THE INDUSTRY RESPONDS

Rebreather Association of International Divers

Always the innovator, RAID has made the biggest change to the dive training industry in years; by making sure that everyone, from non-divers to instructor trainers from any dive agency, can have complete access to every level of their extensive online academics and quizzes for FREE. RAID announced on March 27, 2020,. RAID was the first fully online diver training agency, and the time is right to launch RAID’s next-generation innovation – FREe-Learning. Paul Toomer, president RAID International, said that opening up the company’s full curriculum for anyone to browse is part of what he referred to as “The RAID Way”. Toomer explained, “We do not want to stand in the way of anyone staying engaged with the sport, especially now. During these trying times, it is often easy to have a knee-jerk reaction and become reactive and not proactive. We are providing options to our dive centres and professionals that will actually make a difference. We are not keen on just making press releases that don’t actually say anything. We are also not wanting to use the pandemic as some sort of profit centre. And most importantly, we will not release initiatives that will only last while we are in times of suffering and are then taken away when the world returns to normality.”