PADI e-Card Replacement Certification Card Now Available
You now have the option of selecting between a PADI eCard™, a plastic replacement card or both!
Not sure what to choose?
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Discount Admission for DAN Members at Our World Underwater
Come join your fellow divers at Our World Underwater in Rosemont, Ill., on Feb. 17-19, 2012. As a DAN Member, you even get a discount on admission! Just bring your DAN Member card to the show Ticket Booth and receive $5 off daily general admission or $10 off the weekend pass (not valid with other discounted offers).
DAN has lots to share with you in 2012, so make a plan to stop by the DAN Booth (#502) and:
- Renew your membership
- Check out new products
- Learn about DAN’s enhanced travel insurance program
DAN is also hosting a special Friday evening event where you can meet DAN medical information specialists and trainers. You’ll get answers to your most frequently asked questions as well as learn how DAN training courses can benefit you as a recreational diver.
Finally, have you ever wanted to be a contributor to Alert Diver magazine? A member of the editorial staff will be at the show to hear your ideas and discuss potential opportunities for adding your talents to DAN’s marquee publication. All potential contributors should be prepared to share writing samples and/or a photography portfolio as well as story ideas and pitches. To book an appointment, please email Maureen Halsema or call (919) 684-2948 ext. 626.
It’s all waiting for you at Our World Underwater, so grab your DAN card, get your discount, and come enjoy the show. We’ll see you there!
| Event: | Our World Underwater |
| When: | Feb. 17-19, 2012 |
| Location: | Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Ill. (Directions) |
| DAN Booth: | 502 |
Our World Underwater Coming to Chicago Soon!
Our World Underwater is the Midwest’s largest consumer dive show, featuring speakers and presentations, equipment exhibitors, travel destinations, local dive spots, Great Lakes charter operators, and more.
For more details go to the Our World Underwater website.
Our World Underwater Consumer Dive Show
From February 17-19, 2012, the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois will be hosting the annual Our World Underwater consumer dive show. Over the course of the weekend, attendees can participate in workshops and seminars along with viewing exhibits and presentations from various dive industry stakeholders. Some examples include training classes from Diver’s Alert Network, Professional Scuba Inspectors, Diveheart, and the Aggressor/Dancer fleet of liveaboards. There are presentations on topics ranging from historic shipwreck research, photography and videography techniques and tips, to marine life. Read more
Are You Concerned About the Marine Environment?
Are you concerned about the marine environment, our oceans and conservation of the underwater world? If so, there s a growing movement started by PADI’s Project AWARE (Aquatic World Awareness Responsibility and Education) that is a growing movement of divers and snorkelers who are working to protect the marine environment-one dive at a time. 
Two major issues have been at the forefront of Project AWARE’s efforts lately, that of protecting sharks and marine debris. Since we usually don’t have many sharks in our lakes and quarries in Wisconsin, we can certainly make a difference when it comes to marine debris and trash under water. One of the great things about being a certified diver is that we see the effects of trash underwater….either on a warm water trip or in our local lakes and quarries. Seeing trash is not one of the things for which we got certified. We want to see healthy reefs, clean water and abundant marine life, no matter the location.
You can join in the efforts to help the marine environment by signing up with Project AWARE on their website’s: Action Zone. Here you can find events in which to participate, track your own efforts to assist with marine debris removal, and recruit other divers to help in efforts to help the aquatic world.
So take a moment today to register for the Project AWARE Action Zone today, and let us know what you are doing…we’d love to post your efforts on our blog!
We’re going to be planning Project AWARE events this coming spring and summer and will be asking for help in this important effort. Stay tuned to our blog and our website for details.
West Michigan Underwater Preserve would protect 150 miles of shore waters
Via Scoop.it – ScubaDiving
West Michigan Underwater Preserve would protect 150 miles of shore watersHollandSentinel.comCONTRIBUTED By ANNETTE MANWELL If the proposed West Michigan Underwater Preserve is approved, more than 150 miles of southern Lake Michigan shore waters…
Via www.hollandsentinel.com
GoPro Hero2 – Scuba Diver Info
Via Scoop.it – Scuba Diving Equipment
Scuba Diver InfoGoPro Hero2Scuba Diver InfoAnd it creates the impression that as of now, for a company that is into extreme sports and makes a terrific product (AND advertises its housing for underwater use), GoPro is not very familiar with scuba.
Via www.scubadiverinfo.com
Civil War shipwreck will become Florida’s next underwater preserve
Via Scoop.it – Scuba Dive Travel
The wreck of a vessel that served in the Union navy during the Civil War is slated to become Florida’s 12th underwater preserve, Tampa Bay (RT @EuroTravelGeek: Civil War shipwreck will become Florida’s next underwater preserve: Filed under: History,…
Via www.gadling.com
U.S. News – Diver finds woman’s 1923 class ring, tracks down her grandson
Via Scoop.it – ScubaDiving
Over nearly two decades of scuba diving, Reed Banjanin had come across several long-forgotten trinkets in the sand and silt, but none was more meaningful than one of his most recent discoveries: Louise Hearst’s 1923 class ring.
Via usnews.msnbc.msn.com
How a venomous cone snail catches and kills fish – BBC News
Via Scoop.it – Coral Reef Ecology
BBC NewsHow a venomous cone snail catches and kills fish. There are more than 640 different species of the predatory cone snail, or Conus, globally, most of which live in the tropics around coral reefs.
Via www.bbc.co.uk
