It also reported that a total ban on fishing of sharks in the Bahamas was introduced after the largest local producer of seafood, “Sankoh” has announced its plans several times to increase exports to Hong Kong shark fin, which are considered a delicacy.

As we learned from official sources, such categorical measures taken in order to maintain a significant population of sharks that are alive, “landmarks” Bahamas. Many snorkellers come here just to participate in a very extreme kind of rest – “diving with the sharks.” It should be noted that the Bahamas – not the first state ban on its territory, catching sharks. In 2010, a similar bill was approved in Honduras in early 2011 – in the Maldives and Palau archipelago, and in June the Mexican government banned the catching of sharks during the spawning season – that is, every year from May to August.

The teachers are absolutely sure that it will become the diving medicine that will help young people overcome illness.

John Harris confined to a wheelchair since 2010 – that’s when he fell from off-road motorcycle and broke several lumbar vertebrae. The accident occurred during an amateur tournament, and since then the guy’s parents have used every opportunity to improve the condition of her son. And the best option was found.

In the diving school “Dayvhert” in a special class for people with disabilities, the youth completes the course for novice divers and dive performs with her sister Ashley. “We have no doubt that diving will help restore the health of John, – said the head with confidence in the Illinois School of Jim Elliot – Because it is due to diving confidence felt dozens of our other students.”

It is very interesting for both beginners and experienced divers for the flora and fauna of the Red Sea. When covered here you can see beautiful coral reefs, as well as many varieties of rare enough marine life: fish, clown, reef sharks, moray eels and much more.
In addition, in the waters of Sharm el-Sheikh, visitors can explore the place of accident, from small wrecks to motorcycles and even cars.

In the Egyptian resort town there are many good diving club, where everyone can be trained, to make the very first dive and get certified. Authors Portal also argue that in the future, the Sharm el-Sheikh will take an even more prominent position in the popularity rating among the world’s scuba diving resorts.

Today Chris Krumlov told readers of one of the largest portals on the diving work, some of the secrets of his success, as well as the recent series saw the light of underwater photos, entitled “Monitoring the mermaid.”

More recently, the famous photographer was one of the leading authors of the advertising campaign for a new digital camera “Hesselblad,” designed specifically for shooting underwater. It is with this camera and was made a thematic series of images, “Observation of a mermaid.” These photos – real masterpieces, as shooting under water requires special skill, care and sensitivity. “I developed these skills over the years – says the photographer. – Specially constructed volume pool near my home in Virginia, and, of course, worked on the “open air underwater.” In the near future photographer – a new, impressive series of underwater photographs. However, the subject of future work master, of course, keeps a secret

Under the guidance of an underwater photographer, one of the most famous in the world, and an experienced diver Damian Sivero group of “advanced” divers will travel to the shores of Australia, where in the depths of the Coral Sea will be arranged on the photography of sharks.

As the organizers of the expedition, participants will have the latest tadvances in geotextiles and the opportunity to admire the most beautiful coral in the world, a unique coral formation -the Great Barrier Reef, which stretches along the coast of Australia more than 2000 kilometers, and see the North coral wall height of more than a kilometer. This wall is decorated with colorful coral trees that can be seen for hours.

There are hundreds of varieties of marine life and coral area in the North Wall “patrol” a few species of sharks, including rare and fairly. That they will be the main object of attention of participants of the expedition, which promises to be one of the most exciting events next year in the world of diving.

The fact that these waters are not only natural but also artificial coral reefs that create the most enthusiastic divers, associates and members of the diving clubs.

For example, most recently in the waters near the city of Jacksonville have been created over sixty man-made coral reef. Such large-scalework was done by activists of amateur associations, “Jackson ofshour sports club phishing” and “Jacksonville skubanauts resetch note riff.” Thus, the divers managed to increase the population of the underwater inhabitants – now there are tens of new species of fish, shellfish, lobsters, crabs, shrimp, oysters and many other representatives of marine life. As the creators of artificial reefs, hard work is already producing results: the richness and beauty of local flora and fauna can attract hundreds of new Florida diving tourists.

