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Hello ADPA Members, the Colder, Shorter Days of Fall Bring Operations Topics Oct 2020 #19 The News and Views of the Association of Dive Program Administrators Hello ADPA members, The colder, shorter days of fall bring operations topics. Please review the flu season and an increased the Symposium and Training Week prevalence of the common updates in the pages that follow. cold. These maladies confound Registration for the Symposium COVID-19 symptom recognition, closed on 20 October; please further increasing uncertainty for contact Halle Minshall at those feeling ill as the pandemic [email protected] if you are drags on. Our teams and not registered yet, but still wish to institutions must continue to follow attend. Also, remember to email and support science-based your thirty-second (max) Organizational Update recommendations and help our communities Video and photos for ADPA Day in the Life wade through this epoch. This charge is slideshow to [email protected] by imperative to maintain our health and that of 1 November. Lastly, please use this link to send our family, friends, and co-workers. Please your organization's statistics to Jake Emmert; continue to ensure that those you affect, this deadline is also 1 November. We compare especially your team members at work, adhere the stats from the past year and share them to the three W’s: wear your mask, watch your during the Symposium. distance, and wash your hands. In closing, I would be remiss if not continuing my As is customary, we dedicate this year’s final unremitting call to get and remain involved with edition of the Bottom Times newsletter to next your Association. The Communications month’s Symposium and Training Week Committee always seeks Bottom Times events. Your Symposium and Training Day contributions, so contact a committee member Committees, with support of the Board, have if you have a technique or process to share in assembled a terrific suite of timely Dive Hacks or wish to showcase your program in offerings. This year’s presentations include Organizational Spotlight. information and discussion around COVID-19, guidance on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Stay well and dive safe, decision on the Houston Aquarium (Landry’s) case, and a myriad of equipment and dive 1 Page Oct 2020 #19 Register Here for the Symposium! Register Here for Training Week! Virtual Symposium & Training Week The last eight months have been unlike anything any of us have ever seen before--the changes in our facilities and operations due to COVID-19 could never have been anticipated, and it’s at this time that we need each other more than ever before. For these reasons, we have opted to continue to host our annual Symposium, a time of collaboration and community. We hope to replicate the experience from an in-person Symposium this year with our virtual Symposium and Training Week. We have been hard at work to bring you interesting and relevant content that is supremely affordable. There will be different and new challenges to work through to make this year’s events a success, but we look forward to presentations on a wide range of topics. 2 Page Oct 2020 #19 Annual Dive Statistics! Great opportunity to support your association, and please remember to only submit one entry per institution. Deadline is November 1st along with Day in the Life and Organizational Update Video! Form to submit annual statistics for the Symposium is now live! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiSmseLCxc5wAhaJ9VNRoq9ThbQaPCynpVT- Y6xgH8CuRYiw/viewform Organizational Update Videos As we introduce our first Virtual Symposium, we are excited to announce a new opportunity for you to share a small piece of your program with us. We will miss seeing everyone in person this year but hope this brings a smile to everyone. In lieu of a traditional ‘Organizational Update’ where we typically go around the room and each attendee shares information about their facility, we are providing the option to send in a 30 second or shorter video clip. In the video, we would like you to creatively say ‘Hello’ while sharing your facility’s 2020 statistics. We encourage you to be imaginative and show us your best! This is a unique opportunity to share your dive program with the ADPA, and make it fun. Anyone who wants to opt out of sending in a video will have their organizational statistics read aloud by a Symposium facilitator after the compilation video has been shown. Send videos to the following: [email protected] Subject: (your facility name) Message Body: (your name) Attachment: 1- 30 second or shorter video from each facility, where you introduce: 1) Facility Name 2) Dive Officers 3) Total number of diver staff and volunteers 4) Total number of dives Please submit videos no later than November 1st! Videos submitted after might not be included. If you have any issues sending the video due to file size contact [email protected] for a direct upload link. Holly Bourbon presenting Perry Hampton, one of the ADPA original Founders, with the 25th Anniversary plaque at Calvert Marine Museum on 10/16/2020. 