday that SSI’s former International Training Director of Freediving Mike Wells has joined RAID as their new Director of Freediving, today the organisation has announced that they have appointed SSI’s former International Training Director and General Manager of SSI’s Australasia operation Mark McCrumb as their new Recreational Training Director.
Here is the official press release:
RAID International is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark McCrum to the position of Recreational Training Director for RAID. Mark joins the growing and highly experienced RAID Executives, Instructor Trainers, Instructors and store owners moving to RAID (www.diveraid.com).
Mark started a diving and training career while in the Royal Australian Air Force. As an Air Force trainer he gained skills in training that would lead to an extensive career in training for the dive industry. Mark started diving in 1984 and became a dive professional in 1986. From there he started a 30 year diving journey that has taken him around the world. Mark has been involved in diver training at the highest level and has held qualifications in PADI, SSI and now RAID.
For the last 6 years Mark has been in the role of International Training Director and General Manager for SSI in Australasia. He has extensive background in dive shop business training having been involved in the training of sales skills, customer service, equipment servicing and customer relationship functions for more than 20 years.
Mark’s experience comes from having been a part of almost every area of the dive industry. He has worked in diver training, wholesale, retail, resort operations, dive training agencies and Australian Recognised Training Organisations. Most recently he won a Service Skills Australia Excellence Award for industry collaboration in training with a self authored Marine Research Diver Programme.
Having been appointed Recreational Training Director for RAID he brings 3 decades of dive industry experience to the organization.
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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