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2009-07-02Travel Update 02/07/2009
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Project AWARE's Environmental Operators demonstrate a commitment to conservation and provide customers with experiences that enhance visitor awareness, appreciation and understanding of the environment.
Utila Dive Center was selected as one of Project AWARE's Environmental Achievement Award recipients for 2008! This is the 3rd consecutive year that UDC have received the award and is a great reflection for our Instructors, Divemaster and Boat Cpatians efforts for protecting the environment and educating our divers in environmental conservation.
To be considered UDC satisfied the following criteria:
* Nature based
* Contribute to local environmental conservation
* Support local community well-being
* Include environmental education
It's never too late to become a PADI Instructor with our upcoming IDC's held on Utila, Honduras. If you are a PADI Divemaster (or equivalent) then you can enroll in one of our upcoming PADI IDC's, our July PADI IDC that will run from the 8th to 19th with the exams on the 21st/22nd, and then our August IDC will run from the 12th to the 23rd with the exams on the 25th/26th.
UDC is selected as one of Project AWARE's Environmental Achievement Awards.
Project AWARE's Environmental Operators demonstrate a commitment to conservation and provide customers with experiences that enhance visitor awareness, appreciation and understanding of the environment.
Utila Dive Center was selected as one of Project AWARE's Environmental Achievement Award recipients for 2008! This is the 3rd consecutive year that UDC have received the award and is a great reflection for our Instructors, Divemaster and Boat Cpatians efforts for protecting the environment and educating our divers in environmental conservation.
To be considered UDC satisfied the following criteria:
* Nature based
* Contribute to local environmental conservation
* Support local community well-being
* Include environmental education
Updated Travel Information
We've had a few people coming to Utila Dive Centre today so this is the story so far....
You can get a flight from SPS to La Ceiba with SOSA. They are definitely still running. I believe they have stopped Hedmann Alas buses but Mirna buses have been running regularly from the same station as Hedmann Alas. I've also heard that you will get stopped at roadblocks but you can get out, walk around the corner and get another bus. Again this information may change. Please remember to stay safe and get local information at source, it will be much more reliable.
Travel Information for Utila
Life is still good on Utila.
The military has imposed a curfew throughout Honduras at 9pm but that is only expected to last a day or so. I believe they are not running internal flights through TACA but all other flights are running as scheduled and all roads and international borders are open. I believe there is a military presence on the streets of major cities but they are not violent.
The ferry is still running twice a day and so far has been full of travelers. 2 of our Instructors flew back into Honduras this morning and are expected back at Utila Dive Centre this afternoon. They have experienced short delays but no other difficulties.
Another of our Instructors left for the mainland yesterday afternoon. His bus was delayed between La Ceiba and San Pedro Sula fo a short time but when he called he had made it to San Pedro airport and was awaiting his flight back to the UK.
We will update the website regularly so keep checking in.
Utila Dive Center was selected as one of Project AWARE's Environmental Achievement Award recipients for 2008! This is the 3rd consecutive year that UDC have received the award and is a great reflection for our Instructors, Divemaster and Boat Cpatians efforts for protecting the environment and educating our divers in environmental conservation.
To be considered UDC satisfied the following criteria:
* Nature based
* Contribute to local environmental conservation
* Support local community well-being
* Include environmental education
UDC is selected as one of Project AWARE's Environmental Achievement Awards.
Utila Dive Center was selected as one of Project AWARE's Environmental Achievement Award recipients for 2008! This is the 3rd consecutive year that UDC have received the award and is a great reflection for our Instructors, Divemaster and Boat Cpatians efforts for protecting the environment and educating our divers in environmental conservation.
To be considered UDC satisfied the following criteria:
* Nature based
* Contribute to local environmental conservation
* Support local community well-being
* Include environmental education
Congratulations to our new PADI Scuba Diving Instructors!
The perfect start to Summer 2009 and the beginning of the best lifestyle ever!!!!
Congratulations to our PADI Instructor Development Course, IDC candidates with another great accomplishment. The photo above was taken with the Utila Dive Centre's June Instructor candidates and IDC staff from Utila, at their celebratory dinner at Utilas finest restaurant 'La Piccola' on the eve of completing their Instructor exams. Once again our candidates excelled from our dedicated personalised Instruction, and showed there is a difference with the training of PADI Course Director Angel Navarro and IDC Staff Instructor Ed Butler.
Our candidates are now going on to complete the PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer program with scuba internship and qualify with our facility as 'Beautiful Oceans Science Instructors', and to work in the dive industry throughout the Bay Islands, Mexico, Caribbean and Central America with assistance from our job placement service. Our candidates came afar as the USA, Canada, UK, Israel, and locally Honduras.
To date in 2009 more Instructor candidates had chosen UDC as the PADI Career Development Center to take their Instructor training, more than any other facility in Central America, based on our great reputation, word of mouth, our training programs, comprehensive curriculum, broadest range of con-ed options and all with guaranteed success at the exams and more importantly in the the dive industry.
If you'd like to learn more about a professional dive career as either a PADI Divemaster or Instructor on Utila, please contact PADI Course Director Andy Phillips on gopro@utiladivecenter.com for more information, so make your life mean something and join one of our next IDC's!!!!!!
Utila Dive Centre
"Often imitated but never surpassed!"
GoPro with our PADI Instructor (IDC) and Divemaster course's
It's never too late to become a PADI Instructor with our upcoming IDC's held on Utila, Honduras. If you are a PADI Divemaster (or equivalent) then you can enroll in one of our upcoming PADI IDC's, our July PADI IDC that will run from the 8th to 19th with the exams on the 21st/22nd, and then our August IDC will run from the 12th to the 23rd with the exams on the 25th/26th.
There's never been a better time to become a PADI Instructor, with a booming dive industry through Central America and the Caribbean, from Mexico to Panama, with a demand for PADI Scuba Instructors to work the upcoming Summer season. Make your year mean something and join us for the most exciting and dynamic PADI IDC in Central America, and arrive early for free diving and preparation program, please 'Contact Us' for more information and read on to find out what makes our program and staff the most chosen and awarded in Central America.
UDC is a TrekCATS Dive Operator
Now backpackers and travelers can dive Central America the informed way. Choose from the premier dive operators in each country in Central America, from Guatemala to Colombia on your travels, and when you show proof of having taken a course with a TrekCATS operator, or 2 logged dives, you get entitled to a special rate at all other members! Not only do TrekCATS dive operations adhere to the highest standards of quality, but they provide an amazing service and a fun time for all their divers. Search for the TrekCATS group on Facebook to find members and join the group. Another great reason to come and dive with UDC!
It's now official, the management team at Utila dive center have been awarded in exceeding excellence for their activities both in, and out of the water.
At the October DEMA dive show in Orlando, UDC owner and manager, Ricardo Gonzalez collected 2 awards from PADI Worldwide, in recognition of the support that Utila Dive Center provides for the local dive community on Utila, the Bay Islands, and in Honduras, with a second award to the UDC Instructor Development team, for their Instructor training efforts and to raising the 'bar' in their PADI 'GoPro' programs. It's no secret amongst divers that UDC provides the best in-water experiences, training and education programs, with marine conversation efforts previously awarded by project Aware, and this photo above shows the awards given at the DEMA dive show, and reinforces UDC's commitment to giving their divers the best time, both in and out of the Ocean!
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