3 Page Oct 2020 #19 Important Dates: November 1st: “ADPA Day in the Life’” Photos due to: [email protected] “Organizational Update” Videos due to: [email protected] “Annual Dive Statistics Survey” due to: [email protected] November 7th: ADPA Annual Board Meeting 11:00am – 2:00pm CST: Executive Session (closed). For GoToWebinar link information, 3:00pm – 5:00pm CST: Open Session. [email protected] November 9th: Training Week begins (see schedule for full details) November 10th: Symposium 10:00am - 5:30pm CST November 11-13th: Training Week Continues Symposium Presentation Topics Innovation and Evolution: Using Mini Scuba Unit and Lost in the Murk: Using Acoustic Receivers in Low- Developing Extraction Protocols in our Amazon River Visibility Waters to Recover Monitoring Devices Forest Exhibit The Process of Replacing 250 Wetsuits: Box Jellyfish During a Pandemic and What to do with the Old Ones The Final Verdicts, Osha vs Landry’s AAUS Update Zoo and Aquarium Dive Programs: COVID 19 Updates and Discussions Current Trends and Insights Corporate Partner Presentations Round Table Discussions Requirements – computer with functional webcam and microphone, set of headphones. Good Wi-Fi accessibility is a plus. Any Symposium attendee who would like to practice logging in and accessing the platform to confirm that their system meets requirements and ensure flawless entrance to the Symposium and Training Week can pop into a practice session for 15 minutes at any of the following times: • Monday, November 2nd from 2:30 - 4:00 EST • Wednesday, November 4th from 10:30 - 12:00 EST 4 Page Oct 2020 #19 • Friday, November 6th from 12:30 – 2:00 EST Virtual Training Week Schedule and Options Central Tue - Nov Time Mon - Nov 9 10 Wed - Nov 11 Thu - Nov 12 Fri - Nov 13 AM PSI/PCI "How To" Sci Diving 10:00 AM Refresher* Exemption Q&A: DPiC Vol Motivation and Admin/DSO Staff Level 11:30 AM Rescue X Symposium Retention Safety Drills Staff Development All Day PM Q&A: FFM and Q&A: DSO Communication 1:00 PM Workshop Panel Q&A: BOD Systems Q&A: Zoo and Aquarium Programmatic Level 2:30 PM Gear Configuration Changes Due to COVID *PSI/PCI Refresher participants will be contacted by instructor Paul Boissinot on registration instructions (will require additional payment). 5 Page Oct 2020 #19 Organizational Spotlight: By Chad Burtrum, Allison Shafer and Lauren Larese Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, LA About the Aquarium Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is located on the banks of the Mississippi River, right on the edge of New Orleans’ historic French Quarter. The Aquarium of the Americas is a part of the Audubon Nature Institute, a nonprofit organization overseeing ten New Orleans museums and parks dedicated to nature. The Institute also includes the Audubon Zoo, Audubon Insectarium, and the expansive Audubon Park among its member attractions. The Aquarium opened its doors on Labor Day in not survived. Returning stronger than before, 1990 and has been ranked as a must-see New the Aquarium was able to reopen on May 26th, Orleans destination ever since. As its name 2006, and has since revamped its Gulf of Mexico implies, the Aquarium specializes in showcasing exhibit to highlight life below an oil rig platform. aquatic life from regions throughout North and On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon South America with over 3,600 animals from 250 drilling rig exploded in the Gulf and created one species represented. Noteworthy exhibits of the largest environmental disasters in include the freshwater Amazon Rainforest and American history. The Aquarium was heavily Mississippi River galleries, a 132,000-gallon involved in rehabilitating affected animals during Caribbean reef tank, a 400,000-gallon Gulf of this tragic event. Mexico exhibit, and sea otters. Although not technically an American species, the Aquarium is Dive Program also home to a very popular colony of Before the pandemic, the Aquarium of the endangered African penguins. Americas had 95 active divers (with some staff divers located at other Audubon Nature Institute The Aquarium of the Americas has seen its share facilities), but COVID-19 has reduced the current of natural and manmade disasters from its number of divers. Since reopening, the location on the dynamic Gulf Coast. On August Aquarium is down to just 15 dedicated volunteer 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New and 13 staff divers across three campuses. Prior Orleans causing massive flooding throughout to COVID-19, Audubon divers averaged about most of the city. While the Aquarium sits on high 1,400 dives per year. This year the Aquarium has ground and survived the initial hurricane, the had to switch to a reduced dive schedule of only ensuing power outages left staff members essential commercial dives and is on track to unable to fully operate its life support systems conduct about half of its pre-pandemic dive on backup generators alone.
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