Greetings!
Summer is here to all AQUANAUTS! This year we have a few NEW Dive Industry Relationships to inspire ALL divers. From the novice diver to the most advanced diver, as well as the handicaped divers. Such as, DiveHeart, SUDS, HSA, ProDive International, and Video Dude Productions. All positive energy is around us to have a FANTASTIC 2009!
This New Year will bring exciting new Dive Excursions with more Local Dive Trips and Social Events. Of course, continue your education in diving with our exciting Classes. The Hunter Education Course has become one of our most popular new additions. As we look forward to a Fun Filled Year of Diving we would like to Thank You for your support this past year! ...AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY looks forward to providing you with the best service and aquatic exploration underwater!
Thank YOU,
Instructor Worth O'Brien AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY
Toll Free: 1-877-AQUA-TAG
Lionfish Madness:
Devistating the Caribbean to the USA
Lionfish (Pterois Volitans) have been documented along the entire United States East Coast from Florida through Massachusetts, East to Bermuda and South throughout the Bahamas and in other Caribbean Islands such as Turks and Caicos and Cuba. The expansion has been extremely rapid and exponential in scope. We have seen some Lionfish ha e been located on the Captain Dan and Sea Emperor, also some divers have seen them off Boca Artificial Reef.
DIVE EXCURSIONS:
Divi, Bonaire - August 22 thru 29 Nassau, Bahamas - October 10 thru 17
(TBA)
Manatee Dive Crystal Springs, FL
Cavern / Cave Dive Ginnie Springs, FL
Creature Feature Key Largo, FL
USS Oriskany Shipwreck Pensacola, FL
USS Spiegal Grove Shipwreck Key Largo, FL AQUANAUTS is offering this exclusive excursion package for a limited time. To take advantage of this offer simply click and go to AQUANAUTS ISLAND EXCURSIONS to purchase your dive vacation!
SPECIALTY OF THE MONTH:
Night
Wreck - August
Hunter4
A.W.A.R.E. - September
Navigation
AQUA LUNG VINTAGE (Double Hose System)
FEATURED DIVE of the Month
BUNDLED COURSE SPECIALS
DISCOUNT% BOAT TRIP CARDS to Experience ALL the South Florida Vessels
AQUANAUTS is offering these exclusive specialty courses throughout the month. Take advantage of the most beautiful dive locations within the United States; the most thoroughly developed training for certification; the best opportunities for NEW specialties; and the most professionally taught classes. Couses are conducted as requested or scheduled as SOM for your conveinence. Come dive with us at AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY and explore what ALL South Florida Diving has to offer!
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ISLAND PARADISE DIVE EXCURSION
BONAIRE - August 22 thru 29 |
DIVI, BONAIRE: Colorful, unpretentious, and fun- the Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino is the perfect base for vacationers drawn to the sleepy island of Bonaire and World-Class Caribbean SCUBA Diving. Spacious oceanfront and gardenview guestrooms and suites are gaily decorated in bright, tropical colors. Private balconies overlook the Caribbean Sea and invite guests to relax after a day of diving. The Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino offers Divi Dive Bonaire- a PADI Five Star Dive Operation with custom dive boats, equipment, and an experienced dive crew.
For the seventh consecutive year, Bonaire has been rated the Top Dive Destination Overall (Caribbean/Atlantic) in Scuba Diving Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards 2008. Bonaire also received the #1 rating in eight other (Caribbean/Atlantic) categories: Top Marine Life, Top Marine Environment, Top Macro Life, Top Shore Diving Destination, Top Destination for Underwater Photography, Top Destination for Beginners, Top Value, and Top Snorkeling. For the Readers' Choice awards, thousands of Scuba Diving subscribers and web users rated their dive experiences on a scale of one to five.
Come dive with AQUANAUTS and enjoy an exclusive dive package opportunity at an unbelievable rate at Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino. Dive daily morning, afternoon, or night on the fleet of vessels or take advantage of unlimited beach diving. Diving conditions in Bonaire include no strong currents, no big seas and short boat rides- keeping your topside time comfortable- while good visibility, dense coral growth and a multitude of brightly colored reef fish allow you to enjoy our underwater wonderland. Don't miss out!
Space is limited for this extravagant pristine island diving adventure. Excursion dates: August 22-29 at a rate of $1,120.00pp for a seven night stay in one of the most luxurious carribean dive resorts world-wide Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino. This is a $$ Savings of $630.98 $$ to use towards your meal plan and dive package due to this short notice. Lodging will be a STUDIO w/Kitchenette type accomodations- features two double beds and a queen sleeper sofa with a max occupancy of (4) with (2) private. Check-in is at 3:00pm and check-out is at 11:00am with round-trip transportation to and from airport to hotel.
