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THE SAFETY STOP
COJO’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
On Location from: COJO Diving World Headquarters, 158 Garden Grove Road, Lincoln, NB, Canada
What's New
Thanks to the Aquateers of Barrie / Borden Ontario for putting up with Joe and showing him the local dive spots and a beautiful wreck!! October is UNDERWATER PUMPKIN CARVING MONTH!!! Connie has the event planned for 27 October. Go on the Facebook page to sign up now!! COJO is pleased to announce their PADI Dive Master course starting up. This course will be the Winter Session Dive Master course and will run through the winter and into spring! IT is going to be an awesome course. Don’t miss it!!
Welcome to the October edition of The COJO Diving Safety Stop news letter. During September COJO was super busy! They completed several courses. Joe had a couple excursions that were totally awesome!! One in Ontario and one in Labrador!! Connie took a group of COJO Divers to the Eastport Pirate Festival and met up with Diver Ed and the League of Underwater Superheroes for a fantastic event!!
COJO encourages you to send in your pictures for the Photo Of The Month. If your picture gets chosen, your picture and name will be published in the Safety Stop and you could win a coupon redeemable for merchandise or services at COJO Diving. COJO had to postpone the trip to Les Escoumins planned in October, there will be more to follow on the rescheduling. If you would like to stop receiving this newsletter please reply to this e mail with “Unsubscribe Me” in the Subject Line Thanks and Safe Diving!! Connie and Joe COJO Diving
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Courses To Come
If you are interested in a course and don’t see it listed here, send us a note at [email protected] and we will see what we can do. We have 4 instructors both locally and abroad to serve you. COJO Diving will be running a "Winter Session" Divemaster Course! The course costs $725+HST and includes everything you need to become a PADI Divemaster. Contact Us for more details! Divemaster candidates will receive a Course Crew-Pack with all materials needed to start the self-study Knowledge Development. Workshops and water/practical sessions will run through the Winter. This is a challenging, exciting and most importantly a FUN course from COJO Diving.. our Divemasters are the best in the industry!
For October we are filling up quick!! We already have the following courses booked:
o PADI Dive Master Course (Running Through Winter)
o 26 to 28 Oct – TDI Advanced Nitrox / Decompression Procedures
o 21 to 22 Oct – PADI Open Water Course o Date TBD – DAN O2 Provider Photo Credit © Connie Bishop 2010
Photo Credit © Connie Bishop 2010
AND, Don’t forget, we have PADI Open Water Diver Courses starting whenever you like!! The online training can be done in the privacy of your own home when YOU want to do it. This enables you to do the course without distractions!! Of course you can always come and do it here at COJO in our eClassroom or in a more traditional setting in our classroom. It is your choice!!!
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Courses Completed or Ongoing
Logan’s Essay
One of our past students and COJO Divers, Logan Penney recently submitted an essay in school about his experiences SCUBA Diving. He was nice enough to share it with us and we thought we would share it with you!!
Thanks Logan, this was awesome!!
Scuba Diving
During September, we completed the following courses
� PADI Sidemount Course � PADI Open Water Course � PADI Rescue Diver Course � Enriched Air Nitrox Course
Great Job to All newly certified and those who are continuing their education!! WOW, what a month!!
Have you ever felt like floating around
weightlessly like an astronaut?
Imagine interacting with colorful fish
and other sea life. Scuba diving can
make this feeling come true. The
training is relatively easy, and the
sights are amazing.
Photo Credit © Connie Bishop 2012
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The training for scuba diving starts out with an online study with an exam
at the end. You will learn about the equipment for diving and how to use it,
you will also learn about the safety of diving. You will then go to a pool to
do skills such as regulating your breathing and flooding your mask and
clearing it. After four pool dives you are now ready for the exciting part, the
open water dives! Your instructor will take you to a real dive environment
such as; a quarry, lake, or the ocean. This is where you will decide if scuba
diving is for you or not.
Scuba diving is an extreme sport with its own dangers. A few of the risks
are; ear squeezes which happens if you descend too quickly,
decompression sickness is caused by increased underwater pressure
where bubbles form in your blood and can cause painful joints and/or
death. Defective equipment is another risk for divers. You should maintain
your equipment and have your regulators checked yearly by a trained
professional to prevent problems on your dives.
You can dive all over the world and take in the sights that you’ll never see
on land. The fish and plant life can be very colorful and they come in many
different shapes and sizes. Many of the sea creatures are curious and may
come check you out or they may try to defend their territory. The beauty
and colors of the plant life and coral will take your breath away. There are
also sunken ships you may want to explore. You may even find unique
treasures on the bottom floor!
As you can see scuba diving has some risk to it, but with proper training it
can also be the most amazing adventure of your life!
Photo Credit © Jim Penney 2012
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Excursions This Past Month
Lake Simcoe Dive Extravaganza!
During September, Joe was near Barrie Ontario and took the time to do some
fresh water diving in Lake Simcoe. He dove Big Bay Point, a beautiful dive with
tons of Bass, Pearch and … Garden Gnomes. It was an awesome circuit laid out
by the local club for divers to dive safely and have a blast! Thanks to Jim Mills for
that one.
