THE UNDERSEA ® JOURNAL KEEPING PADI PROFESSIONALS INFORMED, INSPIRED AND INVOLVED SINCE 1967 THIRD QUARTER 2011 PROJECT AWARE RELAUNCH RELAUNCH AWARE PROJECT » NEW REBREATHER COURSES COURSES NEW REBREATHER » ECO-TOURISM TRAVEL TRAVEL ECO-TOURISM » BUSINESS: GOING GREEN BUSINESS: THIRD JOIN THE QUARTER MOVEMENT 2011 CONTENTSTHE UNDERSEA JOURNAL THIRD QUARTER 2011 Features Departments 46l LIVING SEAS: PROJECT 6 l In the Field AWARE PADI Worldwide President Protecting Our Ocean and COO Drew Richard- Planet One Dive at a son calls on PADI Members Time to join Project AWARE in its BY JENNY MILLER GARMENDIA e"orts to force meaningful pol- Project AWARE has launched icy change that will guarantee its new logo, mission and the future health of the plan- vision – and calls on you to et’s oceans. help address critical issues facing the world’s oceans: 11 l PADI Life shark conservation and A look at DEMA Show 2011. marine debris. 83 l Training Bulletin 54 l BUSINESS OF DIVING Why Conservation? 92 l RISK MANAGEMENT BY MEGAN DENNY Training Scuba Make your business more Divers: A Fatality and profitable by using eco- Risk Analysis friendly ideas that reduce 46 BY JOHN KINSELLA your costs and help the !e third part in our series environment. analyzing the findings in 64 Dr. Drew Richardson’s paper 62 l TRAINING Rebreather Training Scuba Divers: A Fatal- Launch ity and Risk Analysis. !is issue, BY KARL SHREEVES we examine fatalities that !e PADI organization occurred outside PADI-sanc- introduces new courses this tioned training programs and quarter: PADI Rebreather those that involved PADI div- Diver, Advanced Rebreather ing professionals. Diver and Tec CCR Diver. 97 l Quality Management 74 l TRAVEL Giving Back Through Voluntourism 98 l Dive Industry News BY BROOKE MORTON PADI CEO Brian Cronin says Many dive centers benefit replacing incandescent light- from the help o"ered by vol- bulbs with LEDs is a small step unteer eco-tourists. PADI that pays o" in huge dividends Members share ocean con- for the environment. servation projects that can be conducted on your next This product is group dive travel vacation. from sustainably managedforests and controlled Cover By Brett Evans sources. !e Undersea Journal (ISSN 1740-1930) (USPS 025-042) is published quarterly by PADI Americas, Inc., 30151 Tomas, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 USA. Cost per issue $12.00 US. Periodicals postage paid at Trabuco Canyon and additional entry o!ce. !e Undersea Journal is the o!cial publication of PADI Worldwide and is produced in association with Bonnier Enthusiast Group. For customer service and back issues, please call 800 729 7234 (US and Canada) or +1 949 729 7234, ext. 2495. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to !e Undersea Journal, PADI Customer Service Department, 30151 Tomas, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688-2125 USA. GALLI DANCA KATY PADI; COURTESY TOP: FROM 4 T H E UNDERSEA JOURNAL THIRDQUA RTE R 2011 E DIT O R ’S DESK the European Commission to strengthen The New Project AWARE its !nning ban, and together, we’ll look to close regulatory loopholes in the areas Since you’re an avid diver, I’m sure you know that water that matter most. At the grassroots level, covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Nor get out the word – sign the shark peti- tion at the Project AWARE website, don’t is it news to you that the ocean contains some of the buy shark !n products in particular, and most productive and most important ecosystems we shark products in general. have, and that without them, the global environment Project AWARE is also zeroing in on the battle against marine debris beyond would collapse. cleanups. In more than 100 countries, this puts divers on the front lines. We are a di"erence. Armed with the knowledge the ones collecting debris underwater as that the Chilean seabass is actually the well as in the water or near the water, iden- Patagonian tooth!sh – an overexploited tifying the trouble spots and gathering !shery – for example, a diver who is also data so we can !nd solutions, support the a chef can post in a culinary forum and e"orts of local leaders to improve compre- literally in$uence thousands to choose hensive waste management and help at a di"erent seafood. Most people care the regional and international level. enough to choose di"erently – they just As a PADI Member, you’re already one need to know there’s an important rea- of thousands of divers in the battle for son to do so. the ocean’s future – our future. You’re Project AWARE Foundation has also one of the leaders, positioned to a new vision, mission and goals [see enlarge our numbers by taking students What many people don’t know – page 51] along with a new focus on two and divers to projectaware.org (on your including divers – is that as important major areas – sharks in peril and marine smartphone, tablet or laptop) to show as this ecosystem is, less than one percent debris. Project AWARE also has a new them how they can stay informed, stay has legal protection – only a small por- logo representing its commitment to an involved and make a di"erence. tion of which is fully protected through unprecedented movement that unites you, A single voice gets lost in the roar, but no-take zones. We can’t live without the me and millions of other divers to take millions shouting together rise above it. aquatic world, yet 99 percent of it is rela- action to in$uence environmental policies A single di"erent choice doesn’t a"ect tively open to pollution, over!shing and at local and international levels. Together, corporate policy, but the same choice by other destructive practices. Because peo- divers are changing the world – making millions forces it, willing or not. #at’s ple don’t know about the peril and the it better by working to protect the oceans what Project AWARE’s new emphasis is issues, destructive practices continue in that we all depend upon, and that future all about – being heard and making dif- some places unabated. generations will depend upon. ferent choices to keep the aquatic world If we were beyond the point of no #ere are two critical ocean conserva- vibrant and healthy. return, there’d be no reason to write tion issues before us right now: sharks in this editorial. #ankfully, we’re not. As peril, and marine debris. Project AWARE the ocean struggles for its life – our life is taking a stand on both of these. – we’re seeing new forces emerge on its Many of the world’s shark species are Good luck and good diving, behalf. #e most powerful of these is on the brink of extinction. Like most Drew Richardson Ed.D. you. apex predators, most shark species grow Publisher & Editor-in-Chief #e information age is bringing a revo- slowly, mature late and produce few lution to social change. It’s uniting people young, which makes them particularly in common causes around the world, vulnerable to !shing pressure. Over!sh- and arming them with information and ing, shark !nning and bycatch continue the means to distribute it. For the !rst to decimate shark species. Recently, time in history, individual voices make AWARE divers helped champion a call for 6 T H E U N D ERS EAJOU RNA L THIRDQUARTER 2011 PADI[2] ON TOUR [1] PADI RUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION CENTRE 10-YEAR PADI Executives are in the !eld and on tour. From ANNIVERSARY Shown here are PADI Europe, Mid- New Jersey, USA, to Russia, PADI Executives from dle East and Africa Limited, Vice President Sales around the globe are on tour attending Tec Xplor events and Marketing, Douglas Nash and Director and owner, PADI Russian Distribution Centre, Irina and trade shows, visiting with PADI Dive Centers and Beresneva, with the Bristol Blue Glass Vase pre- Resorts and staying connected in the !eld. sented to the Russian Distribution Centre by PADI Europe, Middle East and Africa Limited on the [1] occasion of the centre’s tenth anniversary servic- ing PADI Members in the Russian Federation. [2] PADI TEC XPLOR DAYS, NEW JERSEY, USA Fol- [3] lowing Beneath the Sea, PADI TecRec staff hosted a full-day event filled with seminars covering side- mount, rebreathers, future PADI course offerings and appearances by some of the biggest names in the tec industry. Pictured [L-R]: PADI Course Direc- tor and TecRec Instructor Trainer, Jeff Loflin, PADI Technical Field Consultant, Jill Heinerth, and PADI Worldwide President and COO, Drew Richardson. All three presented at the Tec Xplor event. [3] BRASIL DIVE FESTIVAL This past April, PADI Latin America hosted the tenth annual PADI Dive [2] Festival in Sao Paulo, Brasil. The festival is the largest in South and Central America, and repre- sentatives from PADI Dive Centers and Resorts, travel agencies, manufacturers and more par- ticipated in and attended this successful event. Pictured outside the show [L-R]: PADI Americas Vice President Operations, Dana Stewart, PADI Americas Training Consultant, Karin Boss, PADI Americas Vice President Training & Customer Service, James Morgan. 1-4: COURTESY DOUGLAS NASH; MICHAEL A. HYDUK; KRISTIN VALETTE; COURTESY PADI WORLDWIDE PADI COURTESY VALETTE; KRISTIN HYDUK; A. MICHAEL NASH; DOUGLAS COURTESY 1-4: [4] TECREC INSTRUCTOR TRAINER CROSSOVERS [4] On 16 March, the PADI organization completed the first orientation program for Instructor Trainers (IT) in the PADI TecRec system. Four experienced ITs from other agencies attended the event, which was conducted in the offices of PADI Asia Pacific in Sydney. Shown here are the staff and newly qual- ified PADI TecRec ITs.