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| Sea Creature Contest # 369- NAME THAT FISH! |
Question: Name that fish hiding behind the Tube Sponge.
Prize: Free Rental for Weekend OR ScubaPro Backpack (7)
Answers: Must email answers and choice of prize to scuba@ecodivecenter.com and you must include you phone number.
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| Wienie Roast with Special Guest Speaker 7pm TOMORROW |
 You're Invited!
Don't let the killer viz fool you: we're not in the tropics. Southern California's great diving - diverse marine life and stellar kelp forests - are a direct product of our temperate water. As the air gets a bit of chill and the pumpkin lattes creep back in to Starbucks, we get the early reminders that there is a temperature drop coming soon. Don't sit out an entire season of diving just because the water gets cooler.
Dry suit diving will keep you in the water all year long and the different choices in styles can keep you comfortable in the Puget Sound or tropical waters of the Caribbean. While your family is out Christmas shopping, slip on your dry suit and sneak in a dive or two. Local favorite DUI - a San Diego-based manufacturer - will be presenting the benefits, features, and designs of dry suits. You won't want to miss this expert presentation by John Boyer, Western Regional Representative for DUI.
The meeting starts at 7:00 PM tomorrow (Tuesday, October 6) at Eco Dive Center, but come a little early to swap scuba stories and meet some dive buddies.
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Southern California's Pinnacle! Farnsworth Banks on October 10!
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 It's been said a lot: Farnsworth Banks tops the list of Southern California divers' favorites. This deep pinnacle features some of the best visibility, impressive views, and large fish found on any dive. The pinnacle - found deeper than 55 feet - is an impressive structure on its own, but because it lies almost 2 miles off shore of Catalina it is a popular spot for larger pelagics. Farnsworth is also one of the only divable homes purple hydrocoral, a colorful and interesting coral growing here in California.
Because of the depths and possible currents, Farnsworth Banks is only accessible by experienced divers with a minimum Advanced Open Water certification, so it's a great place to put your training to work. It is also a popular place to earn your Deep Diver Specialty certification, so be sure to ask when you book your spot! In the Deep Diver Certification at Farnsworth, your instructor will train you and take you to 130 feet - the limit of recreational diving.
This is one of our most popular trips - especially during the premiere conditions of October Diving - so book your spot today! For $139 you'll get 2 dives aboard the Island Time, including air fills and meals, and will be the first dive boat out to this popular site. Call (310) 398-5759 or go to boat schedule to book your spot.
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Dive Longer and Safer... for Less!
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A dive computer is one of the most important pieces of diving equipment - extending bottom times while making profiles safer and easier to understand - but it can also be one of the most intimidating. This fall, Eco Dive Center will help you understand the importance of a dive computer while increasing the value? How?
Until December 15, Eco Dive Center is offering an instant rebate of $150 on Sunnto's most popular computers: the D4, D6, D9 or the new Cobra 3! These reliable and innovative computers - some of the most popular in the industry - are now more affordable and accessible. And, mix-in your standard students discount (10% off anything in the store when enrolled in any class) and you can save hundreds of dollars.
A new dive computer will improve your diving, benefit your underwater activities, and extend your bottom times at depth. Put one to work for you!
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| What Next. |
 Two days in a pool: done. Your hair smells like chlorine, the carpet in your car is damp but clean. Two early mornings on a boat: done. You've master the crossing over to the islands and perfected using a bathroom while swaying side to side. Fifty pounds of gear on your back is no challenge, with the rewards buried deep below, motivating every giant stride. You're a certified scuba diver, prepared to explore the blue waters of Southern California and beyond.
You've completed your Advanced Open Water certification and been guided into deeper water and shown the mysteries of the ocean at night. You've practiced your navigation and swam squares and circles through the sand, dodging stalks of giant kelp and controlling the distractions of curious fish and skittish rays. You are diving. You are making buddies, looking for local trips, and slipping into the ocean at the beach whenever you can.
In my experience, you'll be asking yourself, "What's next?" The classroom experience has been controlled. Your buddies have been found for you. As a novice diver, you look around you for answers. As you seek the title of "experienced diver" you'll need to look within for your answers, especially to that nagging question, "What's next?"
