Riet and Tom completed our DDI Pro course
Hi there! This is Riet and Tom writing, two of the newest Disabled Divers International Instructors. We recently completed our course with founder Flemming Thyge and new DDI Course Director Sander Buis at Oceans 5 Dive in wonderful Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia.
My first DDI No Barrier Tour
No Barrier Tour in Bali
Once in your life you will get an amazing experience.
This happened to me the 9th of September 2014. A friend of mine and CEO of DDI (Disabled Divers International) organized a DDI No Barrier Tour in Bali at Crystal Divers. He asked me to help to give disabled Indonesian persons a chance to feel how it feels to dive, to breath underwater.
Pro- Course Blue Planet Aquarium, UK
Pro Training Course held at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Elsmere Port.
Left to right are Paul Roberts (new DDI Instructor, Shaun Connell (DDI Instructor Trainer) and Matthew Martin (new DDI Instructor). This now brings the total of DDI Instructors trained by Shaun at the Blue Planet to 3,5, the first being in August 2010.
Shaun runs a DDI Instructor Training Centre in the UK and has been actively involved in Pro Training across Europe since 2009, more information can be found at http://www.scubability.net/
1 st DDI Try Dive of Slovenian guy
The diving club first try with Nino Batagelj, a tetraplegic person from Slovenia, May 29th 2014 on the Croatian coast. After a pre-meeting, which was mainly based on explanations about the “ddi first try dive programm” that sunny day was perfectly made for putting the theory into practice.
Nino was before his accident, which caused his adverse effect, very active in different kind of sports, but never tried diving before, so he was quite excited. Nino was very interested in the procedure how to prepare theequipement and passed all the required skills without any problems in confined water. Although Nino’s mobility of fingers is limited, he never lost his patience, enthusiasm or motivation.