Preparation is carried out by divers international systems – PADI & CMAS.

Courses PADI:

OPEN WATER DIVER

Course PADI Open Water Diver – the most popular course in the world of scuba diving. Open Water Diver – the first level of certification PADI – this is your ticket to the underwater world of adventure. Course includes academic training, practical skills in the limited water (pool) and scuba diving in open water, all under the instructor PADI. Since the foundation of this course – you get the skills you’ll spend so much time to obtain a certificate, for what period you have mastered this course.
Necessary conditions for certification: None
Minimum age: 15 years (10 years Certification – Junior)
Minimum Open Water Training: four dives (optional – swimming and snorkelling)

The purpose of Open Water Diver course is to provide students with basic knowledge and skills they need to safely get to experience the surrounding underwater environment and, ultimately, an independent dive. The initial training phase, open-water based on the development of skills and experience in a progressively increasing depths. All listed skills are designed to be logical, realistic and converted to practical situations diving. Approximately one third of the entry-level training includes help students acquire knowledge and skills needed to start diving safely. This academic training consists of five modules. Since the PADI modular approach is a modern system of learning, the academic portion is designed to be much wider than a series of lectures.

Skills and their sequence in a modular course limited water PADI differs from many traditional training courses scuba divers. Skills and how they follow each other, have been carefully designed to achieve maximum repetition and ensure a high probability of success. Another important principle of training to a limited water or swimming pool – realism. This configuration helps ensure that students are adequately prepared, and reduces stress, which can sometimes occur in more traditional courses.
All classroom and at limited water only serve to prepare the diver to act, how to behave in open water. Phase of training in open water, which consists of 4 dives, the most important part of the course. This is the part in which students apply what learned in class and to a limited water (pool), and that learning to deal with the actual conditions, problems and environmental diver.

After successfully completing this course you will receive a certificate PADI Open Water Diver. It is an international identity card – your ticket to the underwater organization and resorts, the possibility of renting and purchasing scuba equipment, continuing education programs like PADI Advanced Open Water scuba and specialties. This is just the beginning.

ADVANCED OPEN WATER DIVER

What makes your pulse quickened? What ignites your imagination? Course PADI Advanced Open Water will interest anyone.
Necessary conditions of certification: certified Open Water Diver PADI or equivalent
Minimum age: 15 years (12 years Certification – Junior)
Minimum Open Water Training: 5 dives (2-a fundamental and third sample)

Course PADI Advanced Open Water Diver program is included in the Advanced Open Water PADI and provides a beginner’s scuba diving experiences added. Program Advanced Open Water PADI offers students a variety of underwater tasks that help them to further explore the underwater environment, and improve their capabilities as divers. Advanced Open Water program does not make the student a professional scuba diver, but allows him to understand that he can offer more specialized diving. Course PADI Advanced Open Water Diver is designed to be comfortable, enjoyable and practical for students.

Academic training begins with a test “Scuba Tune Up”, required for a preliminary assessment of basic knowledge of diving. The test can be given orally. Upon completion of the test is considered one of his post. This is necessary in order to provide the student with knowledge necessary for safe navigation under water.

To assess the basic skills of diving, it is recommended but not required, that students were assessed skills in “paddling pool.” Predotsenka done when a student has an equivalent certificate of Open Water Diver PADI trained somewhere else. We recommend passage of the training dives number 4 and number 5 to participate in any Advanced Training.

All students passing Course PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, conducted two major dive. Basic dipping acquaint students with the basic rules of serious diving and include:

1. Underwater orientation (a combination of movement with a compass and a compass)

2. Deep dive (for “UNIOR” limited depth 21 meters.)

Three of the five dives are considered as random. They may be offered or instructor selects students from the following list:

· Night dive (recommended)

· High altitude dive

· Dive boat

· Dive with the study of underwater flora and fauna

· Immersion in a dry diving suit

· Multilevel dive

· Dive with the search and the rise of

· Immersion in the drift

· Dive wreck

· Underwater photography

· Dive with a perfect performance buoyancy

· Underwater videography

Prior to execution core or elective dives performed a theoretical test on each dive.

