In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you will hear from Jim Standing about the diving industry’s new commitment to saving our oceans called Mission 2020.
Welcome To The Show!
Welcome to the dive locker podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.
Hello dive industry friends, I hope you are all weathering this Coronavirus pandemic. We are in one of the most significant events in world history. My kids will tell their kids and grandkids, “we lived through the Coronavirus.” These are unsettling times and I pray for your health and safety as well as financial success once this has passed.
DEMA Requests Funds for Diving Industry
To share a little hope about financial success, DEMA has joined with the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable, a coalition of recreational businesses, to request funding from the federal government to help all recreation businesses, including those in the diving industry. DEMA is also communicating with federal agencies such as the Small Business Administration to obtain access to funds in this crisis. You can actually read the letter written to President Trump from the DEMA email or I’ll put the link on our show notes page.
Mission 2020
On today’s episode you are going to hear something extremely encouraging in our diving industry. It is called Mission 2020. It is the brainchild of Jim Standing and Paul Strike of Fourth Element. They’ve had a passion for ocean conservation for a long time and they created a line within their brand called OceanPositive that uses only sustainable materials in manufacturing, but then they realized the need to be responsible in their packaging as well. Once they made that change they decided to get other diving equipment manufacturers to be on board as well. Thus the Mission 2020 was born and it is being embraced by everyone. And guess what? You can be a part of this movement too as a dive center, resort, livaboard or independent instructor even. You will learn about this initiative and how you can be part of this diving industry campaign for ocean health.
Jim and Paul are one of the most outstanding and progressive thinkers in our industry and you can see it not only in the wild success of their brand Fourth Element, but in the way that they’re able to get everyone in the industry, even their competitors, on board with Mission 2020.
Joining Mission 2020
So you should be a part of this as well. I did with NSUADP. Our pledge is as follows “The Nova Southeastern University Academic Diving Program pledges the following towards helping our oceans: Encourage all divers to have their own drinking bottle as part of their standard dive kit. Encourage all divers to use coral safe sunscreens. And, encourage divers to leave all dive sites cleaner than they were when they arrived.” You upload your logo, contact name and email address and you are part of the mission. And what’s cool is that when you have made your pledge you get resources like a variety of Mission 2020 logos and proper wording examples to use to promote it on your websites and social media. This really is something you can and should be a part of.
Colonize The Ocean Podcast
Oh, and if during this time of hunkering down and staying home you want to listen to something entertaining, check out the Colonize the Ocean Podcast. These guys, Adam and Brendon, have a podcast dedicated to living under the sea. I love the idea because I have fantasized about that ever since I was a child. All these things on TV and movies where people live underwater – most of the time it’s in evil lairs, I don’t know why that is. But at any rate, these guys invited me on their show and interviewed me. I have a great story of Jules Undersea Lodge in the Florida Keys that I talk about on there as well as other things. They are a lot of fun so check out that episode I’ll put the link in this show notes page.
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