The Great American Diving Company is sponsoring a Scuba diving Venturing Crew in the New Horizons Scouting District. A Venture crew is a group of youth between the ages of 14 and 21 years of age. While the New Horizons District covers the West County area, all youth and adults are welcome to join the crew from any area. Meetings will be held at the Chesterfield store in the Chesterfield Commons.
Ben Brennecke, New Horizons Senior District Executive, is “Very excited about a new Scuba Venturing crew in his district and The Great American Diving Company sponsoring the crew” Ben said he “Was impressed with the operation on Main street store” and he even signed up for a Discover Scuba, try Scuba diving, at the store’s Aqua Center on his visit.
Steve Olfe, owner of the The Great American Diving Company, assigned one of his Master Scuba Instructors, Bill Cowley, to provide leadership and Scuba training for the crew’s meetings. Steve said “Bill is a great fit since he has over 15 years of scouting experience and holds the top PADI Scuba Instructor rating. We also have many great instructors on our staff to help out the Scuba diving crew.”
“The focus of the crew will be to learn to Scuba diving and participate in other venture scouting events” said Bill. “Scouting has a great deal to offer today’s youth. I would think the crew would also attend other scouting events like Fall Fun Rally, Skiing Night, Scouting 100 year Anniversary, and Sea Base just to name a few.”
Anyone interested in learning more about the Venturing Crew can contact Ben Brennecke (314) 256-3072 or Bill Cowley (636) 787-7882. The first meeting dates have been set up for March 24, 2009 at 7 pm and April 2, 2009 at 7pm to find out more information about the crew. Feel free to attend either evening. The meetings will be at the Chesterfield Store, 138 Chesterfield Valley Drive, Chesterfield, MO 63305 (636) 787-7882.
Thanks and congratulations to our newest divers in Saturday's eLearning Open Water Class. Have fun on that cruise!
This past weekend, myself and several others from TGADC traveled to Chicago for the 39th Annual Our World Underwater show. I've been going to Our World Underwater regularly for the past 20 years, sometimes as a dive consumer, sometimes working the show in a booth but mostly to see old friends and make new ones. Over the years I've seen Our World Underwater grow from a small grass roots show held in the meeting rooms in the Hyatt O'Hare to a sophisticated show in the adjacent Rosemont Convention Center. Much of this growth and maturity has come from the excellent work of the volunteers who produce the show and primarily from the vision and dedication of Patrick Hammer, the President of Our World Underwater. Patricks enthusiasm and excitement for diving is infectious.
Diving accidents, while rare, can happen and the most common and universal form of first aid is administration of oxygen.
PADI IDC Staff Instructor Jack Humes (c) shows Rany Unger (l) and Patrick Masching (r) how to analyze an Enriched Air fill to verify it's oxygen content.
Thanks to Scott Fletcher and Fred Roethler for completing their EFR Instructor Course taught by EFR Instructor Trainer Terry Flynn.
Thanks to Rod & Jennifer Riegel for coming out and participating in the PADI Digital Underwater Photo class with PADI Master Instructor Bill Cowley. Great pictures guys and have fun on your trip...be sure to bring us some pictures from the trip.
Congratulations and thank you to the students and staff of our most recent PADI Open Water Diver course at the TGADC Aquacenter. Way to go and keep those fins in the water!
Thanks and congratulations to the our PADI Open Water Course students in the February 7th & 8th weekend class. Have fun!
Join us for an entertaining and informative evening with Richie Kohler. Richie is well known around the world for his technical diving expeditions and is the subject of the best seller novel Shadow Divers. Richie will be talking about closed circuit rebreathers, their application to technical and recreational diving and will have several units on display as well.
Congratulations to PADI Course Directors Steve Olfe and Terry Flynn for becoming only the 2nd and 3rd PADI Instructor Trainers anywhere for the new PADI Sidemount Diver Specialty Course. Steve & Terry attended a comprehensive training course this past weekend in Florida to come up to speed on the PADI version of this type of equipment configuration.
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