It does not matter, only that you have received certification or have hundreds of logged dives, PADI Advanced Open Water program gives you the confidence, skills and experience to make your dives more enjoyable.

Progress in the PADI System Together with the other courses, each of your PADI Advanced Open Water immersion may be taken in other specialized courses PADI (at the discretion of your instructor). When you have completed the program of PADI Advanced, you will have the first dive for each of the five special underwater courses. With five certified in specialties and PADI Rescue Diver course you have the opportunity to earn a rating of PADI Master Scuba Diver – the most prestigious, available in ratings with PADI and who is not a course.

Emergency First Response

(First Aid)

Course EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE (EFR) – a basic training course with assistance. CPR – cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other skills of health care are collected in a single eight-hour course.
Necessary conditions for certification: None
Minimum age: none
Minimal training in open water: none

RESCUE DIVER

Course PADI Rescue Diver – a serious and useful item for the prevention and management of emergency situations. Before that there was no relevance to your training and preparation of your partner; Rescue Diver course will teach you to make your diving safer and more pleasant for others.

You have passed the initial and “advanced” levels of training, have a lot of registered diving. During the PADI Rescue Diver course you will learn how to anticipate, prevent and control the extreme situation when diving. You some practice in applying your knowledge and skills to help a tired swimmer to control possible unexpected behavior, then it is unlikely that there could be problems that you can not cope.

Emergency First Response course teaches first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), and is a prerequisite for learning on the course Rescue Diver. You are learning activities during the accident so that you can apply the skills of first aid and CPR is in diving. When you have completed PADI Rescue Diver course you will be able, qualified first aid regardless of the location of an accident (in water and on land).

DIVEMASTER

Rating “Divemaster” does not denote a particular specialty diver, as opposed to, for example, ratings of “Rescue Diver”, “Night Diver,” “cave diver”, etc. And you can not use a specific feature for this rating, since this rating is very versatile. But one line call is still possible. This feature – the responsibility. Responsibility for the people responsible for planning, responsible for orientation and responsibility for security. In other words, a rating of “Divemaster” – the first and most important step towards an informed within the scope of professionalism.

Prerequisites

Historically, in the process of preparing divemaster focused on his skills to save lives. However, in accordance with the standards of PADI rescue skills are prerequisite, but because Divemaster candidate must already possess them. In other words, in order to be able to exercise program divemaster, a candidate must:
be a certified diver – a lifeguard
have at least 20 logged dives
must be at least 18 years.

Other prerequisites are not so obvious and easily definable. In particular, the candidate must have the psychological maturity and emotional stability. There should also be some physical stamina and ability to swim at a level significantly higher than the average diver.

Review training program

Training course is aimed at achieving the following goals:

1. To teach the candidate to organize, conduct and carry out supervision of all types of diving, based both on shore and by boat.

2. To teach the candidate to effectively act as a certified assistant instructor PADI.

3. To develop the theoretical background of the candidate in the field of diving to a level corresponding instructor.

4. Focus on the candidate prepare for the fact that in the future to become an instructor PADI.

Every year in early May Zyriansky island near Tomsk rally held submarine Tomsk region. During those 4-5 days are various competitions between clubs such as football, the technical relay (the ability to work with underwater snaryagoy), tourist relay race, etc. Well, of course, evening gatherings around the campfire, playing guitar, singing.
In the summer, after the opening of the season on the island Zyriansky begin trips to the nearest lake and Kuryu. Carried out various actions, together with the Ministry of Emergency Situations and without them, for treatment of urban lakes (Naiad – oversees the White Lake), and coastal bathing Kuryi zones and, of course, dive for fun.

In July, are long trips on the lake. Ingol, Lake. Baikal, the Black Sea.
During the school year are training in the pool, where the familiarization with the equipment, initial training before diving in open water. Twice a year there Interdojo competitions in swimming pools.
In the winter, held under ice diving, as it is able to observe in the photographs

Few More:

In organizing the ice diving is the two groups. The first group goes through the ice, while the second insures you upstairs. So take care not only about themselves, loved ones. Remember that people are not sturdy ice. Try to provide them with warm boots, preferably with studded soles, life jacket, mittens or gloves. After a thorough briefing. Remember that in their hands not just a safety end, and your relationship with the surface, your pointer to the path in the air.

