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| HydroSports Alert! |
February 9, 2010 |
Greetings!
Looking for a job? Want to supplement your income with part time work? Want to set your own hours? Want to work in the tropics?
Join us this coming Friday night, February 12, at 6:45 for a very special event, PADI GoPro Night, lead by PADI Regional Manager Barry Dunford and PADI Course Director Mark Fischer.
Whether you are a newly certified diver or an experienced instructor, PADI professionals are in constant demand at dive centers and resorts around the world or in your own back yard. We'll discuss the steps you'll take to begin a part time or full time career as a PADI professional.
 Special one night only incentives to start or continue your PADI career will be available.
Come share the excitement!
Mark Fischer, HydroSports Dive and Travel 503-304-5383 |
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A Fisch by Any Other Name ...
Citizen Scientists Do Make a Difference. |
Dive Club Meeting!
Thursday night, February 11!
6:30 PM! Pot Luck Dinner!
If you missed Janna Nichols recent visit to Salem, don't miss this opportunity to hear from one our regions best known Underwater Ambassadors.
Janna Nichols is one of my heroes. I've been excited by the underwater world since I was a kid. Becoming a diver gives me the opportunity to explore and experience a new world every time I descend. I purchased my first underwater ID book before my first open water training dives so I'd have an idea of what I would see. Janna takes marine ID to a new level and she loves to share. Here's what she says about herself:
Underwater photography and fish and invertebrate ID are my favorite dive activities, and I get a big kick out of teaching it to others. I conduct REEF fish and invertebrate surveys on almost all of my dives as well as take photos of marine life. I catalog and archive my photos so they are available for educational uses.
Janna's presentations are fun, exciting, informative and provocative. Come join us Thursday night at 6:30! |
Open Water Weekend Class, February 20/21
Limited space available, the class is nearly full! |
 Open Water Scuba Students! Complete all your classroom and confined water dive training in one weekend.
Our next Weekend Open Water Class meets Saturday and Sunday February 20 and 21 from 9 AM to 6 PM each day. You'll need your materials right away so you can read the Open Water Diver Manual from start to finish before class begins.
Open Water Training Dives will take place March 5 to 7 at the Yellow House in Hoodsport, Washington. Call to register, 503-304-5383. |
Dive Fiji: May 8 to 15, 2010
From $2025 per person |
We're headed back to Fiji in May. Our goals are two-fold; bring medical and dental care to children AND have some fun diving in one of the world's best destinations, Beqa Lagoon. Click HERE for full trip details.
If you are a medical professional, we'd love to have you join us. Some of your trip cost may be tax deductible. If you are not a medical professional, we'd love to have you join us as well.
 We'll stay at the Waidroka Bay Resort. Located on the Coral Coast of the island of Veti Levu, Waidroka Bay Resort is a secluded, manicured dive resort adjacent to Beqa Lagoon, one of the most renowned dive destinations in the Pacific. Our stay will include 10 dives, including two world famous Beqa Lagoon Shark dives.
The trip includes:
Round trip air fare* Los Angeles to Nadi, Fiji
7 nights lodging
10 dives including 2-tank Beqa Shark Dive
All meals at the resort
Transfers from Nadi to the Resort
Extra Bag Allowance to bring medical supplies and equipment
The trip does not include:
Air Fare to/from Los Angeles
Souvenirs, gratuities and beverages purchased at the bar. * Note: Air fare may change until paid in full.
Contact Mark Fischer to register, 503-304-5383 |
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Diving with Pacific Adventure is one of the best ways to enjoy the sights of the Hood Canal. Most of the sites cannot be reached from shore.
 HydroSports has space aboard the Down Time for a few more divers Sunday morning, March 7. We board in Pleasant Harbor about 9:30 AM and will dive at the best sites available given the weather and tides. Hot lunch, chips, chocolate, tea, espresso, water and Diane's famous chocolate chip cookies are included in the $75 charter fee.
Call to reserve space, 503-304-5383. |
Rescue Class Forming: Your Most Challenging Adventure
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Diving is adventurous. Diving is exciting. Diving has risk.
"Challenging" and "rewarding" best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course.  Building upon what you've already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur.
The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them. Most divers find this course both demanding and rewarding, and at the end, say it's the best course they've ever taken.
What You Learn:
- Self rescue
- Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
- Emergency management and equipment
- Rescuing panicked divers
- Rescuing unresponsive divers
Class will begins March 4; additional dates to be determined by Rescue Candidates.
Call to register, 503-304-5383. |
HydroSports is a Scuba Diving Merit Badge Fulfillment Center
Earn the new Boy Scout Scuba Diving Merit Badge at HydroSports |
 Scuba Diving, the first new Boy Scouts of America merit badge in over three years, reflects the new direction of BSA to develop merit badges based on youth/scout input to assure relevance and excitement.
This merit badge, developed in association with PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors), leverages the BSA spirit of outdoor adventure and expands BSA aquatics offerings.
More than 84 percent of scouts surveyed were interested in the merit badge and ...
(click HERE for the rest of the story) |
Mares and TUSA Recalls:
Reprinted from Undercurrent |
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Mares is Recalling All Nemo Air Computers:
If you've got one, contact your dealer now. Mares issued a recall last summer for the slow-leaking O-rings on the Nemo Air computer's Quick Connector hose, but it turns out the replacement O-ring issued wasn't the solution. On February 1, Mares announced another recall for the entire hose. "We designed a new quick disconnect system to replace it," Mares' national sales manager Steve Lamphear told Undercurrent. All Nemo Air dive computers need this replacement so contact a Mares dealer to get the hose replacement, free of charge. If you want Mares to do the replacement, call Customer Service at 800-874-3326 and give them your computer's serial number for shipping info.
And A Regulator Recall From TUSA:
It's taking back RS-670 regulators sold between May and September 2009 because loosening of the BLC plug on the first stage may cause a high-pressure leak. Affected units have first stage serial numbers between 22 and 29, 31 and 103, 637 and 676, 708 and 716, and 737 and 776. Take your regulator back to HydroSports, or contact TUSA at info@tusa.com or call 800-482-2282 to mail it back for repair, covered under warranty. |
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Best fisches!
 Mark Fischer
HydroSports Dive and Travel
3846 River Road North
Keizer OR 97303 503-304-5383
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