THE SAFETY STOP
COJO’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
On Location from: Bar Harbor, Maine
What's New
Happy New Year and welcome to the
January edition of The COJO Diving Safety
Stop news letter.
For December, Connie and Joe hosted the
Annual Christmas Tree Dive at Beaver
Harbor where there was a group of divers
from all over New Brunswick for a ton of
fun!! Special Thanks to Patrice Charette for
the Shelter and heater!!!
On 29 December, COJO headed for an excursion to Bar Harbor to teach a
few DAN courses and dive with their good buddies from The League of
Underwater Superheroes!
COJO Diving also received an award for 2011 from International Training
(SDI and TDI)! Great start to 2012!!
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 an additional 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 the Safety Stop Newsletter please REPLY
to this e mail with UNSUBSCRIBE ME in the Subject.
Thanks and Safe Diving!!
Connie and Joe
COJO Diving
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COJO’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Courses To Come
For January we have the following courses
planned:
13 January, Enriched Air Nitrox
20 to 22 January, Intro To Technical
Diving
27 to 29 Jan, DAN Diving Emergency
Management Program (DEMP) Course.
Photo Credit © Miriam Crammond 2011
Also, our Training Calendar has been updated for
2012 and there are tons of new courses on there.
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 interested in a course and do not see it there. We just
simply don’t have enough time to schedule all the courses we’d like to do.
Courses Completed or Ongoing
For December, we went down to Bar Harbor and completed the DAN
Diving Emergency Management Program. This is a combination of 4
courses.
Oxygen Provider
Advanced Oxygen Provider
AED, and
Hazardous Marine Life Injuries
We would like to give a special thanks to our hosts, Diver Ed, Captain
Evil Edna, and The League of Underwater Superheroes! It was an
awesome time!!
We also still have an Open Water Instructor Course ongoing as well!
If you are interested in any of our courses, just send a note to
[email protected] for more information.
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Excursions This Past Month
During the month of December we hosted the
Annual Christmas Tree Dive at Beaver Harbor.
This event is a fantastic way for the divers from
the area to celebrate a bit of Christmas together
and this year there were 7 divers out to brave the
cold, some sporting Santa Hats! Some divers
even had wetsuits on!! All divers got to sit on
Santa’s knee for a picture and a wish; and we all
got in for a dive or two!
Special thanks to Patrice Charette, a local diver
and good buddy of COJO for bringing a huge
shelter and a propane heater to warm up and cook
hot chocolate during and after the diving!
Towards New Year’s Eve, we headed to Bar Harbor for an awesome excursion
with The League of Underwater Superheroes. While there, we taught a DAN
DEMP Course and completed a fantastic dive from a shore site in the area.
Thanks very much to Captain Evil Edna, Diver Ed and all of the Superheroes
and Super people in Bar Harbor!
Congratulations to Michael Joy, Joe Pagan, Diver Ed Monat, Maurice Libner,
Wayne Printy, Edna Martin and Phil Richter on completing the DAN DEMP
Course! Great Job!!
To the guys that aren’t in the picture, SORRY!! We messed it up!! You were awesome!!
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Upcoming Excursions
As a quick overview of the 2012 Diving Calendar, we are planning the
following excurisions
January – Bar Harbor, Intro to Tech Course and Diving
February – Bar Harbor, Advanced Nitrox and Decompression
Procedures
March – Boston – Boston Sea Rovers Conference
March – New York – Beneath the Sea Conference
April – High Springs Florida – Deep Diving Excursion with Jim Wyatt
from Cave Dive Florida and Cave Country Dive Shop
May / June – Newfoundland with Ocean Quest Resorts
July – Brockville Ontario for some wreck diving
August – Brockville Ontario
September – Les Escoumins, Quebec
September – Empress of Ireland, Rimouski, Quebec
If you have any ideas for excursions we would love to hear from you! You
can e-mail us at [email protected] or go on our COJO Diving
Facebook page and drop us a line!!
We are toying with a Wreck Diving Boat Excursion aboard a 51 Foot Dive
Boat to Grand Manan this year in the summer / fall timeframe. If anyone is
interested, let us know at [email protected]
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COJO’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
January’s
Featured Products
GO SIDEMOUNT!!
The Dive Rite Nomad line is on sale this month. Why wait any
longer, make going sidemount your New Year’s Resolution!!
The benefits are fantastic!!
NOMAD EXP $599.00
$499.00
NOMAD JT $699.00
$499.00
NOMAD XT $825.00
$499.00
Call us for information!!
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Picture of the Month
PHOTO CREDIT© Connie Bishop 2011
January’s Photo of the Month was taken by Connie Bishop during the
Underwater Christmas Tree Decorating held at Beaver Harbor on 17
December! The candy cane featured was an Environmentally Friendly
decoration that was made by Katelynn Chase.
Awesome Picture Connie!!
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COJO’s MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
News
COJO Diving is now offering a Full Range of
DAN First Aid and Oxygen Courses, equipment
and training materials. If you would like more
information, feel free to contact us at
[email protected].
NB Divers has moved to Facebook – New Brunswick Divers (NB Divers)
Yahoo Group has been transformed into a Facebook Group. Please go on
Facebook and “LIKE” New Brunswick SCUBA Diving and keep up to date
on the latest Dive news from New Brunswick and all over!! This site is the
best way to see what is going on around the area for diving!
Our new 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/pages/COJO-Diving/156018204447818
Thanks!!
Looking forward to diving with you soon!!
Connie and Joe!!