Scuba in Canada

Paul Boissinot, president of the FQAS (Quebec Underwater...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:12:36 -0500

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.

The Canadian great outdoors. The best!

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:21:00 -0500

The Canadian great outdoors. The best!

Canadian skier Sarah Burke dead at...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:42:20 -0500

Canadian skier Sarah Burke dead at 29 :(

nationalpostsports:

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

Loss of marine archeologist could be ‘catastrophic,’ says Ontario union

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:04:52 -0500

Loss of marine archeologist could be ‘catastrophic,’ says Ontario union: Ontario is rich in wrecks...

life: A polar bear swims underwater at a Zoo in St-Felicien,...

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:00:00 -0500

life:

A polar bear swims underwater at a Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec. Canada is home to some 15,000 of the estimated 20,000 polar bears in the world.

2011 Pictures of the Year

Wanna go do some wreck diving in Lake Laberge? That's just North of Whitehorse!

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:15:51 -0500

Wanna go do some wreck diving in Lake Laberge? That's just North of Whitehorse!: News article from...

Lake Erie Shipwreck Needs Rescuing... On Land!

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:03:00 -0500

Lake Erie Shipwreck Needs Rescuing... On Land!: Sad story for wreck diving fans! Why didn’t...

2011 Canadian Shipwrecks Symposium: April 2 in Welland, Ontario

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:17:00 -0500

The Niagara Divers’ Association will present its 17th Annual Shipwrecks Symposium,...

Life in the Shallows of Lake Champlain (via nwwmark on You...

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:39:51 -0500

Life in the Shallows of Lake Champlain (via nwwmark on You Tube)

This is about Lake Champlain in the USA, but… It’s right South of the Canadian border! Some of the information in that video and the underwater images are very similar to what we see in Canada.

Very interesting information about fresh water wild life.

Canadian Consumer Shows for Scuba Diving

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:50:00 -0500

Would you like to go to a dive show? DAN, Divers Alert Network, lists many reasons for a scuba diver...

PADI Member Forum in Montreal: Now Adapted to Quebec Requirements

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:36:00 -0500

PADI Member Forum in Montreal: Now Adapted to Quebec Requirements: totaldiving: Every year, a PADI...