Divescapes Scuba Conference

08/21/2024

Let welcome another Divescapes '24 Exhibitor: Deep Fathoms Advanced Systems, see www.deepfathoms.com

DeepFathoms is dedicated to creating extraordinary opportunities for people who seek the most out of their diving activities. Our mission is to promote safe exploration by offering exceptional personalized diver training and support.

08/07/2024

What an amazing prize - donated again by our dive buddies/Divescapes Gold Sponsor/Exhibitors at Shearwater Research.

Get your Early Bird Gold Pass before September 15th for Divescapes '24, Oct 18, 19th, 2024 at the Deerfoot Inn & Casino, Calgary for your chance to WIN this prize!! See www.divescapes.ca/tickets

07/26/2024

***KEYNOTE SPEAKER ANNOUCMENT***

We are excited to announce this years Keynote Speaker

Cristian Dimitrius
Is a celebrated cinematographer, photographer and TV presenter specializing, whose works highlight the majesty and complexity of the natural world. A talented versatile cameraman that brings a unique talent and approach to his storytelling, not only placing his viewer directly with the subject matter, but making them care deeply about it as well. Cristian fearlessly puts himself in the water face to face with intimidating subjects such as piranha and caiman, dispelling stigmas through his lens, showing their behaviour, life history and unseen world. Some of his best-known work focuses on anacondas and octopuses in The Secrets of the Octopus. Wildly known for his work in Central and South America, Cristian has also worked with numerous subjects and locations from Norway to New Zealand. Cristian is dedicated to raising awareness and respect for nature.

Cristian’s work has graced IMAX and television screens and has been in productions for BBC, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and many others. He has been awarded an Emmy, exemplifying his creativity and expertise.

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07/12/2024

The white shark, like any true Canadian, can tolerate a wide range of temperatures!

These globetrotters can live in sub-arctic conditions and in-shore tropical waters making them ‘s most adaptable species!

Learn more: https://ow.ly/AqwA50SyGVh Shark Week

07/08/2024

****Speaker Announcement***
We are excited to announce Neal Po***ck as our "Safety" speaker, safety has so many different meanings and facets, we are looking forward Neal's talk.
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Neal W. Po***ck, PhD
Neal Po***ck holds a Research Chair in Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine (the first in Canada) and is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology at Université Laval in Québec, Canada. He was previously Research Director at Divers Alert Network (DAN) and conducted research at Duke University, both in Durham, North Carolina. His academic training is in zoology, exercise physiology, and environmental physiology. His research interests focus on human health and safety in extreme environments, including decompression safety for both divers and astronauts. He is an editor emeritus of the journal Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. He continues to serve as an Associate Editor for the journal Environmental, Aviation and Space Physiology, and on the editorial board of the journal Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. Originally from Alberta, he appreciates the opportunity to return to home territory.

07/05/2024

We are appreciative of the mention of Divescapes in the monthly newsletter of Canadian Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Association.
Thank you for your support

07/05/2024

****SPEAKER ANNOUCMENT*****
We are excited to announce Moronke Harris as a speaker. We saw TedEx Talks Victoria advertising her and new she would be a great fit for Divescapes.
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Moronke Harris (moronkeharrris.com) is an early-career scientist with experience in climate engineering and intergovernmental, multi-vessel research expedition planning on the high seas. She is fascinated with exploration, innovation, and the blue economy. Currently completing graduate studies in Oceanography at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada), her research focuses on innovation provided by the most unexplored areas of the ocean, containing the most potential for discovery. She has spent over 130 days of her life collaboratively exploring Earth's final frontier using submersibles.

Beyond academic pursuits, she is the founder of ‘The Imaginative Scientist’: a science communication and creative consulting brand blending traditional outreach and artistry to produce an audience-first approach that engages, invites, and inspires curiosity. Brand experience includes 60+ national and international speaking engagements, documentary narration, video production collaborations garnering 100,000+ views, and consultation for gallery installations, video game development, and film production.

