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Novelties in the Scuba Diving Portal
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Gooddive
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controller and Advertising advisor in the Red Sea
New advertisers: Deep
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Travel news
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Curaçao
Prepares for 2007 Dive Festival
The Malaysian International Dive Expo 2007 |
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Marine conservation
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Dive
Into Earth Day
Truly
"green" lawns help us have a healthy blue
"backyard" |
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Equipment news
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Silent Diving Systems shares exciting
product news
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Education news
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PADI
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DAN becomes
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New offers from the last minute board
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| Novelties
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GoodDive
is happy to announce the appointment of Vince Sorgius who is our
Quality controller and Advertising advisor based in
the Red Sea and who is therefore closer to the diving activities
in Egypt. Vince has a lot of diving experience in the Red Sea
and his being based there gives GoodDive the opportunity to have
first hand information about the Red Sea and also gives our
customers in the area a contact with GoodDive.
For
quality concerns and advertising matters dive
business owners in the Red Sea can contact Vince.
Tel: 012 510 92 41. e-mail: vince@gooddive.com
New advertisers:
Deep
Divers offers you a way to discover the Hurghada
natural underwater world. Whether you want to become a diver,
continue your education or just enjoy some great diving in
Hurghada our international staff can teach and show you the way.
We give PADI education and daily diving trips.
For more info visit: http://www.deep-divers.com
Panorama Divers is located in the
lively part of Hurghada town with its restaurants, shops, coffee
shops. The accent is put on the Service rather than on the
amount of divers. PADI recreational education is offered
as well as full and half day dive excursions.
For more info visit: http://www.panoramadivers.com
Funny Divers diving center situated in front of The Three
Corners Empire Hotel, Hurghada and provides all the (PADI / CMAS
/ SSI) courses, including the PADI specialty courses. We do
daily diving to the dive sites around Hurghada and for
liveaboard seekers we go to all the Red Sea liveaboard
destinations.
For more info visit: http://www.funnydivers.com
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Curacao's Dive
Festival 2007 is scheduled to take place from may 26-June 2.
Ranked among the Caribbean’s best islands for diving, called
one of the top destinations for new divers, home to
"Mushroom Forest" - one of the top dives in the world,
and rated best in the Caribbean for shore diving, Curaçao is,
or should be, on any diver’s wish list of places to visit.
Curacao would like to share it's undewater beauty with the world
and invite visitors to come and explore the depths of the island
and it's surrounding waters.
The registration is free and while the day will feature guided
dives, workshops, seminars and advanced dives, the evenings and
nights will bring happy hour gatherings, live entertainment,
beach parties and night dives.
Local dive
operators are offering special packages throughout the festival.
In addition to
fabulous diving, Curaçao also offers great hotel and resort
options, plus a wide variety of topside attractions and dining
options.
For dive festival offers visit:
http://www.caradonna.com/assets/ads/CuracaoDiveFest-online.pdf
The Malaysian International Dive Expo
(MIDE) 2007 will take place
from July 6th to 8th at the Putra World Trade Center, Kuala
Lumpur to promote Malaysia and it's region as a
diving heaven. It will also be a
platform to create the awareness among the community and
interest in the underwater world.
MIDE'07
will be focusing on conservation, to protect the corals,
giant leatherback turtles and other extinct species surrounding
Malaysian and its regional waters. One of the main aim will be
creating awareness to bring back the giant leatherback turtles,
back to our shore by working with the relevant NGO’s related
to the industries...
For more info: http://www.mide.com.my
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| Marine
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Dive
Into Earth Day
During the week of April 22nd, 2007, you can participate in Dive
In To Earth Day! It's an international Earth Day celebration
that mobilizes people and institutions around the world to help
protect our blue planet. Over the past seven years, Dive In
organizers have held 2,000 marine conservation events in 117
countries worldwide, removing trash, educating children and
their communities, supporting marine protected areas, and much
more. Let's all dive together to support our earth and ocean's
well being!
To learn more visit:
http://www.coralreefalliance.org/divein
The pursuit of the
"perfect" green lawn costs a lot, not only in
time and money, but also in the diminished health of our ocean.
Extensive watering, polluting mowers and dangerous chemicals all
add up to a major concern for the people and animals that
happen to come into direct contact with them, and also
because of runoff, for all life that depends on the health of
local streams and rivers, and our ocean as well.
For some tips to make any yard a sanctuary for you and other
life, and a good friend to our ocean, too go to:
http://seastheday.theoceanproject.org/seastheday/2007/march.htm
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| Equipment
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Silent
Diving Systems Features Fourth Element Products:
Fourth
Element understands one size doesn’t fit all . . . . . . . .
. In
response to popular demand, Fourth Element has introduced new
sizes in both the Xerotherm and Xerotherm Arctic lines.
The
addition of XXL sizes ensures that more customers can enjoy
the low bulk, high thermal performance of the drysuit layering
system that is the
UK
’s number one seller.
In
order to achieve a better fit for more divers, Fourth Element
has also introduced different leg lengths in the Arctic line,
adding a shorter leg length to the medium, large and extra
large sizes. The lengths are about 2 inches shorter.
