Scuba Education
Second Life : Virtually PADI? Or Virtually Stupid?
By Scuba Herald at September 10, 2007 | 8:38 pm | 7 Comments
So we get the whole idea of E-learning. You connect your PC, you get information about how to dive, you do your little knowledge reviews and then you arrive to the dive center ready to dive.... right? Yep, bye bye the personal contact with an experienced instructor... who needs that? No one. We are too busy... we want things fast and we want them now! At ScubaHerald more...
Surface Marker PADI Specialty
By Scuba Herald at August 7, 2007 | 6:29 am | 0 Comment
We’ve all seen them; when conducting courses, most of us carry this type of safety equipment to meet standards and many of us may even have sold some. Surface Marker Buoys (SMB)/safety sausages/delayed SMBs. Surface Marker Buoys serve a wide range of purposes, e.g. allowing shore cover / boat support to identify an ascending diver; alerting boat traffic to the presence more...
Do you want to become a Scuba Diving Instructor?
By Scuba Herald at August 6, 2007 | 6:45 am | 0 Comment
Scuba Divers are made of many people that are tired of the usual tedious workday, followed by the nerve-racking task of driving; add all the noise pollution it instigates. That's before everything else scuba divers encounter in these fast paced times outside of scuba diving. Some scuba divers go even further by finding a career in scuba diving. Some become diving more...
DAN Tech Conference: A great opportunity
By Scuba Herald at July 19, 2007 | 6:01 am | 0 Comment
DAN keeps working in smartes ways, that's why DAN will be launching DAN Technical Diving Conference Tech Diving 2008, bringing the industry's best and brightest technical diving minds. In January 2008, the technical diving community will come together for a ground-breaking and important meeting of the minds. The two-day conference, sponsored by DAN and planned for Jan. more...
eLearning Kicks ass: PADI
By Scuba Herald at May 2, 2007 | 6:58 am | 0 Comment
Incredible. Outstanding. Impressive. Wow! – These are just some of the ways PADI retailers described the new PADI Open Water Diver Course Online after attending an eLearning Forum. Nearly 300 PADI retailers throughout the United States and Canada recently attended one of 27 eLearning Forums presented by PADI Americas. While many dive industry skeptics have critically more...
Cave Diving Officer for South-East Asia
By Scuba Herald at January 5, 2007 | 1:35 am | 0 Comment
Cave diving is a growing activity in the Asia Pacific rim. More and more caves are explored all over the region. It's a safe activity, as long as people are properly trained and follow safe standard practices. One of the major leading association worldwide, the National Association of Cave Diving (NACD), was established in 1968 for the purpose of achieving more...
