DEMA 08 update - Best in Show

[DiveNav]

Hi,
we just got back from Las Vegas were we had a booth at the DEMA 08 show.

It is a loooooong show for exhibitors; from Tuesday (to assemble booth) to Saturday evening. My feet were killing me!

But the show was very good for us; we had lot of people stopping at our tiny booth. Initially they were perplexed on what our product was … but then when they saw our demonstration of a virtual dive on the Spiegel Grove or the C53 or the dive park in Avalon …. their eyes went wide open.
We had all kind of folks coming over: Instructors/DMs, Dive Operators, Captains, Equipment Manufacturers, travel agencies, educational organizations, press and, last but not least, certification agencies.

Several Instructors really liked the demo of our virtual buddy diving. We plan to release it before the end of the year.

eDiving was even selected by Scuba Gadget as Best in Show in the technology section.

So, we are happy with the results and have lot of works to do to improve further our dive simulator.
We are planning to release the “preliminary” dive sites of the Spiegel Grove and the C53 by mid November.
We are also planning to add the possibility to select “real” equipment … so you can dress up with the gear that you normally use when you dive for good.

Dive Safe, eDive Often

DiveNav Team

[TheUWPhotographer.com]

I stopped by the booth to do my first virtual dive on the C-53 wreck. I've done this dive many times and was blown away by how accurate the virtual dive was.





My buoyancy was all over the place with a couple of uncontrolled ascents and my dive profile looked like the Dow Jones, but it was a heck of a lot of fun. I felt a bit like I did the first time I did an open water dive. I'm sure next time I'll do a lot better.

When will this dive be online?

[drbill]

Congrats, Alberto and crew. In case you didn't see my report elsewhere, vis on the Valiant was a mere 15 ft today. I'll keep an eye out for another good day of vis.

[DiveNav]

Hi Bonnie,
I am glad you liked the C-53

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My buoyancy was all over the place with a couple of uncontrolled ascents and my dive profile looked like the Dow Jones, but it was a heck of a lot of fun.....

like in real life ... it takes some practice to master buoyancy. Did you check if you were properly weighted at the surface?

.....When will this dive be online?

We plan to release beta version of the C-53 by 11/15/2008.

We need more pictures to make it nicer

AM