Workshop 2010 Exhibitors
Dive Rite
Dive Rite is the pioneering creator of technical SCUBA diving equipment for advanced, wreck and cave diving. Our Catalog is vast, ranging from backplates, harnesses and wings (BCDs) to regulators, lights, drysuits and the O2ptima rebreather. To purchase Dive Rite technical scuba gear, find a dealer near you. Also, see the Tech Tour schedule to learn if the Dive Rite team will be near you soon.
Hollis Gear
Today, divers are demanding specialized product with higher technical features. Answering this request is Hollis; dive gear designed for serious divers.
Hollis brings innovation and engineering experience to the dive industry by designing the highest quality and most innovative scuba diving equipment available. Equipment designed to accommodate the beginning sport diver to the exploratory technical diver, using the most cutting edge materials and proven technologies for any condition.
Designed with Pride in the USA.
PADI
Technical Diving
Technical diving is scuba diving’s “extreme” sport, taking experienced and qualified divers far deeper than in mainstream recreational diving. Technical diving is marked by significantly more equipment and training requirements to manage the additional hazard this type of diving entails. Tec diving isn’t for everyone, but for those who hear its challenge call, the PADI TecRec courses are the answer. View the Tec Diving Blog
Heinerth Productions
Explorer, filmmaker, photographer, and artist, Jill Heinerth will have a full compliment of images, DVD's, books, notecards, and much, much more available for purchase at her booth!
VR Technology
VR Technology is a rare mix of very experienced technical divers and professional engineers, as a result we are constantly producing ground-breaking product for the diving industry. VR Technology is the most innovative diving electronics company in the world today. Our products are made to the exacting requirements of CE, following ISO 9001:2008 production standards. Enabling us to design and manufacture Personal Protective Equipment - PPE (rebreathers) under the Directive. Several manufacturers have ISO but few are able to design PPE.
Gamble SCUBA
Gamble Scuba specializes in the repair of Drysuits, Wetsuits, and Diving Harnesses. They cater to Cave Divers and can attach latex seals to Neoprene suits, sew webbing and repair or modify almost anything! Stop by the booth and let Steve get you back in the water!
Pod Diver Radio
Joe Cocozza of Pod Diver Radio, will be on hand all weekend doing interviews with diving experts, explorers, technical diving equipment manufacturers, and instructors. The podcasts will cover a range of topics including technical diving, cave diving, rebreathers, underwater imaging, diving medicine and more!
ScubaBoard
Be sure to stop by the ScubaBoard booth and learn more about how you can join ScubaBoard and well over 100,000 divers discussing Scuba Diving topics from Equipment to Dive Travel. Read dive articles where you can learn about the latest news, deep & wreck diving, new diver and advanced training. You can also find a dive buddy using our comprehensive search and map integration called the Buddy Matrix! Visit our underwater photo galleries with more than 80,000 images. Register for our monthly newsletter and more, much more, and it's all free!
OMS
Based in Montgomery NY. and founded in 1991, Ocean Management Systems Inc., commonly known as OMS (www.omsdive.com) is revolutionizing the future of sport and technical diving through the implementation of today's most advanced technology. The company is leading the dive industry with innovative life support, computer and analytical products that greatly enhance the diver's situational awareness and safety during every phase of dive. OMS Inc. has built its core business, around neutrally buoyant steel cylinders, patented BC's and backplate harness systems. These and other OMS products are typically known throughout the dive industry for their innovative design, and robustness.
Michael Angelo Gagliardi
Renown cave diving artist Michael Angelo Gagliardi will be exhibiting his beautifully crafted cave art at this year's workshop! Be sure to stop by his booth and see what's new!
Divers Supply carries a wide array of equipment for every diver's needs. We are proud to carry the following brands: Oceanic, Tusa, Mares, Aeris, Cressi-Sub, Edge, Sea-Elite, Henderson, Akona, USIA, Sherwood, Dive Rite, OMS, Poseidon, XS Scuba, Princeton Technology, SeaLife, Underwater Kinetics, and many more! We even offer trade up programs for your old and used equipment.
Tec Dive Center
Lakeland, Florida
KISS
We know that purchasing a rebreather is a big decision for most divers. We want all divers to make informed purchase decisions. We want you to choose a unit which fits your diving needs, your budget, and where you get the features that you desire in a rebreather. You will, no doubt, be diving this rebreather for many years and we would like you to think about your decision carefully. Brett Hemphill will be on site at the Kiss booth to help answer all those tough questions!
Non Profit Exhibitors
North Florida Springs Alliance
National Association for Cave Diving
Current Problems
Cave Diving Museum and Library
Door Prize Donors
Dive Rite:
Assorted goodies throughout the day and a $1000 Gift Certificate as a Grand Prize!
VR Technologies:
A VR dive computer as a Grand Prize!
Amigos Dive Center:
Too many prizes to list!!! Air cards, Nitrox, Trimix and O2 coupons, dive equipment, and Amigos swag (hats and tees)!
Heinerth Productions, Inc.:
Two beautiful signed and matted prints; one archive (poster) size signed print; 5 CAVE posters!
Liquid Productions, LLC:
DVD's of some of their coolest productions and some great LP tees!
Cave Dive Florida:
A two night stay at The Rum House!
Robert Laird:
Two autographed copies of his book "The Tunnel"
The North Florida Springs Alliance:
Some very cool tee shirts!
Dive Addicts:
A two-night stay at Cave Country Lodging!
Tampa Adventure Sports:
To be announced soon!
Exploration Design Studio:
A travel backpack including: $25 gift certificate, 20-inch solid sterling silver rope chain; Cave Diving Gorilla (stuffed toy animal); stowaway mini-backpack; Pack-Mate packing system, AM/FM radio-lantern.
The Cave Diving Museum & Library
To be announced soon!