How To Find A Dive Buddy

Divers ReadyFri, September 4, 2020 1:17pm

How To Find A Dive Buddy – Let’s keep people in the sport of scuba diving!
‘I love diving but I’ve got no one to go with.’
‘I don’t want to dive with strangers, so I don’t dive often.’
‘Nobody I know wants to get scuba certified. I’m buddy-less.’

All three of those statements were put to me in emails and video comments in the last three months. One of the biggest reasons people stop scuba diving is the lack of a regular buddy to dive with.

But finding a buddy can be super easy! I’ve got five tips to help!

Here are the resources mentioned in this video:

List of dive clubs: http://www.aquanaut.com/clubs/
Single Divers Travel: https://www.singledivers.com/home/

The Watch giveaway:

OK, so here’s the thing. Writing, shooting, editing, color grading, rendering and uploading videos takes time and has to be done in advance. Aquinus had told me months ago that they were going to do a giveaway and the dates would be: 7th September to 18th September for entries. Aquinus emailed me on Friday to say they didn’t want to run the competition anymore. Two days before this video was to go live! This video was already finished and queued up on YouTube by then and I didn’t have time to re-edit and re-upload it.

So here’s what we’re going to do…

Instead of Aquinus running a giveaway, Divers Ready! is going to run the giveaway! I’m going to giveaway the 007 serial number Aquinus MCP2019 limited edition watch that they sent to me, that’s featured in this video.

If you want a chance to win this watch, three simple things you have to do:

1. Subscribe to Divers Ready! on YouTube (if you haven’t done so already! If you have, good for you… you’re entered!)

2. Comment on this video, telling the world who your favorite dive buddy is and why.

3. Formally enter the contest through gleam so we can randomly pick a winner: https://gleam.io/xkKsN/aquinus-mcp2019-giveaway

Conditions:
This contest will run from 7th September 2020 to the 7th October 2020. The winner will be announced on October 8th 2020 and they will have one week to claim their prize. If no claimant comes forward, a redrawing will take place. The randomly selected winner from Gleam will be cross referenced against the comment section of this video and our subscriber list. There is no cash alternative. YouTube is not a sponsor and entrants are required to release YouTube from all liability related to this giveaway.

Thanks for watching and good luck!

D.S.D.O

James

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Meet James Blackman

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With a career in diving spanning twenty years, James has seen a thing or two in the dive industry. James grew up on the Southwest coast of Britain and learned to dive in the frigid waters of the English Channel. If your first dives were like being placed in a cocktail shaker full of cabbage soup and you come away with a love for the sport, then you know it’s going to be a life-long pursuit.

James spent his twenties in the British merchant marine which afforded him the opportunity to travel to and dive in far flung locales… 177 countries and counting. Between stints onboard a variety of vessels, James used his shore leaves to level up his scuba training… Rescue diver in Tanzania, DM in Indonesia, Instructor in Honduras, Tec Instructor in the French West Indies.

His last ship before moving to a shore-based life style was an expedition ship where he notched up some of his most impressive dives, including briefly holding the world record for most northerly scuba dive… 82 degrees north in the Russian arctic; diving the Amazon river; the Antarctic; and virgin reef systems in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia.

Moving ashore in his early thirties, James took on the role of General Manager for a luxury dive operator in St Martin and never had a dull moment! Hollywood visited the island and called upon James’ underwater skills for on-set safety. When Cat-3 hurricane Gonzalo devastated the area, James switched hats to salvage and public safety diver to help with the recovery.

Scuba Diving has given so much to James in his life… and first on that list is his brilliant wife Karina whom he met whilst teaching her AOW class! Yes, that old cliché! James and Karina are also business partners and co-owners of two power-house scuba brands. Miami Technical Diving has become the premiere scuba training facility in South Florida. Tired of seeing other dive shops compete in a ‘race to the bottom,’ James decided his model for teaching scuba would focus on keeping the quality as high as possible; using the best gear possible; teaching beyond the minimum standards on a 1-to-1 student-to-instructor ratio. The fullness of the MTD training calendar shows that people – student divers – prefer to receive premium, quality tuition, as opposed to cheap and fast.

James is the personality and knowledge broker behind ‘Divers Ready!’ a super influential Scuba Diving YouTube channel, website and brand. In just a year, Divers Ready! has become the fastest growing You Tube channel in the Scuba Diving niche, with 1000s of new divers joining every month. Their weekly videos range from Mouthpiece Mondays – where James shares his insider knowledge and opinions about controversial topics in the dive industry – to practical ‘hints & tutorial’ style videos, all with one simple goal in mind – to make you a better diver!

James and Karina started small group luxury dive trips for the Divers Ready! audience.

James and Karina live in Miami, FL with their rambunctious dogs; Ziggy The Husky and Bonham the Mutt, and their Maine Coon cat Foxy, who remains unimpressed.