Month: January 2020

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Go Diving Show and Pro Update 2020

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The Go Dive Show is nearly upon us, and we’ve got 2 days of Pro updates scheduled for you.

Thursday 20th Feb – Instructor Trainer Update

Location: GODIVA suite
Time Table: 10.00 Start – 16.00 Finish
Main Presenter: Paul Toomer

Friday 21st Feb – Pro Member Update (Divemasters & Instructors)

Location: Vodafone Lounge

Morning Session, Members ONLY

10.00 – 10.15                    Welcome & Intros

10.15 – 10.35                     Emma Farrell – Freediving & Marketing

10.35 – 11.35                     Steve Lewis & Paul Toomer – Standard Update

11.35 – 12.10                     Olivier van Overbeek & James Rogers – New Courses & Products, Survey Presentation

12.10 – 12.20                    Coffee Break

12.20 – 12.50                    Olivier van Overbeek & James Rogers – Crossovers and IDP’s, Show Plan

12.50 – 13.30                    Team – 2019 Celebration & Recognition, 2020 Vision

Afternoon Session – Open to All industry Pro’s (upon registration)  

14.00 – 14.20                     James Sanderson – Aqualung Presentation

14.20 – 14.50                     Steve Lewis – Safe Diving Practices

14.50 – 15.30                     Olivier van Overbeek  & James Rogers – The Value of Good Instructors

15.30 – 15.45                     John Vickers – Blue Abyss

15.45 – 16.00                     Richard Cullen – Deptherapy

Sat&Sun 22&23rd Feb – Show Open To Public

During Saturday & Sunday, all pro’s are invited and indeed very welcome to join the team on the RAID stand to represent the brand, and advise the audience on our cool products and diving ethos.

A Few House Rules:

  • Everyone is free to promote their own RAID courses
  • No Equipment sales on-site, please
  • No Flyers or Banners, if you have some, please do not position them on the stand
  • Be region aware, it’s better to bring someone into a RAID centre in an area close to them, then to lose them to another agency

We will have available:

  • WiFi to use (RAID Stand only)
  • Tables to use
  • Electricity
  • A meeting/consultation area (this will require booking ahead of time)
  • Refreshments (for the meeting area attendees only)
  • Coat Storage, for dive centres only, please don’t offer this to anyone else.

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This data will be used to help us build marketing materials for YOU and YOUR centre.
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RAID General Standards – Photo Update

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Effective Immediately RAID have issued the following standard update.
This excerpt is a pre-release of what will be included in General Standard Update v.58 which is scheduled for immediate release.

Photography/Cameras/Movies

With the specific exception of the circumstances listed below, RAID neither sanctions instructors nor students using hand-held underwater cameras (still or movie) while on course. Operating a camera is distracting and takes attention away from the task at hand – either leading or following course requirements. Instructors are cautioned that, in the unfortunate case of an incident leading to any type of unfavourable outcome resulting in loss of equipment, minor injury, serious injury or death, there is no defence possible when participants were distracted by the presence of a camera.

Regardless of the level of training. No cameras, please.
This applies to instructors AND students.

The exceptions are:

  1. Instructors may use a helmet-mounted camera to document student skills and drills in confined water.
  2. Instructors or students may install a fixed camera (e.g. on a tripod) on automatic (running continuously or on time lapse) in confined water to document skills and drills
  3. A certified assistant may use a camera (still or movie) to document any and all dives in confined water and for open water dives as long as their presence has not been used modify maximum allowable instructor/student ratios. In simple terms, as long as they are not considered part of the primary dive team. RAID suggests that in these cases, the “camera person” dives with a suitably experienced and certified dive buddy.