Ice diving at the same time with the beauty and thrills has a strong psychological stress. When the educational or training dives under the ice, make sure that your partner has the necessary experience and qualifications to carry out such a dive. It is important to your inner psychological state of the Badi. If a person does not have the necessary experience, it is possible psychological breakdown in an irregular situation under water, and inability to appear on the surface can lead to an uncontrollable panic and negative consequences. Therefore, careful instruction, self study, discussion of possible non-standard situations will allow you and your buddy to make diving safer. Do not ignore the mandatory requirements. Do everything, even the smallest binding recommendations on equipment, gear and ensure their own safety.

Carefully follow the testing and mutual testing equipment. Remember to check the features of equipment in cold air. Check the completeness of the primary and standby equipment.

Your comrades in the group to ensure always help you to put on a heavy equipment and safely perform entry into the water. Remember that you are on a slippery surface nahodetes ice at you a lot of cargo and back-up equipment. Do not hesitate to ask for help on the ice in a group of software. Nasty fall or injury can not just cancel your upcoming dive, but in the worst case delay for a long time thereafter. Once again I repeat for the group and to ensure partner transmitted and received by the end of a safety signal. Make sure that everything is ready to begin diving and quietly enter the water the most injury-way. The easiest option is probably the one that will not allow the spray and do not flood the space around maynovoe water. I prefer to slide in Maine from a sitting position.

If you have an experienced partner zdravomyslyaschiy, it will not make a giant step on your head and do the same, safe entry into the water. No need to rush at once to sink. Check again whether the insurance is not confused the end, take, pick up the correct amount of cargo. Remember that a dry suit, the cold water and under-ice diving will require a larger quantity of goods than usual.

Why do I bring a focus on surface preparation and verification? In the under-ice diving, if you are negligent attitude to regulations and standards, you risk not only spoil your dive, but the risk of his life and that of his partner. Therefore, training should always be careful and unhurried. If you have forgotten that one of the necessary equipment and supplies, it is best not to risk it and put an immersion in next time.

And the beginning of the dive. Look up. Surprise and delight, from which pure water can be in our lake. Then come back and you’ll hear delight your friends, who stood on the ice, saw the light of lamps under water at depths of 12-15 meters. Water clarity is really amazing. Another would be a bit of sunshine and we could say that we in the Red Sea. In any case, transparency is not worse than in the Black Sea and Mediterranean. Gradually gaining depth. Turn on the lights, but they almost do not need. Visibility at 5 plus. There’s just the sunlight. We pass by familiar landmarks, and go out on a flooded bus. Now, with the clear water can be seen that it is covered with particles is not mud, and then some peat and algae. Light in the middle canopy. Now we can say about it and its light is in sight. We hear the twitching of a safety end. Conditioned signals. All right? Answer: yes. Again, the signal-etched almost all insurance halyard. Reply-understood. Return. And now, seeing the front of the passing smoothly up the rope, walk 40 yards back to the surface.

A look at the Badi, in fact, as always Olympian calm, a sign of okay, and an indication of the direction of motion. Yes, I understand Okay back. Gradually decreases and the depth we have already seen standing on the ice and Alain Daniel Novakivskogo Garastey. Our group insurance and welfare. We rise, we show that all is well and ask permission to sit down a little under Main. After hitting into the water, so do not want to come out of it. I looked at the computer. The water temperature 4. Dive time 28 minutes, the maximum depth of 15 meters. All right.

But, it’s time to go. Already the sun goes down, and guys are already podmerzli on ice. And gather gear, load the car, barbecue grill and go 50 km. home. I and my team-mate Vladimir Horak faces are so happy that the band just above can already see myself there next to us, under water. And surely say, now would we go. We believe. Of course you go.

