Year: 2018

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Barry McGill joins RAID

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Robyn Black
Membership Services Coordinator at RAID UK & Malta
Robyn has been diving since she was 13 years old. She's a RAID IT and avid marine biologist with a passion for UK diving. Robyn also handles all membership activities for RAID UK & Malta.
robyn@diveraiduk.com
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Barry McGill is an Irish based deep wreck photographer and technical diving instructor trainer with Indepth Technical, he specialises in teaching CCR and Mixed Gas CCR on both APD and JJ units. Barry started diving in 2000 aged 16 and became heavily involved in technical diving in 2003 and has been diving CCR since 2004. Barry became an advanced nitrox instructor in 2008 and has progressed to the level of CCR Trimix (100m).

Barry runs fully supported technical diving trips to the iconic wrecks of North Donegal (Malin Head), off the North coast of Ireland each summer. These trips allow technical divers to fully explore the breath-taking shipwrecks with the help and guidance of Barry’s experience diving in this area since 2003.

In his free time, Barry loves to focus on this passion for exploration of deep water shipwrecks around the Irish coastline and he has been fortunate enough to discover and explore many significant virgin shipwrecks. Exploring iconic shipwrecks such as the R.M.S. Justicia, H.M.S. Audacious and R.M.S. Lusitania left a significant impression on Barry, helping to develop his desire to discover and explore shipwrecks. Barry has organised and led many deep wreck expeditions exploring the deep wrecks off the North coast of Ireland, which included the S.S. Empress of Britain in 162m and S.S. Transylvania in 130m. Barry has also been part the teams that first discovered and explored the wrecks of HMS Curacoa in 125m (410ft), White Star Liner Carinthia in 116m (380ft), HMS Hurst Castle in 85m (279ft) and World War 1 German U-boats UB 124 and U45 in 65 m (213ft).

Barry will be helping RAID UK & Malta by supporting our dive centres in Ireland. He is also at the Dive Ireland International Expo, Limerick on 3rd & 4th March.

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Bay Divers join RAID

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Robyn Black
Membership Services Coordinator at RAID UK & Malta
Robyn has been diving since she was 13 years old. She's a RAID IT and avid marine biologist with a passion for UK diving. Robyn also handles all membership activities for RAID UK & Malta.
robyn@diveraiduk.com
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RAID are pleased to announce another centre chooses the new RAID way; Bay Divers, led by Karl Kruger an experienced former military diver. Karl has dived extensively throughout the world and has developed a passion for wreck diving and exploration.

Karl is a multi-agency Recreational and Technical instructor, and likes what he’s seen, heard and learnt about RAID after taking the time to examine it.

“RAID’s rebreather, technical and ResEx platforms offers something different that I really like, with deep rebreather diving as my main focus ” says Karl, who has dived his JJ-CCR to depths in excess of 100 metres and has been involved in a number of exploration projects, one of which is still on-going.

James Rogers – Business Director (RAID UK) is quoted “With increasing organic growth like this within our RAID ranks, RAID’s fourth year under new ownership is looking bright, how much do you know about the fasting growth diver training agency in the world today?

Visit www.diveraiduk.com or www.diveraid.com for more information. Or contact the UK office to find out how to join RAID now.

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RAID Connect – Plymouth

Robyn Black
Robyn Black
Membership Services Coordinator at RAID UK & Malta
Robyn has been diving since she was 13 years old. She's a RAID IT and avid marine biologist with a passion for UK diving. Robyn also handles all membership activities for RAID UK & Malta.
robyn@diveraiduk.com
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Join the team from SevernTec Diving for a weekend of wrecks and reefs in Plymouth on 23 – 24 June 2018.

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RAID @ The Great Northern Dive Show

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Robyn Black
Membership Services Coordinator at RAID UK & Malta
Robyn has been diving since she was 13 years old. She's a RAID IT and avid marine biologist with a passion for UK diving. Robyn also handles all membership activities for RAID UK & Malta.
robyn@diveraiduk.com
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Meet the team who will be on the stand at The Great Northern Dive Show

James Rogers

James is the Director of RAID UK & Malta. He has many years of experience working in the diving industry. He is keen to spread the word about RAID and promote the benefits RAID has, not only to divers but to instructors and dive centre owners.

 
 
Robyn Black

Robyn has been diving she was 13 years old and is now an Instructor Trainer for RAID. After working around the world she has returned to the UK as the Membership Co-ordinator for RAID UK & Malta. Robyn is also a Marine Biologist and keen to promote marine conservation activities to dive centres.


Olivier van Overbeek

Oli started diving in 1998 on holiday in the south of France, where he instantly fell in love with the underwater world. He’s a RAID Recreational and Technical Instructor Trainer as well as a test diver for various manufacturers, and a technical consultant and course author for dive RAID International. Oli runs DiveLife, in Manchester and Diving Matrix.

 
Pete Black

Pete has been an Instructor since 2004 and has run Deep Blue Pirates, in Whitley Bay, for the past 10 years. He has a wealth of diving knowledge for the UK and around the world as well as being a RAID Recreational Instructor Trainer.

 
 
Garry Dallas

Garry is a well-known figure in the diving industry, both here in the UK and around the world. He is a recreational and cave Instructor Trainer for RAID, he is also the go-to-guy for sidemount diving. Garry will also be giving a presentation at the show – watch this space for more details.

 
Rob Mackins

Rob has worked extensively in Europe as a dive guide and Instructor. He is now a RAID Recreational Instructor Trainer and has written the RAID First Aid course. He has in-depth knowledge in first aid and diversifying a dive centres business with additional courses.

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Irresistible Offer from RAID

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Diver and regional office owner, with 30 years of diving experience. We need to talk - about joining RAID today!
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2018 is a celebration year for RAID. We’ve made it, the system is tried and tested and completed to the industry highest standards. We need to promote ourselves and support the industry so we’ve decided to do the following for you!

If your like most dive retailers in the UK at present you are probably looking to make a change in your business, things must change, one of the biggest changes you can make is your training agency, but this is a big decision.

You may have considered a change but are concerned that a change may put you in a worse position and then of course there is the issue of the cost of changing.

Don’t worry the RAID team will be supporting you every step of the way; we have put together an incredible offer to make sure this is a great decision.

3 MONTHS FREE CERTIFICATIONS  (UK and Eire dive centres only)

We are confident that there is nothing to fear from changing agencies but we want to put our money where our mouth is and back you with 3 months free certifications to kick start the change. This will not only compensate you for any cost or time to change it will also enable you to make some extra money while you’re settling in.

We can tell you how good RAID is but its not until you experience the RAID difference that you can be as certain as we are about the benefit RAID will be to your business.

How this works:

All certifications are bought in the usual way; at the end of the agreed three months we run a report on the certification numbers and credit usage. Once this is finalised these are re-supplied into your centres courses credit bank to be reapplied to new divers joining/training with you.

We need to build the awareness of the strength and simplicity of the RAID system, only by joining and training on the RAID platform can this be witnessed and the on-going value recognised.

Contact James or Robyn today to join the RAIDers team and see why we’re the fasting growing diver training agency in the world today!

info@diveraiduk.com

Quote: 3FreeRAIDUK

Terms & Conditions apply:

All dive centres need to be registered for this offer by October 31st

General level & Try Dive credits only

RAID courses must be offered at an equal or greater level to other agency courses online – including website, social media and other promotional materials.