For the diver with a couple dozen dives in their log, whose memory can paint the coast of Catalina, there exists a search for direction. Much of her diving has been driven by goals and objectives laid out by others: her first instructors, the divemasters, the experienced dive buddies. But she wants to control her own dive destiny.
Many divers will chart a course that lasts for years. Some, driven by leadership and content to set others eyes on the ocean will become dive professionals. Good instructors and divemasters are hard to come by, and the training intense, but the rewards for quality professionals can be profound. This month, you can start on that path with your Rescue or Divemaster course. In the coming weeks the Instructor Development Course, an intense program preparing you for the exam and a career of teaching, will begin. Is this what is next for you?
Maybe you want to become a task-oriented diver pursuing photography, deep or night diving, or even enjoying your first Lobster Season in Southern California. There is a lot to learn once you've mastered the essentials of the Open Water and Advanced Open Water courses. The specialty programs are designed to give you exposure to new diving activities you may never have considered under the supervision and guidance of an experienced instructor. And some the specialty programs available give you unique experience and training not found elsewhere - including certifications in beach diving, kayak diving, or environmental conservation programs.
This month's newsletter is full of opportunities for you to discover, "What's next?" Whether it is advanced diving trips to the San Diego Wrecks or Farnsworth, professional courses, or specialties and experiences we don't offer in the busy summer months, check out what is available and get your answer.
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Deep, Dark, and Full of Adventure! It's Another Wreck Weekend!
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 Maybe swimming through and exploring around wrecks should be your niche? Eco Dive Center is pulling together another Wreck Weekend on October 24 and 25. Two dives a day and hanging out with your new buddies in San Diego is only made better by viz that can reach 60 to 80 feet, and the 350-foot long HMCS Yukon lying on the ocean bottom.
Wreck Weekend is also the time to learn how to safely penetrate a wreck and get that experience with an Eco Dive Center instructor. Call Eco at (310) 398-5759 to sign-up for Wreck Weekend and the Wreck Diver Specialty Course.
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Dive Smarter and Safer: Earn your Advanced Rescue Certification
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 Often referred to as the most rewarding and challenging diver certification, Rescue Diver is a certification that will boost your confidence and skills as a diver, and challenge you as a person. This course is spread over a few evenings and the weekend of October 24 and 25, will start you thinking of yourself as a Dive Buddy, and not just a diver.
Add in the First Aid and CPR program offered through Emergency First Response, and you will have the tools to participate in safe diving. This is the most important class that you can take as a diver, and will prepare you for a multitude of problems that can arise both underwater and at the surface making you a much more relaxed and confident diver.
FREE EFR/CPR Certification worth $85
FREE Diver Emergency Management Provider Certification worth $150
Both free along side your Rescue Certification in October Only
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| Photo Guru at Eco Divers November 8th 7PM |
 Earning a Master of Fine Arts Degree in photography and video from UCLA Rod also studied at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Before becoming a PADI MSDT Instructor in 1992, Rod worked in the television industry as an editor, graphics designer, and director. Rod's images have appeared in Scuba Diving Magazine (US), Sport Diver (US), Asian Diver, ScubaDiver Australasia, Diving Adventure Magazine, Fathoms, and Unterwasser. Rod was formerly digital editor for Fathoms Magazine |
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Check out Eco Divers participating in Coastal Clean-Up Day last month. Stay tuned for future clean-up and Project AWARE activities.
Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest on HALLOWEEN! Eco Divers vs. Dive Vets. Call the shop for more information.
Become a world traveler! Eco Dive Center's April Thailand trip is coming up. Cozumel and Palau in the works.
Try before you buy! Our next DEMO DAY with Aqua Lung is aboard the Spectre on October 18.
Stay down longer. Put that new computer to work. More time on the wrecks. Go NITROX! Wednesday, October 14. |
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Refer a friend to Eco Dive Center for lessons and you get $100 store credit. That's right!
Get your co-workers, friends, family or even that smelly homeless guy in the alley. For every person that earns their Open Water Diver rating you get a 100 buckaroos! Your friends won't even know you're earning $100 EcoDollars off of them. Get on it!
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| Offer Expires: October 31st |
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