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Lundi 23 Février 2009 par Véronique
In 2007, Longitude 181 Nature launched the Teaching charts "Diver and environment". During the last Paris International Dive Show (9-11 January, 2009), this new tool achieve a great success for the second year in a row. Now, is available in English.
This pedagogic tool is originated from International guidelines for responsible diver. It was created in order to offer the dive masters a tool for helping them to increase divers awareness of the sea environment and its vulnerability. It was devised with most of the French diving schools and federations (FFESSM, ANMP, SNMP, FSGT). It is now adopted by a growing number of diving guides associations around the world : CEDIP (Europe), the Malaysian diving federation, the CMAS.ch of Switzerland, CMAS Québec...
The Teaching charts "Diver and environment" can now be included in any training system for diving, thanks to charts available for different levels of skills, whatever the system is : Child, Freediver and snorkelling diver, Beginner diver, Autonomous diver, Dive master/ diving guide and Diving school.
The Teaching charts propose, for each of these levels, the following topics :
I. Knowing the environment
II. Reducing your impact on the environment
III. Protecting and taking actions to protect
These topics are split into the 3 main stages of a dive :
Before diving, While diving, After diving
During the last Paris International Dive Show, hundreds of dive masters visited our stand to get a set of the charts. They unanimously admitted that the charts met their expectations : they fill up the existing gap between the current tools available for teaching marine environmental awareness.
2 editions of sets of plastic charts have already been printed thanks to a grant from TPM (Communauté d’Agglomération de Toulon Provence Méditerranée), i.e. 2,400 sets in French and 1,000 sets in English.
More than 10,000 sets of French language Teaching charts « Diver and environment » have been downloaded from our website.
This tool belongs to everyone wishing to protect the environment in a fair and sustainable way.
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