Are you about to do your IDC? Are you searching for your first job? Come and join the Kos Divers family, a fantastic place to start your career with great working conditions, excellent experience with people of all ages and abilities, the opportunity to gain certifications and continue your diving education. Earn a good living and live on a beautiful Greek Island!!!! If your interested tell us why you want to join our professional dive company. Email Matt Bradbury ([email protected]) or contact KOS DIVERS ([email protected])

Divemaster trainee wanted for summer season 2014. E mail us now!

Book your course online and save money. Availability of these offers is limited so book online now! 

Do you want to stay warm and dry on a dive? In the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you’ll learn how to use a dry suit and that keeps you warm even in very cold water! The Padi Dry Suit Diver course will open up a whole new world of diving to you. Many of the waters around the oceans are better dove in a drysuit. These waters have an abundance of marine life waiting to be seen and photographed, dry suits are also being used in tropical waters during the cooler months. (more)

September 29th 2013, La Réunion

DAN Europe cordially invites you to the 9th DAN Divers Day, a recreational diving medicine symposium, created for the whole diving community and open to anyone who is interested in diving safety.

Renowned scientists and doctors from all over the world will meet to talk about diving medicine and safety. During this special day, you will have the chance to:

Learn more about Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Get useful tips on how to avoid dive accidents
Get to know more about International DAN projects promoting dive safety

Participation is free of charge. As there are a limited numer of seats available, we recommend that you register online.

The PADI organization recommends that when you are introducing nondivers to scuba diving, you use the program designed for this purpose, the PADI Discover Scuba® Diving program, with its standards and related materials. The program is flexible and can be used both with experiences resulting in an open water dive, and those offered only in confined water, without an open water dive. Now, more than ever, using the Discover Scuba Diving program is beneficial to both participants and PADI Members alike, based on the release of the new Discover Scuba Diving Participant Guide and related ties to the Open Water Diver Online Preview, ScubaEarth™, Discover Scuba Diving eCards, etc., as you’ve read in the Training Bulletin and The Undersea Journal.

Discover Scuba Diving
However, the PADI organization understands that some PADI Members offer their own pool-only scuba experiences to nondivers, commonly referred to as “try dives,” that are not intended to be the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program. The PADI Retail and Resort Association Standards address this. Effective immediately, these standards have changed to reflect who may conduct these programs (PADI and non-PADI Divemasters, Assistant Instructors and Instructors), and that such programs must be conducted in pools, in water shallow enough in which to stand. The standards also require that if you offer such programs, you must clearly separate them from PADI, and PADI Discover Scuba Diving.

Change to Retail/Resort standards:

7. Ensure PADI and non-PADI certification courses are conducted by a certified dive instructor in current teaching status. PADI Instructors, Assistant Instructors and Divemasters, as well as non-PADI dive professionals (current instructors, assistant instructors or dive masters from other training organizations) may conduct pool-only try dive experiences in swimming pools in water shallow enough in which to stand. As these are not PADI Discover Scuba Diving programs, PADI Discover Scuba Diving standards and materials are not to be used and the experiences are not to be advertised as “PADI” experiences or identified as “Discover Scuba Diving” or “DSD”.

Change to Retail/Resort Five Star standards:

3. Exclusively issue and advertise only PADI certifications for recreational diver courses and introductory programs. Exceptions may include specialty certifications issued for training activities outside the PADI System of diver education, such as technical diving (PADI Tec Rec Courses are within the PADI system). Members must receive prior written approval from their PADI Office to offer these courses or programs.

Only the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program or a PADI Member’s self-authored pool demonstrations, also known as ‘try dive’ experiences, in swimming pools in depths shallow enough in which to stand, may be conducted at a PADI 5 Star facility. As these are not PADI Discover Scuba Diving programs, PADI Discover Scuba Diving standards and materials are not to be used and the experiences are not to be advertised as “PADI” experiences or identified as “Discover Scuba Diving” or “DSD”.

As most professional liability insurance policies require the use of a liability release and medical statement as a condition of coverage, the Try Diving Pool Event release (see PADI Pros’ Site, Forms and Applications, Statement of Risks – Liability Releases) may be used for that purpose. While this document is sufficient for PADI-endorsed professional liability policies (of course, all other policy terms and conditions will apply), if you carry professional liability insurance from other sources, it’s important to confirm with your insurance underwriter that this document will meet the underwriter’s requirements. Additionally, you may choose to use your store logo when creating administrative documents or promoting “try dive” programs, but not PADI trademarks or logos, as these are not PADI programs and should not be presented as such.

First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries represents entry-level training designed to educate the general diving (and interested non-diving) public to identify and recognise injuries caused by hazardous marine life and to provide first aid.

Course Objective
The objectives of this course are to train and educate the general diving public and interested non-divers in the first aid techniques for a suspected hazardous marine life injury. In addition, this course will introduce divers to the identification of potentially hazardous marine life and how to avoid hazardous marine life injuries. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
Identify the four types of hazardous marine life injuries.
Name at least five venomous marine animals.
List five common warning signs of an envenomation.
Describe the appropriate first aid procedure for managing a venomous marine animal injury.
Name at least three aquatic animals that may bite a diver.
List two common warning signs of marine animal bite.
Describe the appropriate first aid procedure for managing a bite from a marine animal.
Name at least three marine animals that may cause irritations to the diver.
List at least four common warning signs of irritations.
Describe the appropriate first aid procedure for managing brushes with aquatic life.
Identify two common types of seafood poisonings.
Name at least three types of fish that can cause seafood poisoning.
List three common warning signs of seafood poisoning.
State the reason why evaluation by a medical professional is necessary when seafood poisoning is suspected.
Describe the appropriate first aid procedures for managing suspected seafood poisoning.
Perform a scene safety assessment.
List the steps in performing a scene safety assessment.
Assess the Airway, Breathing and Circulation (ABCs) of an injured diver.
Demonstrate a caring attitude towards a diver who becomes ill or injured.
Establish and maintain the Airway and Breathing (perform Rescue Breathing) for an injured diver.
Describe the importance of the use of supplemental oxygen as a first aid measure for injured divers.
Demonstrate the techniques for controlling bleeding including direct pressure, elevation and the use of pressure dressings and pressure points.
Locate and demonstrate the use of pressure points to control external bleeding.
Apply dressings and bandages to manage wounds caused by hazardous marine life.
Demonstrate an ongoing assessment and manage shock.
Demonstrate the pressure immobilisation technique.
List the components of an Emergency Assistance Plan.
Describe at least five techniques or guidelines that minimize the risk of injury from marine animals.
The nature and scope of this course is limited to training divers and interested non-divers such as boat captains, water enthusiasts and non-diving family members to identify potential hazardous marine life; to provide first aid for a hazardous marine animal injury; and to prevent injuries caused by hazardous marine life. This course does not provide training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or scuba diving rescue. The training exercises of this course presuppose that the ill or injured diver has already been brought to shore or is aboard the boat.