Headed South

Joe and I will fly to Orlando, FL tomorrow afternoon for the only international trade only event for the scuba diving, water sports, and adventure travel industries, the DEMA Show. DEMA is run by the DEMA organization(Diving Equipment & Marketing Association). With predictions of 11,000+ industry professionals meeting this year it's sure to be a good time. Joe and I will be joined by Tom later in the week to take several classes on gear repair and servicing, tank inspections, seminars on new and upcoming products offered by manufacturers from around the world. We hope to learn alot, meet some great people, and bring back some exciting information and maybe products! See you when we get back!

A few congratulations!

Jamie brought in the last of the paperwork for his Advanced Open Water Diver certification today. Once we submit everything it will be official. We'd like to say Congrats to our newest Advanced Diver!

Steve also has done all the paperwork and taken the test for his rescue certification, so Congrats to the new Rescue Diver! We hear that Divemaster and maybe instructor certifications may be in his future!

Rescue Diver Class

The weather held out for us this past weekend and helped make our Rescue class a success. Friday night and Saturday morning was the Emergency First Responder course. We practiced the new guidelines of 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths and got to try out the AED. Saturday afternoon was spent in the Holiday Inn pool practicing rescue techniques that would be put to use in the open water. Sunday was sunny and 75 degrees which is unheard of this late in October. The wind was a bit strong making the in water rescues a challenge with the waves and current.
Joe T., Rob and I took turns being victims that needed rescuing, while Steve, Joe G. and Kari worked hard to save us. Check out some pictures of the students in action below!

Rob explaining the situations to Steve, Joe G. and Kari.

Me busy being saved!

Ahhh!! The "recovery position". With those rocks I needed to recover from the recovery position!

Kari taking in the beautiful afternoon.

Rob in need of a rescue!

Joe T. enjoying some O2!

Joe T. and his lifesavers!

It felt like diving in a washing machine, but above water it was a beautiful fall day.
Now the students just have to take the final exam and they will be official.
Check back for congratulatory notes!

Let's go diving!!

Underwater Digital Cameras

We are having a special! If you buy an in stock UW digital camera and sign up for the Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course you get a discount on the price of the camera! With awesome packages available and some of the newest technology there's nothing to loose! Just imagine the memories you can capture on your next dive!
Stop by to see some of the pictures taken with the cameras displayed around the store.