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Historical Meeting Results in Creation of Rebreather Association
PADI and the world’s major CCR manufacturers came together at the DEMA Show in Las Vegas, USA on 17th November to hear PADI’s vision of where rebreather technology may head in the future and to receive an outline of PADI’s new CCR programs due for release in 2011. The Meeting was chaired by Mark Caney - Vice President of Rebreather Technologies (PADI Technical Diving Division). PADI was also represented by other PADI Technical Diving Division Executives including; Terry Cummins (Director Market Development), Karl Shreeves (Director of Decompression Diving) and James Morgan (Director of Advanced Wreck Diving). Pascal Dietrich Technical Consultant at PADI Europe and Jeff Nadler of PADI Americas were also in attendance.
Over 30 executives representing the cream of the world’s CCR manufacturers were present, including AP Diving, Diverite, Dräger, Hollis/Oceanic, KISS, Innerspace Systems, Micropore Inc, Poseidon, Shearwater, Silent Diving, Titan, Revo and VR Technology.
One of the most exciting outcomes of the meeting was the decision by the manufacturers to form the Rebreather Education and Safety Association (RESA) to set a higher degree of cooperation amongst CCR manufacturers. It is intended that this group will also address manufacturing standards and some of the issues that will make their products more appealing to a greater audience.
Date for SITA Evolution 2011 Announced
Evolution 2011, the SITA day for members and the diving trade, will take place on 6th March at Redwood Hotel & Country Club , near Bristol. The programme of events will be announced soon...
06.06.2010. Results of the Election of SITA Executive
The results of the second postal ballot were recorded at the meeting of the SITA executive and at the continuation of the AGM on 6th July 2010.
The vote returned a majority in favour of Vini Howlett, of Aquasport International, who will assume the role of chairman immediately.
The full list of SITA executive committee members is available here. In the meantime, the Exec. committee wishes to thank Tony Marshall, for his all his hard work, standing in to replace the retiring chairman, Kelvin Richards.
