Assemble 150 passionate scuba divers on a nice summer evening. Add workshops, barbecue and movies, stir and what you get is a party! And that’s exactly what Dive into Summer is!
This event, organized by the Dutch NAUI Representative Scuba-Academie in collaboration with DuikeninBeeld.tv and Dive and Travel, took place on June 27 in Vinkeveen, an island area for fresh water diving.  The rescue divers of the local fire department and divers of the Royal Navy brought their specialized equipment. Under their supervision, participants have been searching for 'victims' in specially prepared wrecks. They also could try full face masks and band masks. Using the navy's compasses seemed full face masks and band masks. qn omgekeerde volgordequite more complicated than they ever thought.
There were more workshops about boat diving, cave diving, photography, fresh water life and first aid for equipment.
Safety had top priority. Thunderstorms passed closely and was the reason to put all water activities on hold for a little while. Scuba-Academie’s Cees den Toom, commented:  «Whatever we do, safety comes first. Thunderstorms are a ‘no go’. » Twenty minutes later all activities could be resumed.
After the barbecue, the location has been changed in an open air theatre. At sunset the audience enjoyed prize winning movies about the underwaterworld, powered by the North Sea Film Festival. Diving IS fun!

After succesfull connecting with the local Oman diveindustry, Naui  Europe Representative #40992 Jean-Marc Claes (Belgium) succesfully conducted afirst IQP with 3 Omani candidate dive instructors. Following this event, Jean-Marc Claes returned to Omana few weeks later to train and certify one of the first CD’s in Oman, mr. Yannick Borlée.

Not long after these NAUI training in Oman, the first localdive centres became also NAUI Dive centres giving the dive business in that area a seriousboost in many directions. Jean-Marc Claes updated many of the local dive guides,instructors and divecentre owners, giving them solutions to upgrade their business and creating more businesspossibilities.

Zondag 13 januari, locatie Scuba-Academie in Vinkeveen is het moment om te ontdekken wat technisch duiken inhoudt. Ben jij altijd al gefascineerd geweest in grotduiken, wrakduiken en diep duiken of wil je wel eens een nieuwe weg in de duikwereld inslaan, kom die dag dan naar Scuba-Academie en laat je door de ervaren technische duikers JP Bresser en Cees den Toom informeren over deze geavanceerde vorm van duiken. 

En het blijft niet bij informatie, het is ook je kans om met hen een technische duik te maken en te zien wat er allemaal bij komt kijken.

Ben je minimaal Advanced Scuba Diver of heb je een gelijkwaardig brevet, meld je dan aan voor deze gelegenheid.  De dag begint om 10:00 uur. Aanmelden kan op This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Aan de dag zijn geen kosten verbonden.

A NAUI historical event

At the end of November 2007 the first NAUI Rep seminar was held at the European office of NAUI in the Netherlands. NAUI HQ (USA) and NAUI Europe prepared for the NAUI Reps an intensive three day NAUI REP seminar. The purpose was updating, training , marketing, learning, sharing and this all on top level. Exchange of ideas regarding branding  the NAUI name was also an exiting part of the program.

For this NAUI seminar there were REPs from all over Europe, a total of 19 (incl. 3 NAUI REP business partners) attended the program. The NAUI Europe team was assisted by NAUI HQ (USA), through Jim Bram, Jed Livingstone and Chad Barbey.

Per 3 maart 2007 is de samenwerking gestart van ZwemCentrum Kollum met Triton duikopleidingen.

De manager van ZwemCentrum Kollum, Hans Pandjes, ventileerde het idee en de wens van vele ouders dat er na het behalen van het zwem ABC geen zwem/vervolg opleiding voor kinderen meer werd geboden. Het NAUI snorkel en juniorduik (12 jaar) programma sluit aan bij deze wens welke vandaag gestalte kreeg. Voor de cursus welke start op 16 maart 2007 is reeds grote belangstelling.

During the business contact days for the north of the Netherlands, who was organizedin the FEC/WTC to Leeuwarden on 20 and 21 March 2007, was Triton divecenter present with her divetank. During the businessdays there where 700 exhibitors, 22,052 visitors could be greeted. Various visitors were surprised through the presence of a divetank, uniquely on these contactdays which networks of enterprises as objective had. Our promotion ladies enriched the contactdays with the distributing of flayers in complete divegear. Various accessions for an trydive or NAUI divecourse - in the Netherlands or during a foreign country divetrip - was the consequence.

On April 14 and 15, the event Extreem Duiken (extreme diving) took place in Antwerp, Belgium. The event turned out to be a meeting point for technical divers from the Netherlands and Belgium. Scuba-Academie, NAUI representative for the Netherlands, was there! The tec team, consisting of Cees den Toom, JP Bresser, Eddy van Vliet and Robert Leenen, talked to many divers about the technical diving courses by NAUI which have a high reputation worldwide. And it was not just informing interested divers, some of them even applied for various courses, from Intro to Tec to Instructor. According to one of the new students 'because of the professionalism the team members show, and their wide experience in technical diving of all sorts'.
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