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CLUB MEETING! Calling all divers! - Burger Night with Nick! Tuesday night at 7pm, Eco Dive Club will be joined by SCUBA diving legend Nick Icorn. Nick was at the first SCUBA instructor's class at Scripps Institute in 1953. Since then he played instrumental roles in the formation and growth of the LA County Underwater Instructors Program, NAUI, SSI, YMCA, and PADI. He was a design engineer for early companies like US Divers and Ocean Dynamics. Currently he is the Director of the National Underwater Museum. Nick will be speaking to the Eco Divers about the "Evolution of Diving." He'll talk about helmets and diving bells to today's SCUBA. He'll talk about diving in the military dating back to the Civil War. He share what it was like to be in the first SCUBA class and give you a glimpse of what it was like to be there when our sport began.

NEW DPV Certification Schedule- Get away from the crowds at a dive site and cover distance effortlessly by learning to use a Diver Propulsion Vehicle. You’ll soar through the water like an eagle through the air. In the DPV Specialty Course you’ll learn how to safely operate a DPV so you can cover more area with less effort and explore more of the reef. You’ll get instruction on planning a DPV dive, learn how to avoid and manage particular DPV issues and how to maintain and care for a DPV. After a practice session in the pool, you’ll accompany your on 2 open water dives where you will put what you’ve learned into practice. Beat the crowds and come back to the boat energized! Course & Schedule

NEW FIN! The Next Step in SCUBA Fin Technology: Omega’s The Amphibian - Eco Dive Center is constantly on the lookout for the greatest SCUBA products to complete our line.

Our store is stocked with innovative designs from the leading manufacturers – but we are always willing to reach out and bring you the next big thing… or fin, as it may be. Eco Dive Center will now be carrying Omega’s Amphibian fin. The Amphibian is a revolutionary design that makes moving in fins, entries and exits, and the rest of your diving easier and more fun. When getting geared up – whether at the beach or on a boat – the fin blade folds up against your shin. You can walk around unencumbered by the fins with no fear of falling and no need to do an entry with your fins in your hands. As you make your first kicks, the blades unfold and lock in place and you have a great fin with good thrust and comfort. When your dive is over, a simple motion with your foot and the blades fold back up. You can walk up the ladder or out of the water with your fins still on.

No more fins lost to the big waves that knock them out of your hands.
No more bruised shins from kicking the ladders in the great fin release struggle.
No more tripping on the boat deck.
No more drifting from the boat trying to take off your fins at the ladder.

This might just be the end of the figure four and awkwardly leaning on your dive buddy in full gear. Come by Eco Dive Center and try out the American-made Omega. Amphibian fins for yourself! For a demonstration of the Amphibian Fins, check out: click... COOL VIDEO! or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ses5LXj4KI

NEW DrySuit Product! Bare Drysuits coming. As low as $700.00 w/LIFETIME Warrenty. You can get the suits in a wide size selection for both men and women. Practically a custom suit for half the price of other drysuits on the market. And Bare Drysuits come with a lifetime warranty that is for the life of the suit – so you’ll have a great suit to pass down to your kids when they get into diving!

Light And Motion Products - Light And Motion is one of the most respected names in underwater imaging. Their still and video camera housings and underwater light systems are renowned as being reliable and durable. Come into the shop and talk to us about Light And Motion and enter a whole new world of underwater imaging. See L&M Products

Scuba Signals Go to our website and check out the new and improved Diver Signals page (but still under construction). Communication underwater can be a challenge, especially when everyone isn’t on the same page so to speak. When you and your buddy don’t use the same signals it’s like 2 people who speak different languages trying to have a conversation. Review the signals we’ve illustrated and avoid the confusion. Diver Signals

Free Nitrox Fills Become a Nitrox certified diver & buy a any dive computer at Eco Dive Center and get free Nitrox fills for life. You’ve heard about the advantages of Nitrox from your buddies and dive professionals, but you still haven’t signed up for the Enriched Air/Nitrox Specialty. Here’s another reason to take the class. When you take the Enriched Air/Nitrox course at Eco, you’ll get free Nitrox fills for life. Eco Dive Center banks the popular 32% and 36% blends so we always have it ready to go. Nitrox Course & Schedule

Group Trip to Fiji - November 2008 Who needs the hassles of Thanksgiving, dry turkey and bland pumpkin pie when you can have the tropics, big underwater wildlife, a great group of dive friends and all the kava you can stomach? Just call to place deposit, grab your passport and pac your bags. Top rated diving, all meals, airfare with no stops, rooms, taxes, transfers, boat dives and amazing beaches. All Inclusive $2950.00 Check Out The Resort on YouTube

Advanced Dive Trips with Eco Dive Center- Did you know Eco Dive Center runs special trips for advanced divers only? These trips will take you to some of the most exciting dive spots in Southern California like the Oil Rigs (next trip on March 1), Farnsworth Banks (next trip on May 11) and the wrecks of San Diego (next trip on February 24). We take a lighter load than usual so you'll have more room for all your equipment and you'll be guarenteed there are no beginning students on board. We ask that you have an Advanced Open Water certification or higher, have experience diving deep or in current with an instructor or divemaster, and we require proof of DAN accident insurance (or equivalent). If you aren't quite ready for one of these trips, we also offer a number of Specialties like the Deep Diver or Wreck Diver training that will prepare you for these exciting adventures.

You can see all of the special Advanced Diver trips on a special schedule at: http://www.ecodivecenter.com/boatschedule/advancedGrab

Grab your sweetie, domestic partner or a friend with benefits for a 2-for-1 Valentine's Day Special
Eco Dive Center is offering a Valentine's Day 2-for-1 special on the February 17th Island Time to Catalina. You'll each get up to 2 dives with airfills and lunch included and still get back in time for a memorable romantic dinner! Give us a call to book your spot before this trip sells out.