Eduardo Pavia talks about technical diving in Italy
Eduardo Pavia – Technical Diving in Italy Video from SVARNet
August 25th, 2010Kids AWARE Program
August 16th, 2010AWARE Kids Activity Morning 10.00-12.00, Thursday 26th August 2010
Are you wondering who AWARE Kids are and what they do?
AWARE Kids are the superheroes of the underwater world.
They love the water and help protect all creatures great and small. Hundreds of AWARE Kids across the globe are making a difference right now in their own schools and neighbourhoods.
As an AWARE Kid you can be an underwater superhero, too.
The Fun Part
You can make a difference !
Learn about some of the most pressing problems facing these vulnerable environments and everyday actions you can take to help conserve them. It’s informative, interesting and you learn how to make a difference.
For Parents:
Project AWARE Foundation is the scuba diving industry’s leading non profit environmental organization dedicated to conserving the aquatic environment through education, advocacy and action.
This activity is aimed at children aged 6-12 years old.
Your kids will spend Thursday morning (10am-noon) doing puzzles, playing games and other activates to learn more about protecting the marine environment.
At the end of the morning your children will receive a Project AWARE certificate.
Please note that a parent or guardian will need to remain on the premises with the child.
Please contact the shop on 0161 796 0300 to book a place.
There is no cost but a donation to Project AWARE is at your discretion
DiveLife customer Stephen Burke and the Graf Zeppelin
August 16th, 2010
The day before the Commandant Fourcault sails out on a wreck diving expedition in the North Sea, we’re on board to talk about wreck diving to several expedition members. Stephen Burke started diving at a very young age, and got passionate about diving in cold water, mainly around Cornwall. He has written a book about the Graf Zeppelin, the last Nazi warship built in Germany. This ship sank in the Baltic, and Stephen tells us why it is his ultimate dream wreck.
Click here to see the interview – the dive should follow shortly.
New Scubapro 2G Computer
August 11th, 2010
Scubapro have released a NEW version of their Aladin Tec 2G two gas computer.
ALADIN 2G is a clear example of relentless development at SCUBAPRO.
Engineered for technical divers who want specific features for total freedom in full
safety, and for recreational divers who appreciate detailed, yet easily accessible
information, but want the possibility to evolve in the sport. The ALADIN 2G
combines a sophisticated algorithm with the compact size and accessibility of the
Aladin family.
New to the ALADIN 2G:
• PDIS (Profile Dependent Intermediate Stops) optimizes your dive in complete security. The PDIS option
calculates an intermediate stop based on how much nitrogen uptake your body has
endured, taking into account your current dive, previous dives and breathing mixes. PDIS is a unique scientific application
for safer, more optimized diving in both the recreational and technical arena.
• APNEA Mode with unique features: this mode includes faster sampling rates, manual start,
current depth, maximum depth, dive time in minutes and seconds, water temperature, ascent and descent speed,
APNEA specific alarms and warnings, adjustable water density and an APNEA specific logbook.
• New modern look round buttons.
Aladin Features:
• Predictive Multi-Gas: Allows you to enjoy the full benefits of carrying high oxygen concentration mixes in
addition to your main breathing gas.
• Gauge mode — operates as technical depth gauge to a depth of 120m, with one-press stop watch
function. Unique in the diving industry, in this mode it displays a continuously updated average depth,
which can be reset by the diver at any time.
• Active backlight with push-on, push-off function.
• Bookmark function during dive — highlight specific moments with a simple button press and add
comments in the SmartTRAK profile later.
• Altimeter accurately measures altitude with a 15m resolution. The altitude alarm alerts the diver when
approaching an altitude incompatible with saturation status due to a recent dive.
• Nitrox settings between 21% and 100% in 1% increments
• Full watch functions and a basic choice of adjustments without the need of a PC.
• Adjustable ppO2 between 1.0 and 1.6bar
2020Vision
July 26th, 2010
2020VISION is the most ambitious conservation visual media initiative ever staged in Britain.- 2020VISION is a blueprint for a wilder Britain where it’s recognised that healthy ecosystems are good for us too.
- 2020VISION will encourage a vision beyond isolated reserves to a nature without frontiers, where animals can move freely between habitats. In other words, thinking big!
- 2020VISION will nurture a new ethos that reconnects wild places with each other and reconnect us with wild places.
Take a look at www.2020v.org
Sidemount Course at Capenwray – now there is another way
July 15th, 2010 
The DiveLife Team were at a wet Capenwray today rolling out the new Sidemount Diving Course. The course, taught by resident Course Director Steve Martin, was conducted over the last week with classroom sessions followed by today and tomorrow at the local Open Water site.
Steve Hemstalk, training manager for DiveLife, was also attending the course in order to hone his diving skills and sharpen his knowledge. The course went well with all students having a great day and looking forward to tomorrow.
Full report to follow.
Seashell Universal Underwater Camera Housing
July 2nd, 2010
X-Ray Magazine – Online lifestyle magazine for divers
June 23rd, 2010
Wrecksite.eu – Online Wreck database for everyone to use
June 23rd, 2010
The wreck site is the world largest online wreck database, we have 79.460 wrecks and 77.570 positions, 10.810 images, 542 maritime charts, 12.050 ship owners and builders and a lot more…
Visitors who want to help and see more data, have to subscribe. (free)
Visitors who want to see 193 maritime charts in detail and +26.520 wreck data that we have from the UK Hydrographic Office, may contribute 25€/year.
Last chance to upgrade your Uwatec!
June 23rd, 2010TIME IS RUNNING OUT………..ITS NOW OR NEVER!!