*Air Fare, BNMP Tag, Meal Plan, Dive Package, and additional taxes or activities are NOT ncluded.
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ISLAND PARADISE DIVE EXCURSION
BAHAMAS - October 10 thru 17 |
NASSAU, BAHAMAS:
Relaxing, pristine, and spaciously comfortable- the Blue Water Resort at Guanahani Village in Nassau, Bahamas is a private beachfront community featuring some of the most sought after resort villas in the Bahamas Islands. Each unit has a Full Kitchen, Spacious Living Room and Patio, and is just footsteps away from the White Sand and Crystal Blue Waters which Nassau is famous for. Located on a private stretch of World-Famous Cable Beach & Casinos, within short walking distance to great shopping, restaurants, and one of the island's only two casinos.
At Blue Water Resort at Guanahani Village, your front door opens onto one of the world's most breath-taking playgrounds. Work up a sweat at our private tennis court before you cool off poolside with a refreshing beverage, basking in the Bahamian sun. If tennis isn't your sport, a championship golf course and casino are located just minutes away. Also the beach offers some of the Bahamas best swimming, snorkeling, sailing, fishing all in the crystal blue waters of Nassau's Cable Beach, Bahamas. Plunge into an exciting "Aquatic Adventure" vacation. Excursion dates: October 10-17 at a rate of $2,680.00pp for seven nights to sunny Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas! Space is limited for this exclusive AQUANAUTS premier package. Blue Water Resort at Guanahani Village is a three story villa will consist of only a maximum occupancy of (8) with (3) private. Check-in is at 3:00pm and check-out is at 11:00am with round-trip Escalade Stretched Limousine transportation provided to and from airport to hotel.
Pirates of Nassau museum- The year is 1716... this is an interactive Pirate Attraction in the heart of downtown Nassau. Your adventure begins on a moonlit dock amidst the sounds of lapping water and Pirates celebrating in a nearby tavern. Board a replica of the pirate ship " Revenge" and enter the world of cutlass wielding, bloodthirsty Pirates. Nassau, Bahamas was a paradise haven during the "Golden Age" of piracy and the port of many sailing adventure stories. Learn more during an inviting tour into the infamous lifestyle of some of the most notorious Pirates of the Caribbean!
Power Boat Adventures is an explosive Miami-Vice powerboat run to the nearby Exuma Islands of the Bahamas! Enjoy feeding the Island Iguanas on a deserted island, snorkel between the islands traveling down current via a guided tour, sunbath into heaven on a Private Island, then hand feed the Wild Stingrays and watch a Shark Feeding before an all out banquette of Native Foods and island tea mon! This is an all day activity so be prepared to relax while being subjected to "Island Hoping Adventures".
Stuart Cove's Aqua Adventures is Nassau's premier attraction featuring water-based activities. The company is divided into five divisions. Three divisions offer activities for tourists on the island - Dive Bahamas, Snorkel Bahamas and SUB Bahamas. The remaining two divisions are Fin Photo and Stuart Cove's Underwater Productions. Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas is Nassau's leading full service dive resort. Originally opened in 1978, the operation has grown to a fleet of seven dive vessels, with five of the boats over 40 feet in length. Located on the southwest side of New Providence Island, Stuart Cove's Today is in the ideal physical location to take advantage of the diverse underwater geological formations. As such, dive sites are available for divers with no experience all the way up to expert-level dives including four new shipwrecks we have helped place in the last two years.
Experienced divers can participate in up to (5) dives a day. Two dives are offered in the morning, with two additional dives in the afternoon. An optional night dive is available on selected evenings as well. Dive sites encompass steep vertical walls that plummet to 6,000 feet of depth, shallow tropical reefs, 13 different locations containing ship or airplane wrecks, and numerous locations that were used as underwater movie sets for feature films.
The feature activities at Stuart Cove's for our divers is our "Extreme Shark Adventure" . The Shark Adventure program is a 2-tank dive trip that takes divers on an underwater encounter with Caribbean Reef Sharks. On the first dive divers participate in a "free swim" with the sharks along a beautiful wall. On the second dive, the group forms up in a semi-circle on the 50-foot bottom and watch while a professional shark feeder enters the water with a box of bait. Upon reaching the bottom, the feeder begins feeding the sharks with the aid of a pole spear. To say the sharks come close to the divers is an understatement ...they are everywhere!
Other featured activities are the 007 James Bond Movie site dive; the SubDive adventure; Atoll Blue Water dive excursion and many others...
*Air Fare, government taxes, meal plan and additional dives or activities NOT included.
