NACD 45th Annual World Seminar Oct 12, 2013

[TONY CHANEY]

As always Sandy, good news and glad to hear you are back in the water. I am having some trouble with a MCL but not bad enough to keep me out of the water. I am planning a trip to the caves in Oct. as a birthday gift. Still getting closer to my AD award. Take care and as the PR man, please do something about the rain.

 

[SandyRobinson]

Hi Tony, Thanks for the comment. Good luck with the MCL. If you are down October 12, I hope you can attend the seminar (or part of it). I still have more speakers, vendors and door prizes to announce, and we are excited about the conference. Maybe you can drag Mike and Charles down here too

I will work on the rain. It has been unbelievable what we have gotten in So Ga which flows south. At least the aquifers are getting recharged but I feel for all the cave country dive shops who are affected by it.

 

[TONY CHANEY]

Same here for the dive shops. It never cease to amaze me that the professional dedication that these shop owners display and what they go thru to provide us a great service. As far as I know, Charles does not dive anymore. He is heaad over heels in love with mountain biking. I hope to see you there God willing that the creek does not rise (too late for that I guess).

 

[SandyRobinson]

Reckon Charles has some gear we can buy cheap

 

[NACD]

Promoting Safe Cave Diving Through Social Media - Pete Murray is probably better known as Netdoc from Scubaboard. As the owner of Scubaboard, Pete will tell us how to get the most out of the new NACD members’ forum and provide us with additional forum information. He has been diving since 1969 and has traveled all over the world, usually as part of what has been come to be known as the Scubaboard Invasions. Pete is also a cave diver, technical diver, rebreather diver, a long time instructor, and the Regional Training Director for NASE. He has also been trained to dive the Revo and KISS GEM rebreathers. Pete resides in Key Largo with his family and cats where he also volunteers his time toward reef conservation. In addition to diving the beautiful Key Largo reefs in his back yard, Pete enjoys diving the caves whenever he gets the chance to head to north Florida.

Join us in Gainesville to listen to Pete and a number of other speakers. Information on additional speakers is yet to come. You can register at www.nacdmembers.com

Safe diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org

 

[NACD]

Are you considering sidemount or maybe you are looking for another sidemount rig? Then join us at the NACD seminar. Hollis has made a generous contribution of a SMS 50 Sidemount System. A lucky winner can take this (and maybe some other prizes) home on October 12. The SMS 50 comes with cambands, bungies, and snaps so it is ready to dive out of the box. For more information on Hollis, visit Hollis - Scuba & Technical Diving Equipment/Supplies. We appreciate Hollis being there for the NACD. Thanks guys!


To register for the seminar, visit www.nacdmembers.com.


Safe Diving,


Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org




---------- Post added August 13th, 2013 at 09:03 PM ----------

Join us at the NACD seminar and listen to David Dewberry talk about the Cozumel Project. David started diving in 1996. He quickly became addicted to diving and soon after, in 1999, became an instructor with the YMCA. A few years later he crossed over to NAUI. In 2008 he became the director of the academic dive program at Troy University in Troy, Alabama and has been leading that program ever since. During the last couple of decades he’s been diving all along the Florida and North Carolina coasts. He has also spent time diving the Caribbean waters of several islands including Cozumel.


A few years ago he was finding himself bored with diving and decided to venture into a new area. After a weekend of cavern diving, David was hooked and the addiction resurfaced. David began diving sidemount and quickly progressed through his cave training. David is currently cave and trimix certified and regularly dives the caves of Merritt’s Mill Pond in Marianna, FL, the caves of the Chipola River, and other panhandle river caves. He is also involved in some local exploration and survey projects in some of these caves.


Last year David went to Cozumel with a small group of cave divers to do some exploration and survey work in a couple of the local caves. During that trip David explored his first virgin cave passage. He has been back to Cozumel since and to date has been part of a team that has explored and surveyed over a mile of passage in Dos Coronas, bringing the total length of the system to almost 8000’. David currently lives in Goshen, AL with his dog and cats. To hear more about the Dos Coronas system, register for the seminar at [url]www.nacdmembers.com[/URL].


Safe diving,


Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org

 

[NACD]

Do you need a new computer? Or do you need a mixed gas computer? Thanks to the great guys at Shearwater Research, you have the chance to leave the upcoming NACD seminar with a new Petrel. I am sure most of you are familiar with this computer but more information can be viewed at www.shearwater.com. Thanks again to Shearwater Research for their support of the NACD.

For more information and to register for the seminar, go to www.nacdmembers.com.​

Safe diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org
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---------- Post added August 15th, 2013 at 08:46 AM ----------

If you register by mid-September, you can get a t-shirt designed by Kristi Bernot. A reminder that our presenters who will be there for you include Eric Hutcheson, Kristi Bernot, Doug Ebersole, Brian Kakuk, Pete Murray aka NetDoc, David Dewberry, and more. A sample of our prizes include a $500 Dive Rite gift certificate, a SEAC dry suit, a Hollis SMS 50 Side Mount System, and a Shearwater Petrel Computer. But you cannot listen to them or have a chance for a prize unless you register. For more information, go to www.nacdmembers.com.