We are offering our consumers a £85.00 discount in a ‘last call’ exchange offer for UWATEC AIR X, AIR Z OR ANY OTHER OLD UWATEC DIVE COMPUTERS.
Beginning June 20 through September 30, 2010 only, SCUBAPRO is offering the consumer a £85.00 credit towards the purchase of a new Galileo SOL or LUNA when they bring in for exchange an AIR X, AIR Z or other old UWATEC dive computer. Consumersneed to contact you directly about this special offer.
Once this special offer has expired, SCUBAPRO UWATEC will no longer be able to offer exchanges, returns, replacements or repairs on the AIR X or AIR Z* computer series to consumers.
Technical Training to enjoy a renaissance as IANTD UK changes ownership
June 16th, 2010
“In the early 90’s when Kevin Gurr set up IANTD UK, it was the first technical diver training agency in Europe”, stated Martin Stanton, Director of IANTD UK. “We’re therefore genuinely excited that the mantle is now passing to us. We’d like to thank Kevin Evans and Simon Watton for caretaking the agency since 2008, and wish them well in future projects. Now we’re in for a very exciting time because currently IANTD UK (www.iantd.uk.com) is in a very good position to grow and expand. After all virtually every experienced diver and instructor in the UK has done an IANTD training course at some point in their career.
Whilst this announcement doesn’t immediately seem to be that important to ‘the diver in the sea’, it’s of more significance to the UK Dive Shops and Training Centres. “From today we delighted to announce fulltime superior support ensuring same day despatch of materials, efficient processing of qualification cards and high Quality Assurance.
We know that at the end of the day a good course primarily comes down to the quality of the Instructor rather than the Agency. A good way of demonstrating this is by looking at Mark Powell (TDI), Phill Short (IANTD) and Rich Walker (GUE) in the water – there’s not much to tell them apart. So get a well trained experienced instructor and you gain so much more from your course. Hence it’s very important to us that we focus on high Quality Assurance and Training, delivering from the top downwards. Consequently we’re delighted to announce that Phill Short will be the new UK Training Director whose remit will include Standards of Training”.
“As an Instructor, Instructor Trainer and Instructor Trainer Trainer who has maintained loyalty to one Technical Agency throughout my career – IANTD – I’m honoured that Tom Mount and Joe Dituri have asked me to be involved with the new management team at IANTD UK”, stated Phill Short. “I was very lucky to be introduced to the world of Technical Diving and the diving opportunities it could offer me by Kevin Gurr. Over the years I’ve gained experience through teaching, and knowledge on further instructor courses and diving on many cave and wreck expeditions. I also consider myself fortunate that I’ve been trained and evaluated as a Cave Instructor by Tom Mount.
Being appointed UK Training Director and work alongside Martin Stanton is very exciting because it gives me the perfect opportunity to share some of the incredible things I’ve learnt over the last fifteen years. I very much look forward to raising the quality training bar with my colleagues to help create safer and better educated divers at all levels”.
IANTD UK can be contacted by email on info@iantd.uk.com or telephone 0845 644 0635.
Congratulations!
June 13th, 2010Well done Alan, John and Paul on completing further speciality training over the past three days. Alan Whitehead, Course Director for PADI from Malta, arrived with us on Friday morning and after three long days our instructors have now been assessed and can teach a further ten PADI Specialities each. Thanks Alan and congratulations guys.
DiveLife introduces the Advanced Wreck Sidemount Course from Steve Martin
June 13th, 2010Steve Martin, (DiveLife’s Sidemount Instructor) PADI TecRec Advanced Sidemount Wreck training course promotional video. These penetration scuba dives were made on the Eurobulker X shipwreck in sidemount configuration using the Golem Gear Armadillo side mount exploration harness A2 and the Steve Bogaerts designed razor harness. Other harnesses that can be modified are Dive Rite Nomad, Hollis SMS 100. Location Athens, Greece. For course information visit www.sidemountscubadiving.com edited by Stephen Martin
Sidemount Scuba Diving Courses
June 13th, 2010Why not give our new sidemount diving courses a try. Taught by experienced PADI Course Director and avid cave diver Steve Martin, these courses will give more than just the pointers but the in depth knowledge gained by Steve over the past 10 years whilst travelling extensively throughout Mexico and Australasia
Basking Sharks in the UK 2010
June 13th, 2010Basking sharks on the South Coast – 2010
Scubapro A700 nominated for the Gold Compasses Award
June 12th, 2010
The A700 second stage regulator has received a nomination for the highest rated Italian Industrial Design Award: Compasso D’Oro, meaning ‘Golden Compasses,’ in the Sport Category.
This award is given by the ADI (Industrial Design Association). They have a permanent committee analyzing and selecting the best products on the market in terms of innovation and quality.
The Compasso D’Oro prize is awarded only every 3 years, collecting the best products designed in Italy and includes them in a Design Index. This index is split into different categories such as automotive,
fashion, sport etc. and the index is shown and communicated at main international design events.
Guillaume Nery at Dean’s Blue Hole
June 12th, 2010World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the French champion Julie Gautier.
Seals whiskers sense far away fish
June 12th, 2010
In a study led by Wolf Hanke of the Marine Science Centre at the University of Rostock, researchers used an artificial fish in their experiment, to show that seals use their whiskers to detect the hydrodynamic trail fish leave in their wake
NEW Halcyon Regulators Release
January 10th, 2010The new Halcyon regulators represent an elegant combination of performance and flexibility; you choose a regulator combination of your choice form two first and two second stages.
Suunto D4 now in Red & White
January 10th, 2010
The ever popular Suunto D4 dive computer and watch is now available in Red & White. Click to find out more
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