Paul Boissinot, president of the FQAS (Quebec Underwater Federation), congratulates Darcy Kieran for his election, earlier this week, to the Board of Directors of DEMA. DEMA (“Diving Equipment and Marketing Association”) is the international scuba diving trade association, headquartered in San Diego, California. Darcy Kieran is a Canadian recreational scuba diving instructor trainer (PADI Course Director) and tech diving instructor trainer (TecDeep & TecTrimix) as well as a DAN Examiner and EFR Examiner. He owns Total Diving, a Montreal-based dive shop, and Beuchat Canada, the Canadian distributor of Beuchat scuba diving, freediving, snorkeling and spearfishing diving gear. He’s the first Quebec representative to be elected to the board of this international trade association. Complete results for the 2012 DEMA Board of Directors election are presented on the BODI: The Business of Diving Institute blog.

Paul Boissinot, president of the FQAS (Quebec Underwater Federation), congratulates Darcy Kieran for his election, earlier this week, to the Board of Directors of DEMA.

DEMA (“Diving Equipment and Marketing Association”) is the international scuba diving trade association, headquartered in San Diego, California.

Darcy Kieran is a Canadian recreational scuba diving instructor trainer (PADI Course Director) and tech diving instructor trainer (TecDeep & TecTrimix) as well as a DAN Examiner and EFR Examiner. He owns Total Diving, a Montreal-based dive shop, and Beuchat Canada, the Canadian distributor of Beuchat scuba diving, freediving, snorkeling and spearfishing diving gear.

He’s the first Quebec representative to be elected to the board of this international trade association.

Complete results for the 2012 DEMA Board of Directors election are presented on the BODI: The Business of Diving Institute blog.

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Canadian skier Sarah Burke dead at 29 :( nationalpostsports: Canadian skier Sarah Burke dead at 29Sarah Burke, the skiing star who was badly injured in a training accident in Utah last week, has died from her injuries, the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association announced on Thursday.The Midland, Ont. native was in an induced coma after suffering a serious injury during a training run at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort on Jan. 10. She was 29.“As the result of Sarah’s fall, she suffered a ruptured vertebral artery, one of the four major arteries supplying blood to the brain. The rupture of this artery led to a severe intracranial hemorrhage, which caused Sarah to go into cardiac arrest on the scene. Emergency personnel responded and CPR was administered on the scene during which time she remained without a pulse or spontaneous breathing,” the association said in a statement from Burke’s publicist.While it appeared there was brainstem function after the injuries, subsequent tests showed Burke had  “sustained severe irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest.” Photo: Danny Moloshok/Reuters

Canadian skier Sarah Burke dead at 29 :(

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Canadian skier Sarah Burke dead at 29
Sarah Burke, the skiing star who was badly injured in a training accident in Utah last week, has died from her injuries, the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association announced on Thursday.

The Midland, Ont. native was in an induced coma after suffering a serious injury during a training run at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort on Jan. 10. She was 29.

“As the result of Sarah’s fall, she suffered a ruptured vertebral artery, one of the four major arteries supplying blood to the brain. The rupture of this artery led to a severe intracranial hemorrhage, which caused Sarah to go into cardiac arrest on the scene. Emergency personnel responded and CPR was administered on the scene during which time she remained without a pulse or spontaneous breathing,” the association said in a statement from Burke’s publicist.

While it appeared there was brainstem function after the injuries, subsequent tests showed Burke had  “sustained severe irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest.” Photo: Danny Moloshok/Reuters

(via nationalpost)

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