But to our regret this day ends. A wonderful day of interesting dive

Rescuers recovered the body of water after five hours.

According to the World Health Organization, on the water about 450 die every year thousands of people around the world. More than half of all drowning – those aged 20-25 years, and most of them – the people who knew how to swim.

How do you know that a person is drowning?
We’ve learned that people are drowning in movies and noticeably loud – shouting, waving and splashing with his hands. Real life is not so.

In his article in the American Journal of Coast Guard “Coast Guard’s On Scene” PhD Francesco A. Pia described the so-called instinctive reaction of a drowning man. And this reaction is not the way we think, must look like a drowning man behavior.
Drowning man is simply no time to come up so much that he had enough time to breath and cry.

Hands he did not waving: the person instinctively throws his hands in hand to push off from the water and push the body upward. In addition, as the scholar, with an instinctive reaction drowning man can not control the hand movements.

He physiologically unable to stop the instinctive movement and begin to make meaningful – for example, waving his arms, move to the rescuer or cling to life-saving devices.

Certainly, a drowning man might shout and wave my arms – a state of panic, which precedes the instinctive reaction drowning. But the panic may not be buried just quietly go under water.

Sometimes the surest sign that a person is drowning – is that it does not seem to drowning, says U.S. expert on the Coast Guard Mario Vuitton blog gCapitan.

“It may seem that a person simply goes in the water. Do you want to be sure? Ask if everything is in order. If you answer, then, perhaps, the way it is, and if the answer you will only blank look – you have 30 seconds to save the man. ”

Often, people are drowning due to neglect of safety rules. Often would-be swimmers are swimming and diving, where it is prohibited. The saying “do not know the ford, do not go into the water” here is appropriate in the most literal sense: a person can not cope with the flow and to panic – but it is a sure way to the bottom. Or receives a head injury and neck when jumping into the water. Another proverb says that a drunken man in the water – half-drowned.

Drunk man is poorly controlled their movements, poorly focused. In addition, alcohol blocks sosudosuzhayuschy and vasodilator center in the brain.

Even a good swimmer, having too much, may overestimate their own strength, and water is a presumption does not forgive. So that alcohol and swimming are not compatible. Other Pitfalls in the water – this is hypothermia. If a person gets into the water colder than 10 degrees (in a mountain stream, the temperature is quite possible), then begin to act psychological reactions. A person in a state of shock from immersion in cold water slips his breath, he can not control their movements. This shock can be fatal in itself.

Length of stay safe in the water depends on its temperature. But even at 20 degrees more than 2.5 hours in the water people can not survive. The time spent in water increased gradually better with every race.

This popular entertainment today as diving can also be deadly. Many think that the cost to buy a mask and flippers, and they are fully prepared to master the water element. In the meantime, if time does not float and do not refill the oxygen in the body can lose consciousness and die under the water. And with scuba diving and barotrauma can get – from high blood pressure.

Rules of conduct on the water is not so complicated. Because of the seeming insignificance of their often neglected.

Do not swim for the buoys. Behind them can be places with strong currents, there are walking and boat launches. You do not want to please them under the screws? For the same reason you should not swim in the waves coming from the boats, personal watercraft and boats. Swim buoys for more dangerous because you can not calculate their strength. But if this has already happened and you feel fatigue in the distance from the shore, do not get lost and do not try to swim faster to it – so you can only break out of power. At such a moment to relax on the water, turned over on her back and supporting himself on the water with light movements of the hands and feet.

Precautions need to float on air mattresses: the wind can carry them far from shore and the waves – turn.

Swim better in the morning or evening when there is no danger of overheating. The water temperature should be at least 17-19 degrees in the water is recommended not to exceed 20 minutes.

Sharply to enter or jump into the water after prolonged sun exposure is not necessary – with cooling water comes muscle contraction, and this may lead to heart problems.

The rescue of drowning, as is known, the handiwork of drowning. However, our best in this category simply avoid drowning. We must remember that swimming is only safe in well-equipped beaches where all the dangerous places are marked with appropriate signs, and the rest on the water guarding the workers life-saving stations.