DDI Award 2012
DDI is very pleased to announce that Anders Orpana (Representative of Norway) receives a DDI Award for outstanding achievement and support in 2012. Anders Orpana has had a very high activity level during the 2013 season and has developed new programs for DDI. Anders is also an outstanding representative of disabled diving and in DDI the responsible person for the documentation of the positive effects of disabled diving. The feedback DDI have been given by the members and the disabled divers themselves are all very positive and excited about Anders' work and effort.
When Anders Orpana received the certificate on behalf of DDI Foundation he said "It has been a pleasure working with DDI and I feel part of a family”. The DDI look forward to continue our cooperation and wish Anders good luck further on.
DDI IT Center receives an award
Dawn Diving Training Academy in Malta have just won an award for "Disabled Diving School of the year 2013" and the owner and Director of Diving, Trevor Prager, will be presented with the award at the London International Dive Show (LIDS) on Saturday 23rd March 2013. Mr Prager said "We are very proud here at Dawn Diving, to be awarded Disabled Diving School of the year 2013. We are the only DDI Instructor Training Centre with over all Accessibility Level: 0 (very good) in the Eastern Mediterranean
and all are staff are DDI qualified Instructors . We have made every effort when constructing our new premises in Qawra, Malta to make sure the centre can be fully and easily used by all sections of the community. For more information go to
Linköping DiveCenter
Linköping DiveCenter is proud to present our first DDI-Pooldiver.
Most of the course, both theory- and poolsessions we have integrated in our ordinary PADI Open Water Dive courses. Lena is keen on learning more so she can visit lake Vättern for a "real" dive.
We wish her all the best with her new lifestyle and welcome her in to our divesociety.
Göran Nyqvist, DDI Staff Linköping Divecenter.
Just completed the DDI Assistant Instructor
I have just completed the DDI assistant instructor programme with my good friend Chris Hazlehurst in Malta.
As a sufferer or fibromyalgia I have suffered for years with great pain throughout my body, an invisible disability of which people, do not understand and hence friends and colleagues assume I was just “winging” and “attention seeking”.