ADU Marketing Adviser
Barb Roy
Barb Roy has agreed to work with ADU on our business marketing, website development and in organizing dive club activities. She also creates our dive club/store newsletter. FYI: Barb learned to dive in Anchorage, Alaska, acquiring her PADI Master Instructor rating and has enjoyed cold water diving for over 30 years. She is based in British Columbia, Canada and works as a freelance outdoor adventure writer/photographer specializing in dive travel around the world. Her work has appeared since 1990 in various International print magazines, Internet publications, in books and is widely used to promote diving in British Columbia. As a Trimix diver and a NAUI Underwater Archeology Instructor, Barb has worked extensively with cold water wreck explorers to photo-document numerous natural and historic wrecks in BC and Washington State. When Barb is not photographing giant gorgonian sea fans at 200 feet or giving image presentations on BC’s shipwrecks, she works with The Dive Industry Association of British Columbia as a Director, with marketing eco-friendly BC as a focus. Check out more of Barb Roy’s work at www.barbroyphotography.com or www.innerspaceproductions.com.
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Giving You Big Store Prices with Small Store Service!
Welcome to Adventures Down Under, a progressive full service Dive Center and Technical Facility located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. We specialize in both recreational and technical classes from basic openwater through trimix rebreather along with numerous charters from the basic skill level through the most advanced technical levels. The purpose of our web is to improve and enhance the services we provide to our customers. We will be providing a number of resources here to help answer any questions you may have, resolve problems, purchase hard to find equipment and accessories, and suggest improvements to our products and services. We hope you will 'dive' right in and find what you seek and that together we can advance the sport of scuba to a higher and safer level. Take a moment to peruse the Why ADU Stands Out page, there are a number of things we do that offers any diver a fresh and enhanced perspective that sets us far apart from our competition.
Ron Akeson
Welcome to ADU
ADU was first established in Anchorage, Alaska in 1980 as Alaskan Underwater Adventures, then later moved to Bellingham in 1991 to better serve the divers along the northwest coast. Coldwater diving has always been a favorite of our staff and we strive to provide excellent customer service. Our retail prices are very reasonable and our service department technicians are professionally trained with annual updates. Air fills at ADU are always hyper-filtered through two filtration systems. Nitrox, Trimix and Argon are available as well. The instructional department offers scuba training in various levels of PADI, TDI and SDI, utilizing the most up to date teaching materials. Certified technical and rebreather instruction is also available at ADU by Instructor Trainer, Ron Akeson. As a Marine Biologist and professional photographer /cinematographer, Ron offers over 30 years of industry experience in every class he teaches and customer he talks with. ADU also hosts Divers Down Under, an active Whatcom County dive club, at the store facility on Holly Street, the first Tuesday of each month. Please stop by and check out the store!
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ADU emails out a quarterly 4-6 page ‘active diver’ newsletter to all store customers and dive club members. The newsletter includes all special upcoming dive trips, events, seminars, dive club meetings, upcoming classes and what in general is going on at the dive store. Any big sale days and clearance items will also be listed. Contact the store to sign up for your complimentary subscription today! ....more
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ADU Store Socials
After over ten years of running the dive club, ADU has decided to take a year off from it and transform the various planned activities into store social events where anyone and everyone can attend. These get-togethers include a combination of workshops, presentations, tours, and other fun outings. Renewed club members will be able to take advantage of their discounts until their memberships run out. ....more
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Critters Down Under
This program was originally created around 1985 by Barb Roy when the dive business was still in Alaska, as a way to increase public awareness in schools. Over the years the program has developed into two one-hour sessions: Classroom Presentation and Beach Exploring. During the classroom session ADU’s store associate, Tallen Patrick shows an image presentation of our local underwater world and displays dive gear used. The beach session is conducted at a beach where a diver gently collects several critters to show the kids in a safe container while Tallen explains what they are. Cost for this program is $20 per session for a classroom. ....more
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ADU Dive Stories
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Dive to Gain Experience
Once a diver is finished with their Openwater Scuba Course quite often they will take one or two warm water holidays, but go no further.
We think the problem might be that they don’t realize how good local diving is in the
northwest or they lack a buddy to go diving with. Beneath the waters of both Washington
and coastal British Columbia a diver has the ... more
Campbell River - October 10-12 - $525
Fall is a great time to visit the Campbell River area, located on the eastern side of Vancouver Island because visibility is so good. Although most of the diving
is done in Discovery Pass, Earl with Abyssal Charters
will travel to Mittlenatch Island and to sites on the far
side of Quadra Island, weather permitting. Divers can
expect to see assorted invertebrates on the wall at
Copper Cliffs and covering the wreck at May Island.
The 366’ wreck of the Columbia was scuttled in 1996
with a compliment of six large guns on the back deck.
We have seen large octopus near the wreck and rockfish
in its crinkled bow.... more
Cleaning Help Needed for Annapolis Ship
As many of you know, work is progressing well aboard the Annapolis, but there is still much to be done to prepare the ship for sinking in Howe Sound. Volunteers have been wonderful in helping prepare the ship by volunteering their time in cleaning, taking things apart and other miscellaneous work on the ship. No diving is involved and you don’t have to be a diver to help out! Groups generally leave from Horseshoe Bay early am, ranging from 8-12 people per weekend day. Here are some dates that are open for volunteer help; May 30 & 31, June 6, 7, 21, 27, 28. All weekends in July and August are also open for groups or individual help.
Please let Deirdre know as soon as you can if any of these dates work for any of you individually or as a group through a dive shop or dive club or a bunch of friends wanting to help out. Thanks for all of your help so far!
oq@diveoceanquest.com, 604.436.1157 or Deirdre Forbes MaCracken
dmccracken@artificialreef.bc.ca Artificial Reef Society of BC
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