PHIL RUDIN
Contributor
While it took much longer than anticipated all of the Photo Contest prizes have been awarded.
This year the photo contest has been replaced with the South Florida Dive Master of the Year contest, Florida Dive Show -
You can go to the attached link to vote.
This will be Dive Chronicles-Dive Shows fifth annual Florida Dive Show. Dive Chronicles has produced twelve CONSUMER dive shows in less than five years in five different states, California, Florida, Georgia (now suspended), Texas and Washington DC.
The idea of our shows is to keep as many people involved in diving as possible and to introduce a new generation to diving. It also gives local dive shops and dive vessels that can't or are not interested in attending the larger shows a way to meet new clients and old friends.
While DEMA (an industry show closed to consumers), Our World Underwater, Beneath the Sea, Scuba Show, North-West dive Show and others produce one show a year with most doing so for over twenty years, we are averaging four dive shows a year in smaller regional markets. Over 75% of our clients are repeat exhibitors and many have done every show in all five states. While we don't get the large attendance associated with the shows listed above our paid attendance has increased more than thirty percent year-over-year during the past two years in a very slow economy. Our exhibitors frequently remark that they are able to spend more time with quality show attendees resulting in a higher sales to expense ratio compared to some larger shows.
We at Dive Chronicles-Dive Shows are avid divers and our interest is in seeing the sport of diving thrive and grow in a changing world. We support all of the consumer shows listed above and hope that divers throughout the country will continue to introduce their non-diving friends into the sport which we all love so much.
Phil Rudin
Dive Chronicles-Senior Photographer
This year the photo contest has been replaced with the South Florida Dive Master of the Year contest, Florida Dive Show -
You can go to the attached link to vote.
This will be Dive Chronicles-Dive Shows fifth annual Florida Dive Show. Dive Chronicles has produced twelve CONSUMER dive shows in less than five years in five different states, California, Florida, Georgia (now suspended), Texas and Washington DC.
The idea of our shows is to keep as many people involved in diving as possible and to introduce a new generation to diving. It also gives local dive shops and dive vessels that can't or are not interested in attending the larger shows a way to meet new clients and old friends.
While DEMA (an industry show closed to consumers), Our World Underwater, Beneath the Sea, Scuba Show, North-West dive Show and others produce one show a year with most doing so for over twenty years, we are averaging four dive shows a year in smaller regional markets. Over 75% of our clients are repeat exhibitors and many have done every show in all five states. While we don't get the large attendance associated with the shows listed above our paid attendance has increased more than thirty percent year-over-year during the past two years in a very slow economy. Our exhibitors frequently remark that they are able to spend more time with quality show attendees resulting in a higher sales to expense ratio compared to some larger shows.
We at Dive Chronicles-Dive Shows are avid divers and our interest is in seeing the sport of diving thrive and grow in a changing world. We support all of the consumer shows listed above and hope that divers throughout the country will continue to introduce their non-diving friends into the sport which we all love so much.
Phil Rudin
Dive Chronicles-Senior Photographer