Safe Diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforsafecavediving.org

 

[NACD]

Please welcome Michael Angelo Gagliardi as a speaker to the 45th annual NACD Annual Seminar. Michael Angelo sold his first painting in the St. Marks Bar in NYC’s Greenwich Village at the age of 17. Had they checked his ID, he may have chosen a different career. At the age of 35 he began scubadiving. Now at 50, he holds over 22 certifications, and paints a wetworld for us to enjoy.

MichaelAngelo has used his artistic skills in many different diving areas – from openwater to overhead, warm to cold water, shallow to deep, and local to international. Some of his accomplishments include being the expedition artist on the USS Monitor 2002 GunTurret Expedition, the lead in the 2009 Cow Springs Restoration Project, the Expedition Artist for the Cozumel Cenote Mapping and Exploration Expeditions 2011, and a volunteer diver for the North Florida Springs Bio-diversity Project as well as for various Great Lake Shipwreck surveys. He is a recipient of the Abe Davis Award,Wakulla Award, 2007 NACD Conservation Award, 2009 NSSCDS Conservation Award, Diver of the Year – ICSSD 2009 and 2012 and various NSS Speloart awards. He is a frequent attendee and speaker at various cave and scuba related seminars and workshops and has shown across the USA and is collected worldwide. The NACD is fortunate to also have himas our Conservation Chair.

Come listen to Michael Angelo discuss gas analysis. For more information on the seminar, go to www.nacdmembers.com. See you in October.

Safe Diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org

 

[NACD]

Just wanted to say thanks to Chipola Divers for being a sponsor for the 45 annual NACD Seminar. Chipola Divers, LLC began as Southwest Scuba in Arizona in 2004 as an information website for local dive sites in the southwest region of the United States. A year later Rob and Jen Neto became PADI instructors and started offering instruction and guided dives. In 2007, Rob and Jen moved to Florida and renamed the business Chipola Divers, after the Chipola River which runs through Marianna, FL and is the home of 63 fresh water springs including Jackson Blue, Hole in the Wall, and Twin caves.

Today, Chipola Divers, LLC is a full service dive center that offers full instruction including open water, sidemount, technical, rebreather, and cave diving. Chipola Divers, LLC banks over 14,000 cubic feet of nitrox, as well as trimix and oxygen. It also carries several scuba equipment lines including Tilly Tec, SEAC, HOG, KISS Rebreathers, EezyCut, and McNett.

Visit www.chipoladivers.com for more information about Chipola Divers, LLC. For more information on the seminar, visitwww.nacdmembers.com. Also, visit us on facebook.​

Safe diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org
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[NACD]

Rob Neto is rounding out our list of speakers at the the seminar and will discuss rebreather bailout. Rob is an experienced scuba diver and instructor who has been diving for more than ten years and has been a dive instructor for eight years. He is the President and CEO of Chipola Divers, LLC and currently teaches a variety of scuba diving courses for NACD, NSS-CDS, IANTD, TDI, SDI, and PADI. Prior to teaching scuba diving, he taught English, Economics, and Business courses for Cochise College, Rio Salado College, and Pima Community College for over 10 years while in Arizona. Rob also taught CPR, First Aid, and EFR for the American Red Cross and has worked in the healthcare field for over 20 years with 14 years as a Registered Nurse in Emergency/Trauma as well as Critical Care.

Rob has volunteered in a variety of capacities for a multitude of dive related organizations including the NACD, NSS-CDS, NFSA, Wilson Elementary Scuba Club, The American Red Cross, and PADI Project AWARE. Rob is currently on the Board of Directors for the NACD, and is the International Training Director and the International Safety Officer for the organization. He has invited instructors from around the world onto the NACD Training Committee and is currently working with them to update the NACD Training Standards. He has also revitalized the NACD International Safety Program and is working to make it more proactive.

He recently brought almost 3000’ of gold line to Cozumel and was part of a team that replaced deteriorating dangerous line in one of the local systems. In addition to devoting hundreds of volunteer hours annually, Rob enjoys non-training cave and wreck exploration. He mentors divers as they transition from recreational to technical diving and helps them with issues involving gear configuration and trim. Rob assisted with an exploration and survey project in Cozumel a couple years ago and has returned several times since then to continue to explore the Dos Coronas cave system. Rob has most recently explored and surveyed over a mile of passage in Dos Coronas, expanding the system to a total length of almost 8000’. Rob is involved in several exploration and survey projects in Florida and Mexico.

He currently lives in Greenwood, Florida with his wife, six dogs, and two kitties. He looks forward to an early retirement from healthcare so that he can focus his time and efforts on animal rescue when he’s not diving or volunteering his time to the dive community.

To hear Rob, register at www.nacdmembers.com. See you the weekend of October 11 thru 13th.​

Safe diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org
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---------- Post added August 30th, 2013 at 06:17 PM ----------

A big thank you to Chipola Divers and Rob Neto for donating a Tilly Tec 1500 canister light to the NACD Annual Seminar. The Led light comes with a TT1 battery which provides 240 minutes of burn time. You can find more information regarding the light on the Chipola Divers website, www.chipoladivers.com. We appreciate Chipola Divers donation to the seminar.​

Safe diving,

Sandy Robinson
pr@nationalassociationforcavediving.org
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