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NAUI Insurance Offered
NAUI Worldwide has announced its new Worldwide Dive & Travel Insurance program, a comprehensive program that provides emergency medical and dive accident insurance (including hyperbaric chamber treatment and medical expenses), and travel assistance coverage to certified divers, dive professionals and students enrolled in NAUI courses around the world.
NAUI Worldwide Dive & Travel Insurance plans also offer comprehensive coverage for medical expenses for treatment of non-dive related accidents and medical emergencies that occur away from home; emergency evacuation benefits; disability, accidental death or dismemberment; dive vacation interruption or cancellation; lost diving equipment; 24-hour emergency hotline services and more.
With three affordable plans to choose from, you and your family members can travel and dive with the confidence of knowing you have NAUI quality coverage, and unlike other programs, there’s no need to join a member group to be eligible. Simply sign up for the plan you want and enjoy the comfort of knowing you have insurance coverage right away. To select the plan that’s best for you, compare program details, and apply online, click the “Dive & Travel Insurance” link at www.naui.org.
NAUI Worldwide is the oldest, second-largest certifying organization in the world, and offers a full range of training programs from Skin Diver through Instructor Course Director, with dozens of specialty courses including Nitrox and Technical diving. For further information on NAUI affiliated stores, resorts, and certified diving instruction, call 813-628-6284 or visit www.naui.org.
OEX Opens Mission Bay Location
OEX in La Jolla Shores opened a second location on June 4th at Mission Bay. The new location is at 1617 Quivira Road at Mariner’s Basin, close to the Hyatt Islandia hotel. Just a few of the lines carried include Sherwood, Genesis, Akona, Mares, Dacor, and Sporasub.
Connected with the OEX store chain, at the Mission Bay location, are two fast dive-charter boats, the Divebliss and Boy’n Sea. OEX Mission Bay is a full-service dive shop carrying brand-name gear for sale and rental, along with air fills. Nitrox will be available soon. There’s more information at their website at www.oeexpress.com or call 619-224-6195.
Nick Icorn To Receive Reaching Out Award
DEMA (Diving Equipment Marketing Association) has announced that dive industry pioneer Nick Icorn will be honored at the 17th Annual DEMA Reaching Out Awards.
One of the leading proponents of recreational diving, Nick Icorn has been instrumental in the advancement of the industry’s training programs and equipment, developing the Basic Scuba Instructional Standards, Scuba Instructor Training Standards and Scuba Equipment Standards.
With a career that spans nearly sixty years, Nick was part of the first formal Underwater Instructors Course. A certified diving instructor with the LAC, NASDS, NAUI, PADI, SSI and YMCA, in 1970, he became PADI’s first and only Executive Director increasing their instructor base from 234 to over 12,000 worldwide. While at PADI, Nick wrote a number of manuals for the industry including the first “Standards and Procedures Manual,” “The Basic Scuba Course,” a comprehensive training manual for basic certification, the “Course Directors Manual,” for instructor training, and the most important manual “Open-Water Training,” which marked the beginning of open-water training in the U.S. It was also during this time that Nick founded the National Scuba Training Council (NSTC), in response to attacks against instructor agencies in California and as a way to show agency unification and control nationwide over membership.
After leaving PADI, Nick went on to hold the positions of Vice President and Chief Engineer at a number of companies including U.S. Cavalero Corp. and Ocean Dynamics Intl. A member of the NAUI Hall of Honor and NOGI Award recipient, Nick has served on the Board of Directors of many companies including PADI, the Academy of Underwater Arts and Science (NOGI) and the Historical Diving Society USA. He has also amassed an unprecedented collection of historical dive equipment. In 1995 Nick Icorn was presented with the California Scuba Service Award by California Diving News.
DEMA, the Diving Equipment & Marketing Association, is an international organization dedicated to the promotion and growth of the recreational scuba diving and snorkeling industry. With more than 1,200 members, this non-profit, global organization promotes scuba diving through many initiatives including consumer awareness programs, media campaigns and sponsorship of the DEMA Show, a trade event open only to companies doing business in the scuba diving, action water sports and adventure/dive travel industries. DEMA Show 2005 will take place October 4-7, 2005 in Las Vegas, NV. The Reaching Out award will take place at that convention. For more information on DEMA Show 2005, visit www.demashow.com. For more information on DEMA, call 858-616-6408 or visit www.dema.org.
LAUPS Photo Competition
The Los Angeles Underwater Photo Society is pleased to announce that the 43rd annual International Competition is open for entries. Photographers will compete for outstanding prizes, including live-aboard and land-based dive vacations, diving equipment, and photo gear. This year, for the first time, the competition will be accepting digital files in addition to prints, slides, and video. Entry categories include macro, wide angle, West Coast cold water, marine related, creative freestyle, raw (unedited) video and open video. Please refer to the entry form for details on entry formats and categories.
Last year’s competition drew entries from 17 countries and 23 states. Deadline for entries is September 23, 2005. Rules and entry form are available online at www.laups.org
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