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THE SAFETY STOP
COJO’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
On Location from: COJO World Headquarters, Lincoln, NB, Canada
What's New
May has also proved to be their busiest month on record!! Many divers stopped over to take a look at the new facility and have a coffee with COJO. Of course there was also the Annual Victoria Day Dive Excursion held on Deer Island with Sunset Suites and Cottage donating their BBQ’s and utensils for no charge to the divers!!!! Joe spent a couple weekends near Montreal, Quebec completing his PADI IDC and then his PADI Instructor Examination so he could teach PADI. COJO also hired a new instructor, Kevin Brown who will be teaching Recreational SCUBA as well.
Welcome to the June edition of The COJO Diving Safety Stop news letter. During May COJO Was quite busy. They completed several courses, put the finishing touches on the move and the crossover to add PADI to roster of agencies available. They have also added Light And Motion to their product lines. These are some of the nicest recreational lights available!!
We encourage you to send in pictures for our 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. Finally if you have any suggestions to improve the newsletter or diving in general, feel free to send them to us at COJO and we will do our best to help make New Brunswick a thriving dive destination!! 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
We now offer 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!!! We have pool sessions on the second weekend of each month and the Open Water Sessions on the Third Weekends. Send a note to [email protected] to get your code and start today!! Also, keep in mind that we are always willing to put on a course if you are interested and we constantly update the calendar, so feel free to send us a note if you are looking for a course and do not see it here.
Courses Completed or Ongoing
June looks amazingly Busy!! we have the following courses booked.
o 4 June – DAN Oxygen Provider Course o 6 June – TDI Visual Inspector Course o 16, 17, 23, 24, 30 June and 1 July –
PADI Open Water Course AND, we are looking at putting on an Advanced Diver Course as well during June!! If you are interested in taking any course, call (506)292-5111 or send an email to [email protected] for details!
During May, we completed the following courses
� Drysuit Diver Course � Knots and Rigging for the Commercial Diver � Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty
If you are interested in any of our courses, just send a note to [email protected] for more information.
Photo Credit © Connie Bishop 2012
Photo Credit © Joe George 2006
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Excursions This Past Month
Annual Victoria Day Weekend
Dive Excursion!! For Victoria Day Weekend May 18 to 21, Connie and Joe headed for Deer Island and the Annual Victoria Day Dive Excursion!! This year was the largest ever with more than 30 divers from Fredericton, Saint John and Nova Scotia!! The tides were fantastic and there was dive after dive going on. Shearwater SCUBA Club showed up to celebrate and dive as well. What an awesome weekend!! Saturday Night Connie and Joe hosted the annual Potluck and BBQ at Sunset Suites and Cottage. A very special thanks to Sunset Suites and Cottages for supplying the BBQ’s, Utensils and the most beautiful sunsets on the East Coast!! You guys ROCK!!
For May, Joe Headed to Pointe Claire, Quebec for
his Instructor Crossover Course as well as the PADI
Instructor Evaluation. This was a very demanding
and rewarding course that familiarized Joe with the
PADI system of teaching SCUBA Divers. PADI is
the largest and most recognized organization in the
world. They are the leaders in recreational diving!!
A special thanks to Francois Demers, PADI Course Director that helped Joe
to cross over and a big congratulations to all the new PADI instructors,
especially Vince Longpré and Marc Boudreau who worked with Joe during
the Open Water Sessions and then through the entire Evaluation!!
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June’s Featured Course
SDI Computer Nitrox Course Only $99.00!!!
The Computer Nitrox course is the perfect next step after the Open Water Diver certification. It is structured in an easy to understand manner by making use of Nitrox programmable computers for diving. Nitrox as a breathing gas has many benefits for any diver. The basic course covers the use of recreational Nitrox mixtures from 22 to 40 percent oxygen. The benefits of using Nitrox include
• Increased safety margins • Reduced post dive fatigue • Extended no-decompression times
If you are ready for this course or think you are, give us a call or send us a note at [email protected] and we will answer any questions you may have!
Nitrox / Air Fill Cards
10 Fills of 22 – 32% Nitrox Only $99.00!!!
OR 10 Fills of Air Only $59.00!!!
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Picture of the Month
June’s Picture of the Month was taken at Pointe-Des-Cascades in Quebec on 27 May 12. This is a group photo of all the new PADI instructors that successfully completed the PADI Instructor Course . Unfortunately I am not sure who took the photo and I apologize. I thought it was Francois Demers who did trained quite a few of the instructor candidates but he is in the picture!
GREAT JOB TO ALL!!
Keep sending in those pictures!!
PHOTO CREDIT© ??
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Other News Deer Island Campground is now open for the season. If you would like to go camping there, give them a call. I know that Deer Island Point Council has been busy working and getting the point ready for the summer. Divers remember!! If you are diving at Deer Island Point, please respect the parking areas and check in at the office. In the future, we will be donating 10 picnic tables to Deer Island Campground. We are looking to give them the money required to build them in September, 2012. If you are able to donate, please send us a note. This campground is awesome to divers and it is a great place to go!!
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
Thanks!! Looking forward to diving with you soon!! Connie and Joe!!