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DIVEHEART SOUTH FLORIDA
Fort Lauderdale - August 19 thru 23 |
 
The Florida Keys is the backdrop for the most recent DMW Diveheart Military Wounded and Diveheart Disabled Divers trips June 22-27 and June 28-02 and July 27-02 Veterans and Civilians with disabilities had the opportunity to experience and enjoy beautiful Key Largo underwater. DMW volunteers from Illinois and Florida came together to bring Veterans with TBI (Traumatic Brain Injuries), Amputee, Blindness, Quadriplegia, Tourettes, Ceberal Palsy, and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) to the beautiful reefs beneath the waves. Read their story by going to www.diveheart.org ...AQUANAUTS is dedicated to brining ALL the opportunity to explore and "Submerge Into Aquatic Adventures" through posative relationships "Interacting With A DiveHeart" and "Making Posabilities For Disabilities"!
Volunteers are the Lifeblood of DIVEHEART...
Many caring individuals, with a multitude of talents, have already exercised their skills to benefit the disabled community through DIVEHEART.
As a DIVEHEART volunteer you can unleash your creativity and lend your support in a variety of ways. Here are just a few examples of how you can become a friend of DIVEHEART.
DIVE BUDDY (BDT): Certified SCUBA divers can learn to assist disabled divers both in the pool and open water as Volunteers take the Buddy Diver Training.
Next Class Date: Scheduled August 19-23 at Pro Dive to 6pm-9pm classroom sessions and the weekend from 8am-12pm pool sessions. Become a Dive Buddy contact Instructor Worth O'Brien at info@aquanauts.biz for Broward County.
Business Friend of DIVEHEART: A variety of businesses already support DIVEHEART through direct financial, product and/or service donations
Carry & Display DIVEHEART merchandise: Diveshops, Retailers and other businesses can agree to display and resell DIVEHEART trademarked merchandise, with all proceeds benefiting the DIVEHEART Foundation
Event Volunteers: Help out at DIVEHEART Fundraisers, outings and other events and activities
SCUBA Diving Instructors: Get certified to teach students with disabilities
Friends of DIVEHEART: Can also lend their support through leveraging of resources & personal skills as well as financial support & getting the word out about DIVEHEART through publicity & word of mouth. Become a friend of DIVEHEART today!
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AQUANAUTS SCUBA STARS
PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE |
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Congratulations... Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman
"The Difficult Anytime The Impossible By Appointment Only"
- MD ADVISOR BLAIR DELL
- MD ADVISOR SCOTT ROLLER
- SGT KYLE DUBOIS
- HM3 BARAC BARRERA
- HM3 JACOB HAYES
- HM3 ERIC HAYNES
- HM3 PAUL LUTZ
- HM3 JUSTIN WALLACE
- HM3 JORDAN WILKINS
- HM2 HASSAN VARGAS-TOBON
The SARCs are a team of Hospital Corpsmen trained and specialized in the same aspects of their Recon Marine counterparts, in Amphibious Operations, Deep Reconnaissance and Direct Action missions. They are also capable of conducting detailed underwater ship-bottom searches. Selection of SARC candidates is a rigorous, grueling (2) year pipline. Screening and training begin with academic and physical fitness assessments far above average with a required commanding officer endorsement. SARCs must complete Field Medical Service School, Fleet Marine School, Basic Reconnaisance School, Navy SCUBA School, Marine Combatant Dive School, Amphibious Reconnaissance Course, Basic Airborne School, Special Operations Combatant Medic, and Dive Medical Technician aka Dive Medicine Medical Personnel. During operational status, the teams will then be dispersed evenly throughout the Marine Recon Platoons; usually one SARC or Amphibious Recon Hospital Corpsman per platoon. There have been moments when SARCs were the point man, acted as the radio operator, or even the team leader in the Marine Recon Teams.
The environments that Recon Marines and Hospital Corpsmen face during a mission are usually very hazardous ...life-threatening "The Difficult Anytime The Impossible By Appointment Only". The Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsmen use their paramedic skills to provide basic life support and other routine emergency medical health care procedures related to the hazards of Scout Swimming, open circuit SCUBA Diving, closed circuit Rebreather Diving, and Military Freefall during amphibious reconnaissance operations. They also instruct and advise the Recon Marines in prevention and treatment of illnesses, whether in combat or training.
The SARC has the duty of Hyperbaric Chamber Operator: skilled in the operation of recompression chambers for hyperbaric treatment. They are also required to know laws and physics of diving, fundamentals of proper gas mixtures, theory and practice of decompression and the use of decompression tables.
SPECIAL AMPHIBIOUS RECONNAISSANCE CORPSMAN MISSION:
Performs routine sick calls, diagnostic patient care as well as associated operational, administrative, and logistical duties.
