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DDI Instructor Course Completed at Pavilion Dive Center in Dubai, UAE.
DDI Instructor Trainer Mark Slingo travelled to the UAE, to hold a DDI Instructor Training course for local dive instructors Szilvester Toth and Levente Rozsagehyi. The course was held at Pavilion Dive Center in the Jumeirah Beach Resort on 29-30 October 2013.
Congratulations to Sophie Pixie Adams, David Anderson Cutler and Matjaz Repnik, who have completed their DDI Instructor Training programme at Dawn Diving Training Academy in Qawra, Malta conducted by DDI Instructor Trainer Chris Hazlehurst.
"I would like to thank to all participants their courage and hope, and to instructors, assistants and qualified volunteers for the big effort done. Their fantastic support with incredible motivation, helped to reach a really successful No Barrier Tour last Oct 27th in Cabrils (Barcelona). It was the second event in Catalonia for this first year, and I think we improved very much and the scope was wider.
For the second year DDI Portugal took part in the Adapted Olympics that APEXA, Support Association for Outstanding Person of the Algarve, organized in Albufeira, Algarve.
On the morning of friday, 11 of october, a NBT took place at the Municipal Swimming Pool with the support of uDIVING (DDI Dive Center). Several people with physical and mental challenge have experienced scuba diving.
The first ever DDI Instructor Training program to be held in Australia was recently completed in Busselton, Western Australia. DDI Instructor trainer Mark Slingo travelled to conduct the course organised by Ebony Young and Alecia Macdonald of The Dive Shed. Along with Ebony and Alecia, dive instructors Jacque Comery, Ash Payne, Kamila Opon and Troy Mayne completed the pro training and added to the growing number of DDI Instructors in Australia.
Fraser Bathgate, DDI president, was invited by AAATE - Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe for the 12th Conference that took place in the Hotel Tivoli Marina in Vilamoura, Portugal, last September. Fraser presented a revolutionary approach to rehabilitation through Scuba Diving.
DDI Catalonia participated in the event Sport Day at the Guttmann Institute developing a try scuba diving program at the pool of the center. We had patients and very good skills who never trued before and they commented us it was fantastic for them. It was very successful. We would like to thank to Guttmann Institute for this invitation to participate in this interesting sportive day.
http://www.guttmann.com/es-es/inicio.html
H2O Diving in Lund, Sweden, completed a DDI Assistant Diver Course this weekend. The students, Paul, Mikael and Tess, started out in the class room discussing the challenges of their new duties together with their instructor Patrik Jeppsson. The course continued with a long and fun pool session the following evening practising skills which was again used on Saturday when the course was completed with two open water dives.
Location – Dawn Diving, Qawra, Malta
Dates – Friday 25th – Sunday 27th October 2013
Anyone from PADI Divemaster (Or equivalent with an Internationally recognised agency) can take part in the
training. On successful completion of the DDI course and after successfully completing your Training Agency
Instructor course, you only need to pay for the upgrade of your certification, not complete another course.
Contact – Chris at [email protected]
CW Azores is an official diving and whale watching operator in the Azores. We are based in the town of Madalena, on Pico Island.
We offer a wide range of activities such as scuba diving, dive courses, swim with dolphins and whale watching tours.
http://www.cwazores.com/default.aspx