TekDive USA... May 2014

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Our full-feature website is almost ready! Just collecting pics and bios from speakers and setting up the registration system. Keep a close eye- we should be live in the next week or so!
 
I sure wish it had a real commercial component. Getting all of the tech friendly liveaboards, shops, training agencies, resorts, day boats, and manufacturers together would attract an audience that it would make it worth going to. Instead, it appears to be the same old talking heads talking about the same old decompression algorithms and discussing the same old stuff.

I'll go diving instead.
 
Frank- did you not get my email inviting you and your company to participate? I will resend, watch for it from a TEKDiveUSA email address.

We are inviting all the technical shops & boats, instructors, students, wannabes, has-beens, will-bes, etc etc. We already have several technical agencies on board and participating, as well as numerous manufacturers coming to exhibit and show off new products and dive resorts and boats coming as well. Many more are contacting us asking to participate. We hope you can make it.

Rest assured not all the presentations will be theoretical algorithm based- we have plenty lined up with real-world useful information, great stories, panel discussions, amazing video and photo and more.

I think most people will find that they won't have a problem finding at least one presentation in each time slot that fits their taste. And we all know that divers love wandering around the booths fondling new equipment, dreaming of upcoming trips and shooting the bull.

Thanks for your comment though, we DO welcome all feedback, positive or negative. We are doing this event for divers after all!




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I didn't Josh, but when I spoke with Roz about it, she explained that the primary focus would be seminars. I replied that I thought that there was room in the industry for a real tech only trade show that had lots of seminars as a component, and a show floor that was open all of the time as another component. I was told that I could have a booth, but the seminars would be the driving force, and the show floor would be closed during seminars and open between seminars. I was shown the floor layout, and it doesn't look like there is much room for too many 10x10 booths, and most of the halls are taken up with seminar rooms.

Currently, as you know, BTS is the techiest show there is, and the training agencies, Boats (especially Northeast wreck boats) and tech driven manufacturers and shops wouldn't miss it. With the tremendous tech presence in Florida (caving in the North, artificial and real wrecks in the south, and the Blue Holes here and in the Bahamas) I really think that a show that "doesn't close for the seminars", but is in addition to the seminars would be well received by the tech community. I personally would not be interested in hearing Richie Kohler talk about the Titanic (Richie is a friend of mine, and lots of folks would be interested in just that) but I'd love to give a presentation about the Dry Tortugas wrecks, the Blue Holes of Cay Sal Bank, Scientific diving (fish and benthic surveys) in the Dry Tortugas, the Ghost fleet of Key West, etc. Those are commercial presentations, designed for an operator to peddle his wares, and there is not a place in the United States that that sort of presentation is welcome, except dive clubs and shop socials.

I was told that TekDive USA was not about that. I spent a fair amount of money sponsoring RB3, and it turns out that RB3 wasn't about that either. Fool me once....
 
We are happy to announce that Dave Conlin, Chief of the National Park Service Submerged Resources Center will be attending TEKDiveUSA.2014 to present on an interesting topic: Dual Sensor Failure at Lake Mead National Recreation Area- Lessons Learned.


This session will discuss the accident from multiple perspectives- planning, training, equipment manufacture, control interface, physiology, operations, and the subsequent investigation, to highlight what went wrong, what went right, and what divers can do in the future to prevent a similar accident from occurring again.


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Another exciting presentation announced for TEKDiveUSA.2014 - Come learn more about the Blue Holes of the Bahamas from Brian Kakuk!


For the last 20 years, The Bahamas Caves Research Foundation has been working with Bahamian governmental agencies and NGOs in bringing to light the amazing underwater/underground world that few in the Bahamas have ever seen....


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And now for a wreck diving presentation. TEKDiveUSA.2014 welcomes another group of speakers.


For nearly two decades, team members feverishly researched and dreamed of exploring the elusive U-550 culminating in two offshore survey trips in 2011 and 2012. On July 23, 2012, near the end of a grueling round-the-clock side scan operation, the final resting place of the Grey Wolf was located in approximately 100 meters of North Atlantic water off the coast of Massachusetts about 70 miles south of Nantucket Island.

Join us for a presentation by team members Joe Mazraani and Bradley Sheard on searching for and exploring the U-550.

Tickets are now on sale: Register Now
 
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Come listen to Phil Short speak about his exciting adventure on the 2013 J2 expedition at TEKDiveUSA.2014, May 17-18, 2014 - Miami, Florida. Phil recently returned from a 3 month expedition to the southern Mexican mountains where as lead diver in a 40+ man team of cave and rope specialists and cave divers he personally spent 45 days underground in 3 separate pushes of 19, 5 and 21 days in duration.

Tickets on sale now! PURCHASE ONLINE HERE

Read more here:
TEKDiveUSA 1000 hours under the earth - J2 Last Bash expedition 2013 » TEKDiveUSA


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