She has been featured by TEDxVictoria, Jackson Wild, The National Film Board of Canada, Science World, and The Ocean Exploration Trust.

07/02/2024

Warm welcome to Divescapes'24 to Fly and Sea Dive Adventures

06/26/2024

Divescapes - yes, we've got Sponsors! With generously donated PRIZES. Thank you to Ocean Quest Adventures NL. Dive Charter & Stay Package will be offered as a Raffle Prize to help AUC raise funds for our Youth & Lake Cleanup programs!

06/24/2024

Thanks for the support from The Dive Shop (Calgary), welcome to this Divescapes '24 Exhibitor!

06/24/2024

A warm Alberta Underwater Council welcome to Divescapes 2024 Exhibitor! Thanks to www.NAUI.org

06/18/2024

SPEAKER ANNOUCMENT!!
Chris Harvey-Clark is returning to Divescapes to present on his Canadian White Shark Research
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Chris Harvey-Clark is a research veterinarian and marine biologist based at Dalhousie University. He an ongoing research program studying the biology of the Greenland shark and the Atlantic torpedo ray, species that are little known to science, and over 40 publications and book chapters on veterinary aspects of marine and wildlife species. An avid diver with over 3,000 dives since 1976, in 1996 he produced the first photo illustrated guide to North Atlantic marine life in Canada, “Eastern Tidepool and Reef’ a best seller at 10,000 copies, with an expanded new version “Maritime Marine Life’ released in 2021. In 2003 he was principal author of the Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines on the use of fish in research, teaching and testing, the first regulatory publication to recognise the ability of fish to feel pain and be subject to moral concern. He is actively involved in endangered marine species research ranging from sea otters and Atlantic Whitefish to blue whales, white sharks and leatherback sea turtles.
In his second career as an underwater image maker, he has been director of photography in over 50 marine themed documentaries. He published the first documentation of basking sharks mating in 1998 in the journal Copeia, did the first in Canada dives with blue sharks in 2000, filmed mako sharks underwater for the first time in Canada in 2002, and recorded Greenland sharks underwater under natural conditions for the first time 2003-2010, which resulted in 4 publications and numerous documentaries. He has had a tagging research program with the Ocean Tracking Network since 2014 investigating the movement and behaviour of the Atlantic torpedo ray. In October 2020 he used a cage while documenting Great White sharks underwater for the first time in Canadian waters. In November 2021 he and Canadian Navy Diver Michael Schwinghammer became the first divers in Canadian waters to have a prolonged encounter with a 10-foot Great White shark while open water diving on a shipwreck in Halifax Harbour. Chris recently won the 2023 Pottersfield Press national creative nonfiction award for his memoire, In Search of the Great Canadian Shark. In Fall 2023 he was at sea continuing 4 years work photo identifying individual white sharks in Canadian waters on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, which will be featured on Discovery Channel Shark Week July 2024.
He lives in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia.

06/11/2024

***Speaker Announcement***
We are excited to announce that Jonathon Moore from Parks Canada will be returning to Divescapes to provide us an update on the Franklin Expedition Projects.
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JONATHAN MOORE grew up in Kingston, Ontario where he got his start in both land and underwater archaeology. He learned to dive in 1988 and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Studies (Queen's University) and a Master’s degree in Maritime Studies (University of St. Andrews, Scotland). In 1994 he joined Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team based in Ottawa where he is now the team’s manager. Since 2008 he has been directly involved in the search for and study of historic ships in Canada’s Arctic. He is part of the Parks Canada-led team that searched for and is now studying the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror from the 1845 Franklin Expedition. He took part in the team’s discovery of Erebus in September 2014 and eight subsequent underwater archaeological projects at the wreck between 2015-2023. He participated in the team’s examination of the wreck of HMS Terror in 2016 and subsequent projects in 2017 and 2019. Jonathan was an inaugural recipient of the Governor General's Polar Medal.

