Diving Market Is Changing In The UK
Monday 8 October 2007 5:33 PM
Dear Customer,We have been diving for two decades and teaching now for nearly a decade. Our First Aid experience and abilities are likewise considerable. This is noteworthy given the UK First Aid & Diving markets are changing. We believe that it’s a fun sport and what counts are good ‘high value for money’ Goods and Services. I’m worried by the growing trend to accept cheaper and cheaper training, servicing, lower standard imports or ‘unserviced’ auctioned items for what basically is life support equipment & training. I’m glad the HSE and indeed key market leaders are resisting this by raising the bar. Listen to them; cheap doesn’t always mean good value. We believe in the very best instruction, good locations and a strong culture of safety and careful planning – against a backdrop of being able to do that economically. Our Finance Director keeps a very keen eye on this and ensures we keep on track. Sadly there are a steady run of dive facilities that have gone under recently or indeed have struggled now for the last couple of years. We have been busy developing the business to provide a good set of courses and schedules. This understandably has been tough though. If you are waiting for a course or some dates (or you were a lucky winner of one of the Ordnance Survey Outdoor Show prize), be reassured we value your custom and we are keen to sort out dates with you to get things moving on your training. Please contact either Barbara or myself on 0116 278 7711 and we can get your training sorted at the earliest mutually convenient date. We still believe strongly in offering our scuba training throughout the UK and that it is coastal based, rather than inland site based (unless logistically there is good reason to do so). We still believe our offering of First Aid Training throughout the UK is also right. However, we are keen to listen to you – what do you think we should be doing? We chose to launch a few months back a new website with a framework for a lot of information on the 150 or so courses we can teach, tips, tools and useful information and we are still loading pages to this day !! The website will soon have electronic schedules that allow you to select courses and pre-book them on-line. Soon a useful Dive Trip arrangements/offering from us. We really thank all our customers for their help, support and indeed trust in us – in a highly competitive and changing marketplace. We are aiming to be here for a long time – you will start to see new faces for people working for us both in the facility and indeed teaching our courses. Sincerest thanks from all at ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd, Andrew Dawson-Maddocks, Managing Director.
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