DAN Asia-Pacific News
UPCOMING ASIA-PACIFIC DIVE SHOWS
Dive Resort & Travel Expo 2010 (16-18 July)
DRT SHOW 2010 will be held at the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. DRT Show is an international Diving and Travel Show and the organiser anticipates it will become the hottest and largest Asian Region Event for the diving, water sport, resort and travel industries.
DRT SHOW is targeting 30 thousand consumers and hundreds of dive and resort operators from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Palau, Maldives, Australia, Italy, German, France, and USA.
For more information, please visit website: www.divingandresorttravelexpo.com
Malaysia International Dive Expo - MIDE 2010
(July 30th - 1st August)
The biggest Dive Show in Malaysia will be back for it’s 5th year in Kuala Lumpur at the Putra World Trade Center (PWTC). With over 150 exhibitors, MIDE is the right combination of great crowd, exhibitors, products, and atmosphere.
For more information visit: www.mide.com.my/2010/
DAN Asia-Pacific Announces MIDE Courses
DAN will conduct the following courses at MIDE:
1. On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers - Provider
2. On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers - Instructor
3. First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries (HMLI) - Instructor
4. Oxygen Instructor Update
5. Diving Medicine for Divers - Part 1: ** BRAND NEW DAN AP COURSE **
For more information regarding each of the courses CLICK HERE.
Get your booking in early as places for each course are limited.
OzTek 2011 (12-13 March 2011)
Continuing to receive high praise since its inception in 1999 and now widely acclaimed as one of the world’s most dynamic diving events, the seventh Australasian Diving Technologies Conference and Exhibition - OZTeK’11 – will take place over the weekend of the 12th – 13th March 2011, at Australian Technology Park, in Sydney, Australia.
Having firmly established its credentials as an internationally significant diving event - one that remains focussed on the underwater adventures that new technology and techniques make possible - OZTeK‘11 will again feature one of the world’s largest gatherings of internationally renowned speakers and presenters in their respective fields of diving expertise.
For more information, please visit www.diveoztek.com.au
WANTED
DAN wants to hear from anyone who has done, or believes they have done, a DAN course with Jon Mathers (Top Dive) and whether or not they received a certificate for the training. Please contact John Lippmann on 03-9886 9166 or email: johnl@danasiapacific.org.
DAN's Jellyfish Investigation
As mentioned in the last few issues of Deeper with DAN and Alert Diver, there has been an increase in reported serious jellyfish stings in Thailand, and possibly elsewhere in Asia. Since mentioning our jellyfish investigation we have received several great photos of jellyfish, some being dangerous species found in Thailand and the Philippines. DAN AP encourages any underwater photographers in Asia, especially Thailand, to photograph any jellyfish they see on a dive and send a copy of the photo to us. Please be sure to document as precisely as possible the locations of each photo. Your assistance will enable us to increase our understanding, to better catalogue the potentially dangerous species present in parts of our region and help in establishing appropriate prevention and management strategies.
We have produced a large poster with images of some potentially deadly jellyfish and useful first aid and prevention advice. We have already begun to distribute these in Thailand and plan to make them available elsewhere in the Region.
CLICK HERE to download a copy of this poster.
Deeper with DAN ... Issue 11 is Now Available
Issue 11 of our new e-newsletter, Deeper with DAN, was emailed to Members on the 16th February. If you have not received the e-newsletter in your inbox, please send an email to marketing@danasiapacific.org with your DAN AP Member Number and we will forward you a copy.
DAN AP Members: Register Your Information on our Emergency Medical Database (EMD)
Our EMD provides an optional, additional Membership benefit, at no cost, to enable Member's to store their important medical information. As your dive safety organisation, our new EMD was designed to further assist Members in the event of an accident.
If you are yet to regsiter do so today!
Click here for more information and to register your own Medical Information.
Current News
For a break down of all the latest news from DAN Asia-Pacific, Click here.
Deeper Into Diving (A Must Read for Technical Divers!)
Read about the current edition of Deeper Into Diving.
Training Courses
There are numerous courses being undertaken here at DAN AP headquarters as well as by DAN representatives operating throughout the Region. Follow the below links to view the latest schedule of DAN AP courses.
Click here for a listing of the upcoming courses run by DAN.
Click here for a listing of courses being run by DAN Instructors throughout the Region.