Performs basic anesthesia, minor surgical, basic clinical laborator, basic radiology, and other routine and emergency health care procedures as required.
Instructs and advises junior medical and operational personnel in prevetion and treatment of illness and injuries.
Recognizes all types of illnesses associated with diving to include oxygen toxicity and hypercapnia, nitrogen narcosis, type I and II decompression sickness and air/gas embolism.

USMC COMBATANT DIVE INSTRUCTOR:
SGT Kyle DuBois, USMC
Panama City, FL
1st Force Reconnaissance Co.
PRESCUBA TRAINING:
MILITARY SCUBA SCHOOL:
MARINE COMBATANT DIVER:
DEEP SALVAGE & TECHNICAL DIVER:
DIVE MEDICINE MEDICAL PERSONNEL:
...Supporting military SCUBA Divers "Performing Under Pressure" in new underwater environments is just one of our goals at AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY.
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AQUANAUTS AWARD BOARD
AQUAFIED! SCUBAFIED! CERTIFIED! - '09 GRADUATES |
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Congratulations to the newest... finally qualified divers! No matter what your experience level is. No matter how long you have been diving. No matter what exciting locations you have explored underwater. We all will never forget those first few breaths underwater! This recognition is to all those divers joining our Dive Friendly Family. ...As you continue diving you'll have many opportunities to take on new adventures; network with other divers from extraordinary backgrounds with perhaps the newest in cutting edge technology or ideas; and enjoy beautiful new locations throughout the world underwater! And best of all Diving is for everyone to relax in and around the aquarium!
Basic Open Water Divers '09: Odile Barbazan Lorena Pardo Ryan Lochrane
Sean Lee Andrew Ketterer Maria Rubines
Andreas Zeiter Stephanie VonSaalfeld Juliane Boselli
Danielle Englert Ornruedee Rodchan Jannett Vargas
Natalie Tierijaroonkul Sidarat Thepsukalux Jennifer Becker
Jaroslava Popova Angsumalin Pomnak Dider Vansteenberghe
Andriy Zarubin Chalermporn Ruaylarp Erin Connors
Advanced Open Water Divers '09:
April Sick Michael Gagliano
Garrett Funkhouser Jevgenijs Popovs
Adam Roberti Pavel Kerzhner
Odile Barbazan Fabio Paparoni
Sean Lee
Enriched Air Nitrox Divers '09:
Odile Barbazan
Sean Lee
Ryan Lochrane
Rescue Open Water Divers '09:
Odile Barbazan
Sean Lee
Jonathan Copley
Mark McAllister
Master SCUBA Divers '09:
Kyle DuBois
Timothy Gillette
Jonathan Copley
Mark McAllister
DiveMasters '09:
Kyle DuBois
Charles Kramer
Keerati Ruaylarp
James Bowman
Andre Harris
...Bring families together in new underwater environments is just one of our goals at AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY.
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Submerge Into Adventure
The World's Most Exciting Underwater Adventure!!! |
Upcoming Classes Start Date Posted: 
BOW: July 28 6pm-9pm
SOM: July 31 1pm-4pm (Deep Diver Specialty)
BOW: August 04 6pm-9pm
SOM: August 07 1pm-4pm (Wreck Diver Specialty)
ALV: August 10 8am-4pm (Double-Hose Dive)
Jr.BOW: August 11 6pm-9pm
EANx: August 13 1pm-4pm
AOW: August 14 1pm-4pm (Wreck Diver Specialty)
ROW: August 17 9am-4pm
DMT: August 17 9am-4pm
BDT: August 19 6pm-9pm - DiveHeart / SUDS / HSA
BOW: August 21 6pm-9pm weekend class
BOW: August 25 9am-12pm
EANx: August 27 1pm-4pm
AOW: August 28 1pm-4pm (Wreck Diver Specialty)
(BOW) Basic Open Water Certification
(AOW) Advanced Open Water Certification
(SOM) Specialty Of Month Certification
(EANx) Enriched Air Nitrox Certification
(ROW) Rescue Open Water Certification
(DMT) Dive Master Training Certification
(ALV) Aqua-Lung Vintage Training Dive - Double-Hose System Dive
(BDT) Buddy Diver Training Certification - DiveHeart / SUDS / HSA
Certification Courses are conducted on a consistant schedule monthly. Custom and Private classes are available upon your request. Please go to www.aquanauts.biz to purchase and confirm your adventure into the "Aquatic World"!
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| About AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY |
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AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY provides top-notch Professional development and instruction for aquatic programs; corporate, public, disability and non-profit events; daily dive charters; the latest program technology; online equipment sales; online course scheduling and sales; great customer support; and prices that can't be beat!
*Air Fare and additional dives or activities are NOT included.

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