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Title Name Area Contact
President Kal Helyar Sechelt Inlet PorpoiseBay@telus.net
Vice President John DeBoeck Nigei Island Hideaway@VancouverIslandDive.com
j_deboeck@yahoo.ca
Secretary Barb Roy All BC GrandmaScuba@Hotmail.com
Treasurer Angela Lee N. Vancouver info@brookspaddlegear.com
Director Deirdre Forbes McCracken Burnaby oq@diveoceanquest.com
Director Jan Breckman Vancouver Info@SeaDragonCharters.com
Director Ed Singer Nanaimo SundownDiving@Shaw.ca
Director Andy Lamb Thetis Island Andy@Cedar-Beach.com
Director Royse Jackson Thetis Island info@DiveIDC.com

President

Kal Helyar, DIABC President

Kal Helyar

Porpoise Bay Charters
PO Box 2281
Port Sechelt, BC V0N 2A0

1-800-665-2483
1-604-885-5950

porpoisebay@telus.net
www.PorpoiseBayCharters.com

Kal has been diving for over 20 years and has been in the Dive Industry for more then 15 years. He has been in the Charter business since 1991. Most his diving experience has been in North America. He quotes in regard of BC, "British Columbia, Canada has Shore Diving, Wall Diving, Wreck Diving, Boat Diving, Current Diving, Drift Diving and soooo so much more!" End of Paragraph.

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Vice President

John deBoeck, DIABC Vice President

John deBoeck

Browning Pass Hideaway
PO Box 425
Nanaimo, BC V9R 5N2

1-877-725-2835
1-250-753-3751

Hideaway@VancouverIslandDive.com
j_deboeck@yahoo.ca
www.VancouverIslandDive.com

For 35 years John has been diving across the world to places such as Caribbean, Mexico, Fiji, New Zealand, and of course here locally in British Columbia. He's been in the Diving Industry for 28 years now and started his Charter and Dive Resort in 2002. Mr. deBoeck, "There are more moving critters per square meter than I have ever seen anywhere else. There is always something happening on every dive and every dive is different, especially in Browning Pass!" End of Paragraph.

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Treasure & Secretary

Barb Roy, DIABC Treasure & Secretary

Barb Roy

Innerspace Productions
13437 94a Ave.
Surrey, BC V3V 1M9

1-604-588-1588
GrandmaScuba@Hotmail.com
www.BarbRoyPhotography.com

Barb splashed into the cold water scuba diving scene almost 30 years ago in 1979. She opened her first dive shop in Anchorage, Alaska (1980) and currently freelances in BC and across the world as a photojournalist. She took over Innerspace Productions and brought it up to Canada in 1997. In her line of work (journalism) she has had the opportunity to travel to many wonderful places around the world. Barb states, "I enjoy BC's awesome selection of dive areas to choose from year round. I've never seen such a wide array of marine life that British Columbia has to offer, anywhere else in the world." End of Paragraph.

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Director

Deirdre Forbes McCracken, DIABC Director

Deirdre Forbes McCracken

Ocean Quest Dive Centre
#107 - 3790 Canada Way, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
V5G 1G4

1-604-436-1157
Fax: 1-604-436-2191
oq@diveoceanquest.com
www.diveoceanquest.com

Barb splashed into the cold water scuba diving scene almost 30 years ago in 1979. She opened her first dive shop in Anchorage, Alaska (1980) and currently freelances in BC and across the world as a photojournalist. She took over Innerspace Productions and brought it up to Canada in 1997. In her line of work (journalism) she has had the opportunity to travel to many wonderful places around the world. Barb states, "I enjoy BC's awesome selection of dive areas to choose from year round. I've never seen such a wide array of marine life that British Columbia has to offer, anywhere else in the world." End of Paragraph.

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Director

Jan Breckman, DIABC Director

Jan Breckman

Sea Dragon Charters
8071 Wiltshire Blvd.
Delta, BC V4C 4B5

1-604-329-3486
Info@SeaDragonCharters.com
www.SeaDragonCharters.com

Scuba diving has been apart of Jan's life since 1980 and she became involved with the Diving Industry shortly afterwards in 1982. She has been running Blue Adventures Dive Charters for the past 8 years. "BC has a unique topography, it's very wild and is easy to get to. The marine life is so colorful. Also, if you dive here a lot, you'll become very proficient & confident in your skills!" End of Paragraph.

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Director

Ed Singer, DIABC Director

Ed Singer

Sundown Diving
22 Esplanade
Nanaimo, BC

1-888-773-.3483
1-250-753-1880

SundownDiving@Shaw.ca
www.SunDownDiving.com

For more than 25 years in the diving scene, Ed has been diving it up! Ed has been in the Diving business for 22 years (since 1984) as a store owner and a commercial diver for 23. He dived quite a few places around the world and believes he still has more dive places to go! What he like best, "Not just a sandy bottom, but diversity of life, including vegetation. British Columbia is unlike anywhere else in the world!" End of Paragraph.

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Director

Crystal Lambert, DIABC Director

Andy Lamb

Cedar Beach B&B Dive Resort.
120 Clam Bay Road
Thetis Island, BC
V0R 2Y0

1-250-246-9770


andy@cedar-beach.com
www.cedar-beach.com

Scott and his wife bought Alpha Dive Services in Powell River, BC back in August of 2006. He's a retired Naval Clearance Diver of 22 years in the service and has dived all around the world. Both coasts of N. America, Bermuda, Hawaii, S. China Sea, Norway and the list keeps going on! What he likes most about BC, "the diversity of life, from large marine mammals to the tiny nudibranchs. From the diverse underwater geography, nice sandy beache shore entries, to sheer walls that drop to 600 meters deep! All within a short distance from each other." End of Paragraph.

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Director

Crystal Lambert, DIABC Director

Royse Jackson

International Diving Centre.
2572 Arbutus St.
Vancouver BC
V6J3Y2

(604) 736-2541
1-866-432-DIVE(3483)

info@diveidc.com
www.diveidc.com/

Scott and his wife bought Alpha Dive Services in Powell River, BC back in August of 2006. He's a retired Naval Clearance Diver of 22 years in the service and has dived all around the world. Both coasts of N. America, Bermuda, Hawaii, S. China Sea, Norway and the list keeps going on! What he likes most about BC, "the diversity of life, from large marine mammals to the tiny nudibranchs. From the diverse underwater geography, nice sandy beache shore entries, to sheer walls that drop to 600 meters deep! All within a short distance from each other." End of Paragraph.

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