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Diveheart Wins DEMA 2024 Platinum Diving Community Champions Award

1 month ago By Chief minion

The award acknowledges Diveheart’s groundbreaking initiatives, including its adaptive scuba programs that transform lives by helping individuals with disabilities discover their potential beneath the surface. Diveheart’s relentless dedication to promoting accessibility, training instructors, and fostering a supportive community continues to inspire divers and non-divers alike. 

Kirk Krack of Performance Freediving International gives a talk on the high-tech underwater habitat deep.com being developed in the UK. Diving Talks 2024. Photo by Peter Symes.

Autumn Trade Shows: Diving Talks and the DEMA Show 2024

1 month ago By Chief minion

Diving Talks

We will take them in chronological order. Diving Talks, held in late October, has quietly become one of my top favourites. This year’s event was the fourth in a row, and since I have reported extensively on the previous editions here in the magazine, which you can easily go back in the archive and fish out this time, I will limit myself to an update and not repeat all the premises and characteristics of this unique event.

Diveheart Releases New Documentary: “The Legend of the Statue” – A Tribute to Gabe Spataro

2 months ago By Catherine GS Lim

November 13, 2024, Downers Grove, IL — Diveheart proudly presents The Legend of the Statue, a moving documentary now available on YouTube. Award-winning filmmaker David Marsh, and other leaders in the dive industry explore the inspiring journey of Gabe Spataro, a Korean War veteran and adaptive diver whose life was profoundly connected to the iconic Christ of the Abyss statue.

5 divers drifting off Hawaii rescued by sailing boat

2 months ago By Chief minion

The divers became separated from their boat during an excursion, leading them to cling to each other for survival. Camila Storchi and her husband were sailing from Kaneohe to Honolulu when they heard the desperate cries. Storchi recounted to local station Hawaii News Now, “We were passing Hanauma and going around China Walls. He heard screaming for help and he started scanning the ocean and we saw five little dots.”

Ten-year-old Muhammad Afkar Daniel, a right-hand amputee, completed the PADI Junior Open Water Diver course in Tioman Island, Malaysia. (Photo by Martin Ritter, B&J Dive Centre / via Diveheart Malaysia/Kids Scuba press release)

Malaysia Hosts Two Diveheart/PADI Adaptive Diving Events in Accessible Tourism Initiative

2 months ago By My Minion

The event welcomed ten hearing-impaired students from Sekolah Kebangsaan Pendidikan Khas Besut, Terengganu, many of whom had never set foot on a boat or an island, despite living near the coast of Besut. The students, accompanied by their teachers, explored the wonders of the underwater world in Terengganu through snorkeling and scuba diving, where they experienced the sensation of weightlessness. Dr Tengku Farah Kamilia, a lecturer in environmental and marine pollution at UMT, conducted a sharing session with the participants, highlighting the importance of marine conservation.

Emperor Divers and Bilikiki Cruises Announce Exciting New Partnership

2 months ago By Matthew Meier

The arrangement will see Emperor promote its new partner to a more global audience using its large customer base and strong market reputation as well as incorporating some of the operational and development work.

Bilikiki is a long-established and highly-regarded company that have delivered wonderful diving experiences to their guests in the Solomon Islands since the 1980s. As one of the only companies to operate in this region, they are undoubted experts in providing top-quality holidays to their guests in this part of the world.

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