One final dive was the Johnson’s Beach Dive where Joe Teamed up with Marc
Larson, Jenna Smith, Marc Duguay and Marla Haring and, after some great info
and a site brief by Aquateer Nicole AuCoin they headed off for a fantastic dive on
a Fish Habitat made from discarded Christmas Trees. This was a great dive with
TONS of HUGE Bass and Pearch..And, Jerry I think there may have been a
Lumpfish!! No picture to prove it to Connie though!
Thanks to all the Base Borden Aquateers, this was a fantastic Excursion!!
He also dove the JC Morrison. This was a
fantastic little wreck that was built in 1854 and
sunk in 1857. There is still about half of one of
the paddle wheels left and it has many 3D parts
such as the hull to look at. You can see the
definitive effects of the fire that brought her
down when you look at the wooden structure.
Thanks to RJ Wilson for the great diving on
that!!
Photo Credit © Joe George 2012
Photo Credit © Joe George 2012
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Eastport Pirate Festival
What a weekend!! A special thanks to Meg McGarvey ("The Commons Eastport") for arranging to cordoned off "diver parking" next to the old cannery building so divers had parking for the day and direct access to the dive site! Even with the seas building we managed 2 great dives on Saturday at Eastport. Conditions were actually fantastic underwater, with 20ft+ visibility. We introduced a few divers new to the site and they were impressed.. lots of critters to see. Thanks to John, Roger, Claire and Greg for the dives! This was the 7th annual Pirate Festival in Eastport and it was a fantastic turn-out for the city.. we'll be back next year :)
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Excursions To Come
For October, Joe will be heading back to his buddies’ for a few dives. He will be at Diver Ed and the League of Underwater Superheroes headquarters in Bar Harbor Maine for some awesome decompression diving there of the Starfish Enterprise!! This is guaranteed to be the trip of the year!!
Connie will be staying a bit closer to home but will be heading to New River Beach for the Annual Pumpkin Carving!! She will be meeting up with local divers from the NB Diver’s Group on Facebook for some awesome carving and festivities!! I am sure this will be almost as awesome as Bar Harbor!! Just as a Heads Up, we are also planning a trip to Blue Heron Bridge followed by a cave / cavern excursion to High Springs with our most awesome instructor Jim Wyatt of Cave Country Dive Shop in Florida in the new year!! This is guaranteed to be a blast!!!
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October’s Featured Course
TDI Advanced Nitrox / Decompression Procedures Course
Only $795.00!!!
The TDI Advanced Nitrox course is for divers looking to make use of mixes from EAN-21 through 100% Oxygen for dives up to 130fsw. COJO’s objective during this course is to train you in the benefits, hazards, and proper procedures for utilizing EAN-21 through 100% Oxygen for dives not requiring staged decompression.
The TDI Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum certified depth of 150fsw, this course provides the first step beyond standard sport diver limits.
The Fun Part…By combining the two, we will be teaching you how to utilize 21% to 100% Oxygen to carry out staged decompression dives up to a maximum depth of 150 fsw!! It is an awesome course with awesome diving!!
If you would like more information, feel free to send us a note at [email protected] for details!!
Photo Credit: © Connie Bishop 2010
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OCTOBER’S FEATURED PRODUCT
GoPro Camera Systems
COJO Diving is now your headquarters for the GoPro Line of Camera Systems!! The most versatile, powerful and easy to use camera in the world!! For information on any accessories or pricing on the complete line, e mail us at [email protected] or come in and visit us at the COJO Diving World Headquarters in Lincoln, New Brunswick!!
Only $385.00 For the Go Pro Hero 2 and the Dive Housing Combined!!!!!
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Picture of the Month
Narrative by Nick Thebeau: I took that photo (Eagle Rays) myself (Nicholas
Thebeau), in Oahu- Hawaii. The dive site is called Nashua (60 ft, max
depth), through Dive Oahu. It is a wreck dive. As soon as I hit bottom, I
immediately saw the Eagle Rays swim by in the distance. Knowing full well
that it is uncommon to see them in groups, I quickly checked my air (had
over 2800 pounds left), and decided to follow- leaving (temporarily) the
group. I spent about 25 minutes chasing these guys down, until I realized I
could just barely see the Wreck; which I then decided to regroup. What I
didn't notice, until I uploaded the pictures, is the massive chain and anchor
that you can see on the ocean floor. I call the Picture "Family".
Beautiful picture Nick!! For his picture, Nick has won 5 free air fills. Come in any time and get your gift card Nick.
Keep sending in those pictures!!
PHOTO CREDIT© Nick Thebeau
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Other News
Our book “Sidemounting for the Recreational Diver” is available online or in our store. We kept the costs low and there are some fantastic lessons in it for all divers, not just Sidemounters. We would love for you to follow us on Facebook. Become a friend of COJO Diving at http://www.facebook.com/COJODiving If you are ever in Maine and looking for a Dive shop West of Bar Harbor, check out Down East Dive Shop!! They are a PADI Dive Shop and have a full range of awesome gear!! www.downeastdiveshop.com . We use them when we head to Maine and we always have fun there. You will too!!
Thanks!! Looking forward to diving with you soon!! Connie and Joe!!
