Jill Heinerth & Wes Skiles diving within an Antarctic iceberg.
It was a fantastic Celebration of Everything Underwater and a great opportunity to DIVE INTO ADVENTURE!
Right here in your own backyard...
Divescapes 2009 brought together divers & underwater sport enthusiasts with dive retailers, travel agents, tourism bureaus, resort and charter operators in Western Canada’s largest Scuba Conference & Exhibition.
When: October 23 & 24, 2009
Where: Royal Executive Inn & Conference Centre, Calgary, AB
SYNOPSIS: Divescapes 2009: submitted by: Connie & David Faas www.davco.cc, We learned so much about diving at Divescapes last weekend! What an experience! The AUC’s Scuba Conference & Travel Show in Calgary was so worth the trip down south. Congratulations Cathie McCuaig, Brian Nadwidny and the AUC for putting on a great show. We learned so much about Canadian diving: the Greenland sharks in Quebec; Beluga whales in Manitoba; Newfoundland shipwrecks, BC artificial wrecks; and the life in a BC kelp forest. We also listened to the coolest stories about Canadians’ adventures in diving – stories about freediving; about diving in and under icebergs, and also tropical diving.
The trade show exhibitors were also great: Calgary dive stores were there; plus freediving; Bill Coltart & Sharon Morgan with dive trips to BC and beyond; Andy Lamb and others with BC dive destinations; and a cool new underwater ‘geocaching’ game – for more information see aquaquest.com as their website is in final development. Clear Lake - near Wainwright will have two of the geocaching destinations to be found. Our favourite seminars: All the seminars and films were very good – fabulous actually! It is hard to pick a favourite, but two that are at the top of the list are Jill Heinerth’s (explorer, photographer, author and pioneering technical diver) and Mandy-Rae & Kirk Krack’s (world record holding freedivers, and educators in courses, movies and documentaries about the ocean planet).
So remember to make plans to attend Divescapes 2011 – in Edmonton – watch for the fall dates, venue and potential speakers to come! It's well worth the effort to attend! The qualitity of speakers who were brought in for Divescapes 2009 was incredible & well worth the cost of the Gold Pass (especially considering it included 2 meals (Friday's VIP Reception and Saturday's Banquet) before Keynote presenter's Film Show.
 Divescapes Prizes: The Gold & Silver ticket pass holders only were eligible for many prizes donated by our generous and supportive sponsors! See the names of the lucky prize winners here!
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