http://www.admdiving.co.uk/ en-gb Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:31 GMT http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/October-2007/Diving-Market-Is-Changing-In-The-UK.aspx http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/October-2007/Diving-Market-Is-Changing-In-The-UK.aspx Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:33:36 GMT 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. http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/August-2007/We-become-a-sponsor-of-Our-World--Underwater-Scholarship-Society-OWUSS.aspx http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/August-2007/We-become-a-sponsor-of-Our-World--Underwater-Scholarship-Society-OWUSS.aspx Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:06:11 GMT ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd proudly became an European Sponsor of the Scholarship programme for up and coming young diving pioneers of our future. The Rolex Our World - Underwater Scholarship Society warmly welcomed the sponsorship of diver training, educational diving books and materials and a personal copy of the NOAA Diving Manual for the European Scholar each year. This prestigous publication is a great start for anyone serious about their future in the diving world. Mr Elvin Leech MBE, VP European of European Operations was pleased with the appointment of ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd and thanked the Managing Director Andrew Dawson-Maddocks for the sponsorship. "We the Directors and Officers of the Scholarship Society, here in Europe, in the USA and in Australia all appreciate very much your generous contribution to the education and furtherance of our Scholars now and for the future." ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd will continue to support and indeed grow our involvement and support to the Scholarship as our own business grows. "I look forward to many years together and helping the future scholars and indeed diving pioneers of tomorrow" says Andrew. The Sponsorship takes the form of an agreed amount of free training in any mix of PADI, DAN, BSAC, and IANTD courses. Any residual amount of sponsorship left may be taken in the form of diving books from our extensive range (122 titles and growing) or indeed in other training crew packs to help with other training elsewhere. At this stage this sponsorship is with the European side of the Scholarship, but ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd are likely to grow this support into the US and Australian sides of the Society in the future. http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/3-year-Technical-Explorer-Apprenticeship-Launch.aspx http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/3-year-Technical-Explorer-Apprenticeship-Launch.aspx Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:39:11 GMT ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd is proud to launch its Technical Apprenticeship to become an Exploration Level Diver. This is a cornerstone launch and paving the way for a more structured way of becoming highly trained and capable of undertaking exploration level diving in the 90msw range. We are structuring this training as a solid programme of lectures, dives, research projects around 6 core IANTD courses. You will undertake a minimum of 24 'field trips' to consolidate and progress your training each of which will be a minimum of 5 technical decompression dives. The final year will be to conduct a third year project from scratch and document this. We will thoroughly immerse you in all of our skills, background knowledge and our own complimentary technical modules to ensure you have the very best skills and capabilities. If you really have a passion for progress, aptitude to learn and really earn your skills to dive extreme depths safely and conducted in a way that really has safety at its heart in all the proceedures for you either as a solo diver or accompanied diver to increase your odds considerably to come home regularly from such, then you really will want to join this training. Entry level will be dive leader/dive master or entry level instructor in any training agency with a miniumum of 250 dives and at least 75 on Nitrox. By the end of this programme you will have 500 dives and you will be at the cusp of being a novice explorer... A worthy target and indeed a highly trained one at that. We will be offering just 9 spaces a year and watch the technical diving area on this web site for more details... http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/Ordnance-Survey-Outdoor-Show-2007.aspx http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/Ordnance-Survey-Outdoor-Show-2007.aspx Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:13:35 GMT ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd was very proud this year to offer Scuba Diving and First Aid Prizes at this prestigious exhibition. "We were pleased to be the first company to do so." said Andrew Dawson-Maddocks, MD of ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd. The company put forward the prizes given the company ethos fits well with the overall goal and objective of the show. A total of three PADI Open Water Diver fully inclusive courses were offered and won. To compliment these a further nine Emergency First Response Ltd Primary and Secondary Care First Aid courses were offered by ADM Diving & Technical Services Ltd - these one day programmes not only meet the requirements of the HSE Appointed Person in the Workplace, but also offer great training for everyone including those in the Outdoors. A total of eight such prizes were won. And if that wasn't enough a further more specialised First Aid programme was offered as a Prize which was the DAN Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) Provider course and the lucky winner will most definately be a great asset to themselves and their employer. Many large Shopping, Concert, Railway and Airport Halls have public access AED's. A real life saver if you can use them to help someone having had a heart attack in those few vital minutes. "We are so pleased to be offering this training to the lucky winners of the prizes", said Andrew. "It was our pleasure to be offering these prizes and we were very humbled by DAN Europe - a Charity no less - decided (without asking) to underpin these prizes and offered the DAN AED Crew pack by way of sponsorship for such a prize". Andrew has sincerely thanked the European Training Manager Guy Thomas for that kind support. Many of these courses are now booked and we will report more on their progress later this year. See you all at the 2008 Ordnance Survey Outdoor Show at the Birmingham NEC. http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/We-Update-the-UK-Shipwreck-Database-and-Index-With-Scapa-Flow-History.aspx http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/We-Update-the-UK-Shipwreck-Database-and-Index-With-Scapa-Flow-History.aspx Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:38:14 GMT We have just updated the UK Shipwreck Database and Index with the long lost positions of the Ships that once where scuttled then savaged in the middle of the last century. > The Kaiser Friedrick Der Grosse > The Grosserkurkfurst > The Priz Regent Luitpold > The Kaiser > The Derfllinger > The Von Der Tann > The Moltke > The Seyblitz We are working on verifying and position fixing (with provenance) the locations of:- > The Hindenburg > The Kaiserin > The Konig Albert & > The Bremse Many of these scours have significant superstructures in - especially masts and lookout/ranging towers. Many still have the large 42"+ Search lights with stunning optics to a level of precision that will still impress today. Our sincerest thanks and due recognition is given to all those like us, who have dived, helped research and explore these fine sites, most of which have been aboard the MV Jean Elaine under the fine skippering and expertese at finding long lost wrecks of Andy Cuthbertson. If you want to dive any of these long lost scours take a look in our Library and look up Andy Cutherbertson in the UK and North European Skippers section of the site and charter the Jean Elaine. It will be a breathtaking journey to see the massive impressions these scours still are today. You will find the size of these masts absolutely awesome.... http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/New-ADM-Diving-Website-1st-July-2007.aspx http://www.admdiving.co.uk/News/July-2007/New-ADM-Diving-Website-1st-July-2007.aspx Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:40:32 GMT OUR NEW WEBSITE went live on 1st July 2007 replacing out old HMC built website that has done us proud for a good 18 months. We are busy loading new content and a wealth of useful downloads, information and useful links and things. Please be patient and supportive as we build up from our old small website. We have a massive amount of courses which we can teach, some very good items to hire and indeed sell, and lots of information about diving, trips and stuff. We would like to thank all of our suppliers, training agencies, supporters, and above all our customers and the many Club Members who have encouraged, supported and indeed helped us get here... A HUGE THANK YOU. Also a special thanks to all my diving friends and especially Simon Henman for all the turmoil they put up with whilst we create our facility for you all.