Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Dive Flag in Lost Divers
I was looking around some sites looking for good SCUBA stories this morning and I discovered this story about some divers who went missing in Lake Michigan. http://www.wisn.com/news/24141974/detail.html The two men were apparently searching a wreck 8 miles from shore when they failed to return. Reports say that these two men raised the attention of [...]
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Dive Flag in Blog
One of the things we love most about the H.E.L.P. is the face that it is easy and straight forward to use. A lot of people don’t understand quite how easy it is to use until they see it in action. The average deployment of the H.E.L.P. is around 3 seconds (we have tested it [...]
Posted on 26. Mar, 2010 by Dive Flag in Blog
We are delighted to let you all know that we have a stand at The Dive Show this weekend! The event is expected to attract over 14,000 visitors this weekend and looking around as we set up there is loads to see and do! We are on stand 242 and if you would like a [...]
Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Dive Flag in Blog
We have always maintained that the H.E.L.P. was designed to help out divers with getting seen when they surface from a dive. However the flags do get used for a number of different reasons. One guy asked if he could buy one for his boat, he uses it to signal when he has his lobster [...]
Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Dive Flag in Blog
Yesterday we decided it would be a bit of a boost for the flag to put out a Press Release telling the world of its existence. Lets face facts there are a few million divers in the world and the site has only so far been seen by a small number. From this exercise there [...]
Posted on 24. Dec, 2009 by Dive Flag in Blog
We spend a lot of time looking around for information on getting rescued at sea and lost divers who have been found and made it back to shore safely.
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Dive Flag in Blog
OK so we know it is extending and we know that it is compact we even know that it is a flag for people who are in a situation where they need to get attention and get seen. However we also know that there are lots of other uses for the dive flag, some funny, some stupid and some are really quite helpful……..OK maybe one or two are quite helpful.
Posted on 19. Jul, 2009 by Dive Flag in Blog
I was listening to a young girl in a dive store the other day and her Dad being an avid diver was looking around at all the different items in the shop and one of those items happened to have a massive sign across the front that simply read SCUBA Gear. Now I know it [...]
Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by Dive Flag in Blog
Reading a story on the Irish Times website about an 18 year old hill walker who was rescued from a mountain side by a coast guard helicopter. Now this guy was lucky to be seen and is not the first hillwalker to go missing of late, the high profile disappearance of a British backpacker, Richard [...]
Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by Dive Flag in Blog
Yes we finally did it we managed to get our beloved camera man to get off the dry land and on the boat so we could see the Dive Flag in action! While we were shooting the below video there was a moment where we sent the two divers off under the waves so we [...]