Author: James Rogers

Diver and regional office owner, with 30 years of diving experience. We need to talk - about joining RAID today!
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Go Diving Show and Pro Update 2020

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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Early Renewal 2019/20

It’s August already, it’s crazy how quickly the year is moving. This means you have two months left before your Memberships expire. To help everyone, we want to avoid a mass rush to complete all our renewal requests on the 1st Oct, please consider renewing now until Oct 2020.

All current Dive Centres should contact their Regional Office to renew themselves and their training teams – for the UK and Malta use: info@diveraiduk.com or call 0191 4324644.

All current Instructors/ Divemasters should organise their renewal through their affiliated centre or log-in to their profiles and following the online renew prompts.

All new centres and Pro’s wanting to join RAID now, the perfect time, should call James – 07584 666672 or email james@diveraiduk.com

Early Renewal from TODAY!
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RAID Receives Great News from HSE about Paperless Training

Most people in the dive industry love having fun and active instructors typically love to teach. One thing we all hate is paperwork. Not surprisingly when an incident does occur there is a mad scramble to make sure the paperwork is in place but unfortunately the paperwork is often incomplete or missing. This is certainly not the time to find out.

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Pro Member Medical & Liability Release

I want to highlight one important area of RAID Membership. You may have now noticed that all Instructors will need to login and update their Medical & Liability Release (MLR) which will be valid until 1st October 2018 (renewal date) after which it will expire and following completion again, will be valid for a full 12 months (Expiry 1st Oct 2019).

Any question with ‘YES’; requires dive medical clearance, which should be sent to RAID UK for uploading to the relevant Instructor profile.

Once the medical is verified (HSE or other recognized doctors note) the status will look like this:

The RAID App will also be updated this week to follow the MLR requirements.

Any new Members can renew now (from July) and gain an additional three months of Membership for your first year.

It’s so important to be honest here, I’m 49 with at least 49.000 miles on my body-clock, my HSE medical covers me for my Yes’s, so me, my students and my company are all protected when they’re uploaded correctly onto the RAID system. It’s essential that everyone is truthful here!

It’s also required that all teaching pro’s have Public Liability insurance, you should supply this to us, where it’ll be uploaded too.

Remember, your allocated Dive Centre will help you with your Membership and the supply of these important documents. RAID UK and Malta only deal dive centres ideally, so ask your local RAID to help you.

So be Green not Red and renew like a pro!