Details
of the new sizing can be found at Fourth Element’s North
American website at www.fourthelement.ca
and www.fourthelement.us
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For more info: http://www.silentdiving.com
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| Education
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In
the year 2007, PADI will introduce an eLearning program.
Internet users will be able any time to start dive courses online
and finish the practical lessons in a PADI diving center in
their region.
DAN and NAUI
are pleased to announce their alliance to work
together for the greater good of diver safety. Effective
immediately, DAN is the official dive accident insurance
provider for NAUI Worldwide.
NAUI
has discontinued its Dive & Travel Insurance Program and
is endorsing the Membership and Dive Accident Insurance
programs offered by DAN. “We’ve always supported
DAN’s mission,” says
Jim Bram
, President of NAUI, “and the quality of their insurance
program is well known. We value what DAN provides to the
dive community, and we hope that our joining in this alliance
will contribute to DAN’s continuing success for many years
to come, while allowing NAUI to focus on maintaining the
strength and quality of its diver education programs.”
Divers currently carrying NAUI’s Dive & Travel Insurance
will be notified of the change as their policies come due for
renewal, and they will be offered the opportunity to join DAN.
In addition, NAUI dive centers and instructors will be
provided materials on DAN and its programs, including the DAN
Student Membership Program.
“DAN has always been dedicated solely to divers and diver
safety,” says Dan Orr, President and CEO of Divers Alert
Network, “and our record certainly speaks for itself.
Yet no matter how much we’ve been able to contribute in the
past, we are always looking for ways to provide more. When
we first developed the idea of working directly with the
training agencies, it was with the intent to increase the
network of resources for divers, as well as the commitment of
the dive industry to safety practices. We are delighted
NAUI has made this public commitment with us, and we are proud
to call them our ally in this continuing directive.”
Founded in 1959, NAUI Worldwide is the second-largest diver
certifying organization in the world, whose members offer a
full range of training programs from Skin Diver through
Instructor Course Director, with dozens of specialty courses
including Nitrox and Technical diving. Tens of thousands of
NAUI member instructors, dive businesses, resorts, and service
centers are located in countries throughout the world.
Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit medical
and research organization dedicated to the safety and health
of recreational scuba divers and is associated with
Duke
University
Medical
Center
. Founded in 1980, DAN has served as a lifeline for the
scuba industry by operating the only 24-hour diving emergency
hotline, a lifesaving service for injured divers.
Additionally, DAN operates a diving medical information
hotline, conducts vital diving medical research, and develops
and provides a number of first-aid and continuing education
programs for everyone from beginning divers to medical
professionals.
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| New offers from the last minute board |
| Here are a few of the ads featuring in the last minute board:
Fiji Islands
Price: 100US$
Please quote DIR06002 when booking.
- 30% off standard pure rates
- 15% off all meal packages
- 10 dives for the price of 6 (five days diving - minimum stay 6 nights)
- 20% off the Great Astrolabe Adventure (minimum 2 people)
See also our specials page
http://www.matava.com/prices.htm
Valid from 1.5.2007 - 30.06.2007
http://www.gooddive.com/board/classifieds.php?a=2&b=316
Croatia
Price: 415 Euros
Groups and clubs' arrangements 2007 for off season (April, May, June,
September and
November). Group week - minimum 8 persons – Half-board accommodation - 10 dives (bottles,
lead, ship and guide included). - Price:415-455 EURO. Not included: - transport from and
to the airport 60 Euro - Croatian Diving Association Card 14 Euro - Tourist tax 1,00
Euro a day Group week PLUS- minimum 14 persons - Half-board accommodation - 10 dives
(bottles, lead, ship and guide included). - Price: 405-445 EURO
Valid from 01. 04. 2007 to 15. 12. 2007
http://www.gooddive.com/board/classifieds.php?a=2&b=312
New Zealand
Price: 350 Euros
Train as a PADI Dive Master with us and get 30% discount
(with travellers discount card). If you want to start a dive
business we are the ones to talk to. We have waterfront
accommodation available for the duration of the course approx 3
months. We are situated in the beautiful Bay of Islands New
Zealand. So get some proper training in sub-tropical water.. you
know it is better than training in warm water.
Valid until 30.04.2007
http://www.gooddive.com/board/classifieds.php?a=2&b=305
Check the board http://www.gooddive.com/board/classifieds.php regularly for new great deals.
If you have a great offer don't hesitate to post it. This service is free!!
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A
lot of our advertisers were very happy with the combination
of two 468X60 pixel and two 120X80 pixel banners including registering your website
on top in the directory and the dive guide. This brings very good feedback from numerous clients who say it yields much higher results than any other advertising for the same price. This package costs 1380$ for one year of advertising instead of 1550$ and is
regularly bought several times by the same advertiser in order to double
or triple the
results. If you're not already taking
advantage of this offer don't wait longer, start now.
To read more: http://www.gooddive.com/scuba-diving-great-value-advertising.htm
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