Bruce Zahn
Bruce Zahn is a non-profit executive in the Great Lakes area of the U.S.A. When he is not traveling or drinking wine and rum with the love of his life Jacki, Bruce enjoys riding his Harley and scuba diving.
Not For Everyone – Freediving Antarctica
Will Glendinning has led a very busy and interesting life. He is a published author and well-known speaker. After university he started a career in the event industry, and...
The Future for DEMA
Tom Ingram, Executive Director for DEMA, talked about the future of DEMA and of sport diving in general in an interview on November 6, 2013. He laid out several...
The Evolution of a Dive Certifying Agency – Scuba Educators Incorporated
Tom Leaird, although a quiet man in person, has taken a strong stand in regards to his agency’s scuba instruction for many years. He took this stand when he...
Teens4Oceans
Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some people sit back and say “What happened?” Luckily for people who are concerned about the water world...
The on-going scourge of Lionfish
Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific and beautiful fish to look at, and can be quite the attraction in someone's salt water fish tank. Unfortunately, back in 1985, it...
Guardian of the Reef
Diving professionals in the Cayman Islands have long history of looking for new ways to promote diving and conservation, and Divetech’s “Guardian of the Reef” fits right in to...
DEMA’s Shark Finning Initiative
70,000,000 sharks. That is how many sharks are killed every year for shark fin soup. 70,000,000 sharks which are caught, pulled on board of a fishing vessel, have their...
From Big Blue to the Deep Blue by Ron Kipp
How do you follow up on a life which leads you up the corporate ladder at IBM; leaving the relative safety of the corporate world and buying a dive...
DEMA Show 2012: Unified Team Diving and the Extreme Scuba Makeover
Unified Team Diving was started back in 2007 by a group of divers and instructors who were dissatisfied with the inconsistencies between what was being taught to divers in...
DEMA Show 2012: A New Lens to the Underwater World
In January 2013, Graham Casden, Founder and CEO of Ocean Classrooms, will change the way the underwater world is brought and taught to school students.
This new program has three...
DEMA Show 2012: DiverGuard Unveils Cutting Edge Diver Safety Device
It is not often that a truly innovative new device comes on the SCUBA landscape, but DiverGuard is just that. DiverGuard combines two separate diver signaling technologies with an...
DEMA Show 2012: Teens4Oceans
When was the last time you saw a group of high school students empowered and trusted to place an $80,000 underwater camera and water monitoring system in the ocean? ...
DEMA Show 2012: NASE – Learn Green, Dive Blue
All SCUBA agencies teach environmental awareness while diving - don't touch the coral, take only pictures, leave only bubbles, etc - but the National academy of SCUBA Educators (NASE)...
DEMA Show 2012: Fastencil Equipment ID
Why would a diver spend $500+ for a BCD, $250+ for a wet suit, $75+ for a dive bag and then mark their name on them with a magic...