DAN Asia-Pacific News
UPCOMING ASIA-PACIFIC DIVE SHOWS
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
Underwater Festival (2-11 September 2011)
Get ready for the 5th Underwater Festival - The Australasia Challenge.
With 10 days to shoot, the 2011 Underwater Festival breaks new ground in underwater shootout competitions. UF11 will feature a photo and video shootout competition that happens simultaneously all over Australasia. Plus there are over $150,000 prizes on offer and 20 categories to compete in.
The event encompasses 25 countries spanning both hemispheres. Every dive site you can imagine will be a shootout locality and every dive centre, liveaboard, dive resort in the area will be part of this new kind of shootout. You can dive your local favourite spots, go out with your dive club or shore dive with your buddy - or travel and join in one of the many Underwater Festival Fringe Events that will be happening all over Australasia.
For more information visit www.underwaterfestival.org.
Oceania Dive Expo (30 September - 2nd October 2011)
The inaugural Oceania Dive Expo will take place at the RNA Showgrounds in Sydney, Australia. The water sports equipment trade and consumer show will be held in conjunction with the annual Underwater Festival.
ODEX will showcase products and services relating to water sports and underwater recreational activities such as scuba, snorkelling, spear fishing as well as free and technical diving. Commercial equipment and businesses involved in filming, photography, military, emergency, and scientific projects will also be represented at the Expo.
Highlights of this event will include product launches, workshops, seminars, guest speakers, a charity silent auction and associated social events.
For more information regarding this 2011 event visit www.oceaniadiveexpo.com.
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.
May - August 2010 Issue of Alert Diver
The May - August Issue of Alert Diver, the region's only dive health and safety magazine, is an electronic edition and was emailed to Members on the 1st September. If your copy has not arrived 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.