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RAID releases new Advanced Wreck Diver course
RAID International have announced the release of the second in their series of wreck diving courses: the RAID Advanced Wreck Diver Course.
On making the announcement, RAID International Director Terry Cummins said: “We at RAID believe our new series of wreck diving programs are the most diver responsive wreck programs ever released. Following on from the release earlier last month of Basic Wreck, Advanced Wreck takes wreck diving to a higher level. For example, while in Basic Wreck we acknowledged some divers may just want to go down and look around the outside of a wreck, Advanced Wreck caters for those divers that will definitely want to penetrate the wreck safely.”
As is the case with Basic Wreck, Advanced Wreck brought together a keen and experienced international team of wreck diving enthusiasts like Cummins, Karl Graddy, Paul Toomer, Mark McCrum and Joane Edney to provide the unique content. Also, well-known overhead environment diver Darrell Staight provided detailed guidance, still photography and video footage on proper reel and guideline use linked directly from the Advanced Wreck online platform to the also new RAID TV on YouTube.
RAID International Training Director Paul Toomer said: “Dive professionals and divers alike are getting use to and excited by the unafRAID approach we are taking at RAID to program development generally. They do not follow a traditional track. Clearly, these programs are unique in the diving industry. In the case of wreck, our programs enable divers to engage in wreck diving in a manner that suits their own interests, needs, desires and skill level. We conducted Beta Tests on the new RAID Wreck Diver and Deep 40 Courses in the UK and were super impressed with the awe-inspiring input we received.”
RAID International Recreational Training Director Mark McCrum said: “While Basic Wreck covers general information about wreck diving, equipment required, various gear configurations, dive management and open water considerations, Advanced Wreck takes all that and more to a higher level with further cutting edge ideas and comprehensive practical training. Of course, and as always with RAID, there is seamless integration to other RAID programs. For example, those that have completed the RAID Advanced 35 and RAID Basic Wreck and can easily progress further in wreck diving by completing the additional academic and practical skills in Advanced Wreck while receiving credit for training dives already completed. Dive professionals will also love the way the Basic and Advanced Wreck programs can be run together up to the point where the dives get deeper and more complex”.
RAID International CEO Jim Holliday said: “The wreck diving series we are releasing are a great addition to the RAID extensive list of online courses we have, easily the largest collection in the dive industry. What the RAID Team has produced with these is not only ground breaking, but illustrates and is indicative of what the RAID Team is capable of when stacked up against all our other achievements over the last 12 months since our relaunch in early 2014. If there was any doubt whether RAID was going to be a force in the diving industry that surely must have now evaporated.”
Toomer added: “you will have to wait for what we have in store for you with our Technical Wreck Course, but I must say that that one is going to be awesome, and again will bring together some of the most experienced technical and wreck diving educators on the planet.”
To learn more contact your local RAID Regional Office or find all the information you need on all RAID programs at www.diveraid.com and freediving at www.freedivingraid.com. visit RAID’s Facebook page here.
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Dive Worldwide Announces Bite-Back as its Charity of the Year
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
Gear News
Scubapro Free Octopus Promotion 2024
Free Octopus with every purchase of a SCUBAPRO regulator system
Just in time for the spring season, divers can save money with the FREE OCTOPUS SPRING PROMOTION! Until July 31st SCUBAPRO offers an Octopus for free
with every purchase of a regulator system!
Get a free S270 OCTOPUS with purchase of these combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with A700
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with S620Ti
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with D420
MK25 EVO Din mit S620Ti-X
Get a free R105 OCTOPUS with purchase of the following combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with G260
MK25 EVO or MK17 EVO with S600
SCUBAPRO offers a 30-year first owner warranty on all regulators, with a revision period of two years or 100 dives. All SCUBAPRO regulators are of course certified according to the new European test standard EN250-2014.
Available at participating SCUBAPRO dealers. Promotion may not be available in all regions. Find an authorized SCUBAPRO Dealer at scubapro.com.
More information available on www.scubapro.com.
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