06/07/2024

Chris Harvey-Clark Divescapes speaker 2014 has been busy check out his mission on his latest interview on CBC

In Search of the Great Canadian Shark is a new book by Chris Harvey-Clark, which looks back at over a half century of diving. He spoke with Mainstreet's Alex Mason to describe some of his experiences — and why swimming with sharks is a family tradition.

06/04/2024

The film telling the story of Jill Heinerth our Keynote Speaker 2024 and others is available for a short time to view at home!
https://divingintothedarkness.com/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1NTTEX8T7t7J52x3tMqH1NZQtiq9UXK6iQQVIfh5Lrg5jsM0F-inp0Yns_aem_ATFimVgnXSj98n7reHseif5wGaNbzx44J5Ma4DNf3m1Vo4geDr8U612mECmtp8NSflg3GnbrMhRHHNhHzAorWQ4y ://divingintothedarkness.com/

Diving Into The Darkness is a jaw-dropping yet intimate portrait of cave diving icon Jill Heinerth, and the nail-biting challenges and risks she's faced to go where no man or woman has gone before.

04/17/2024

An early favorite Divescapes presenter! Awesome, Mandy-Rae!

04/13/2024

FIRST SPEAKER ANNOUCMENT 2024
join us as we welcome Faith Ortins to speak at Divescapes Scuba Conference 2024.
Faith Ortins
She has spent most of her adult life in the ocean. Starting as a scientific diver and volunteering for public safety diving operations in the 1980’s, Faith became a technical diver and dive store owner with thousands of dives over her 40+ year diving career. She worked with DUI to develop some of the first women’s drysuits while still a dive retailer and led DUI’s sale team for 15 years. She created the DUI DEMOTOUR, which promoted local diving while allowing divers to test dive DUI products. She now manages Blue Green Expeditions. She has led expeditions around the world- many to the most remote places on Earth including multiple expeditions to both poles. A frequent presenter at dive shows and conferences, she is a 2010 inductee into the Women Divers Hall of Fame.

03/30/2024

Past Divescapes speaker Evan Kovacs making waves in underwater imagery
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Today, Argus Remote Systems proudly delivers an ROV to Marine Imaging Technologies, LLC, based in Cape Cod, USA.  This ROV represents the 150th vehicle manufactured by our team, marking a milestone in our journey of delivering innovative and reliable electric ROV systems. The ROV is equip

03/18/2024

Was great catching up with our fabulous sponsor Ocean Quest Adventures at both Boston Sea Rovers and Calgary Outdoor Show.
Looking forward to seeing you October 18 and 19 in Calgary at Divescpes 2024
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05/16/2023

What a great loss to our dive community!

Thank you so much to Dr. Phil Nuytten for DIVER MAGAZINE's amazing support and sponsorship of the Alberta Underwater Council Divescapes Scuba Conference over the years! Including sharing your story as a speaker at Divescapes 2001 in Edmonton.

Our condolences to your family, friends, dive buddies & more!

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of DIVER Publisher and owner Phil Nuytten.

For some, Phil will be remembered as one of the most important ocean explorers and pioneers in modern history, for others he will be the Publisher of North America’s longest printing dive magazine.

But he was a lot more; he was a father, a successful songwriter, an incredible artist, a pillar in the First Nations community, a dear friend to many, and a Canadian icon.

He was an incredibly interesting, intelligent and warm soul - and one of the greatest storytellers you’d ever meet. His exploits were legendary, and his engineering mind was revolutionary.

Phil was very proud of DIVER magazine and took his obligation to its readers very seriously. He was thankful for you all, and always appreciated the chance to talk in person, or read letters.

More will be published at a later time.

Thank you.

03/29/2023

Incredible Recognition of the Discoveries from the Castlegard Cave

Tom Crisp Divescapes 2022 presented on the wonders but also the difficulties of exploring this cave, right here in Alberta.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=639607194844617&id=100063860267469&mibextid=Nif5oz

Thanks to a sightless, translucent creature, Canada’s most famous cave is being recognized for its unique species and harsh ecosystem