Join the team from SevernTec Diving for a weekend of wrecks and reefs in Plymouth on 23 – 24 June 2018.
RAID Connect – Plymouth
Author: Robyn Black
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
RAID @ The Great Northern Dive Show
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.
RAID General Diving Standards (RGDS) Version 54.4.7 Released
These standards reflect RAID’s ISO ratings and are designed to the highest industry standards.
Areas of immediate new interest within the standards are RAID’s change, like other mainstream training agencies, to allow training to start at 10 years old for junior divers. Instructors training junior divers are encouraged to visit our blog, in addition to reading the new standards, as the use of training credits varies from 10-11 year old who will use a junior open water credit and 12-15 year old who will use a open water 20 qualification with various junior diver restrictions.
Other new additions alongside the new look and feel of the document are the new RAIDaptive courses including an entry-level program, a buddy diver program and a specialty program. In the technical area RAIDs new OC Deco 40, 50 and 60 diver and instructor programs will catch the eye and need review.
Again with RAID these standards are out of date if downloaded off your professional log in profiles, they continue to appear on the log in page for you, the look and feel is greatly improved with index hyperlinking for ease of document navigation.
RAID RGDS are just that now, the instructor ‘how to teach’ guides are all freely available to qualified instructors through their instructor login profiles through the course materials held there.
Don’t delay! Get online and review this great new document and remember it is a standard to review the course standards before teaching.
YouTube Channel
As RAID continue to grow we are adding to our teaching resources available at no additional cost to our instructors, divemasters and students. Recently we have been working hard to create open circuit skills videos that complement the RAID Open Water 20 course materials for students. These can be found, along with other useful videos, on the Dive RAID YouTube channel.
The videos break down the skills into step-by-step guides for students to watch before their confined sessions or as a resource when a student is struggling with a particular skill.
On the YouTube channel you can also find a great video from the RNLI on diver safety. This video can be used as a educational resource for all level of diver and can be shared on social media or embedded onto your dive centre website.
Mobile log in for diveraid.com
We have identified that 75% of log-ins to the RAID system come through the mobile site, as technology and mobile applications improve, these figures will continue to grow. It is clear that we will need to resource the mobile site more in the future and this is one of our priorities at RAID.
We recommend that you make yourself familiar with the RAID system through the mobile version of the site. In the future we will be converting the desktop site to match the mobile site so that both versions are the same.
