Scuba & H2O Adventure Show 2017 - Partners for Success!

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Scuba & H2O Adventure Show 2017 - Partners for Success!

August 27, 2016 - 10:08

Press Release

The SCUBA & H2O ADVENTURE SHOW will be held in Tacoma, Washington on March 31 - April 2, 2017 at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center.

The former Dive and Travel Expo has expanded to embrace all watersports, while continuing to embrace its core audience of SCUBA divers and their families.

The SCUBA & H2O Adventure Show is partnering with a variety of companies within and outside of the dive industry to create synergy for all. Now in its tenth year, the show is about connecting the dive community with the greater watersports community and the vendors who serve them all-from kayak operators to dive shops.

By expanding the focus of the show to include other watersports groups, non-divers can be exposed to diving as a sport, and divers can explore other water sports.

Exhibitors and water enthusiasts will all be under one roof with the common bond being water based adventure.

Early Bird reservations ($850) for exhibit space are available now through September 1, with a portion of proceeds being donated to the Washington Scuba Alliance, a 501C3. September 2nd, booth fees advance to $950.

Opportunity to Create Valuable Partnerships

We are looking for companies in the diving and watersports industries who are willing to provide valuable training opportunities to divers, commercial divers, scientific divers and related subgroups.

Reach out to us at RickStratton.dnn@gmail.com or call Rick at (360) 639-8205 with your Win-Win proposals!

Already in the works!

On Friday, SCUBA&H2O SHOW will combine with Lifeguard Systems, Butch Hendriks and Andrea Zaferes to offer an Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigations (ADHDI) class for Public Safety Divers and dive teams. This seminar is highly valuable for public safety professionals.

Homicides staged as drowning accidents are some of the most initially misdiagnosed cause and manner of death determinations. Diving fatality/injury investigations too often miss the cascading series of events that caused the incident. This workshop will present aspects of underwater forensics such as evidence recovery, post mortem physiology, what happens to bodies in water, what to document on aquatic scenes. You will also learn what to do in regards to preservation of evidence, how to make court-ready documentation, and what procedures to follow when a dive injury or death has occurred.

Lifeguard Systems will offer several other courses aimed at recreational divers including Self Preservation - Self Rescue and How to Teach a Better Rescue Diver Class and Increase Profits.

Cathy Church, leader in Underwater Photography training will teach a 3 Hr Underwater Photography workshop on Saturday.

More Partnerships to Announce Soon!

Treasure hunt returns!

After being discontinued for the past three years, the Tacoma Treasure Hunt is back and will be held on Sunday, April 2 at 9am. The highly successful event makes the SCUBAH2O Show a weekend of fun and a can't miss event. The entire event is a fundraiser for the Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA) who is making waves with Olympia policy makers to protect and increase dive sites throughout the Northwest. Cost will be $35 including a show T-shirt with unique TREASURE HUNT tattoo!

Buy a Booth!

Early Bird reservations ($850) for exhibit space are available now through September 1, with a portion of proceeds being donated to the Washington Scuba Alliance, a 501C3. September 2nd, booth fees advance to $950.

The Washington State Scuba Alliance (www.wascuba.org), founded in 1992, is committed to working with officials of State, County, City, and Local Departments, and volunteer divers to establish a series of underwater parks that divers and snorkelers may enjoy. Underwater preserves will help prevent the loss of marine biodiversity by creating "safe havens" for all marine life.

The show is a production of the Dive News Network Media Group. Founded in 1996, the Dive News Network has become a media group of five regional scuba magazine and a national watersports magazine - SCUBA & H2O Adventures. Expanding the focus of who a diver is and what a diver does, this innovative company constantly seeks new markets and new customers. The SCUBA & H2O Show was founded in Tacoma in 2006 as an offshoot of the popular Tacoma Treasure Hunt, founded in 2001.

Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center
1500 Broadway | Tacoma, WA 98402

Please let us know if you will be an exhibitor.

Call 360.240.1874 or email us!
RickStratton.dnn@gmail.com
Dive News Network Media Group
PO Box 1494 Oak Harbor, WA 98277