DEMA Show, Las Vegas: Diveplanit Travel is exhibiting once again at the world's largest dive industry expo, showcasing Australia's best diving destinations with an exciting line-up of seminars – and a chance to win a trip down under!

This year, Diveplanit will share destination knowledge on the Great Barrier Reef, a journey from North to South of over 2000 km, including a reef health update following this year's global mass bleaching event, and showcase Australia's Great Eight – our very best marine encounters, from minke whales to leafy sea dragons.

Competition

PLUS, delegates will have an opportunity to win a trip down under simply by attending our seminars. The prize includes:

• Return Economy flights for two people from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Brisbane or Sydney with United Airlines
• 3-night liveaboard trip for two people diving the Ribbon Reefs onboard Spirit of Freedom
• 4-night diving & accommodation package for two people diving the Southern Great Barrier Reef – from Heron Reef to Lady Musgrave Island with Dive Spear Sport 1770

Diveplanit has curated a collection of Australian DEMA Show Group specials, with exclusive discounts and generous tour leader allowances, that include easy add-ons to your Great Barrier Reef experience to explore the Daintree Rainforest and Sydney – above and below water, as well as packages for Ningaloo Reef, 1770 and private minke whale charters.

Details of DEMA Group Specials can be found here: https://www.diveplanit.com/group-trips/

Our line-up of seminars is as follows:

THE GREAT BARRIER REEF EXPLAINED - FROM NORTH TO SOUTH

Stretching for 1429 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. Along its vast length, expect a wide array of diving experiences, from pelagic action and exciting drift dives in the remote Coral Sea Reefs, encounters with minke whales and giant potato cod on the Ribbon Reefs in the far north, to close encounters with nesting turtles on Heron Island and mating mantas on Lady Elliot Island in the far south. Diveplanit's GBR experts will show you where to go, when to go, what you'll see and how to get there.

AUSTRALIA'S MOST UNIQUE MARINE ENCOUNTERS

Australia boasts many truly unique marine encounters. Only down under can you: swim with dwarf minke whales on the Great Barrier Reef, watch manta trains on Lady Elliot Island, swim with whale sharks on Ningaloo Reef. In Sydney, we'll show you where to find weedy sea dragons, and the hidden macro wonders of Sydney Harbour. In South Australia, go in search of leafy sea dragons - creatures found nowhere else in the world, great white sharks at the Neptune Islands, and of course, there's the enormous orgy of over 200,000 giant cuttlefish in Whyalla.

REEF HEALTH UPDATE - CITIZEN SCIENCE OPPORTUNITIES

This year the world's coral reefs suffered a widespread mass bleaching event. In this presentation we'll provide a reef health update for the Great Barrier Reef and demonstrate how citizen science is helping to survey this vast reef system - and how you can help. Whether that's visiting the GBR to see for yourself and record your findings, or sitting at home a thousand miles away, helping to analyse the thousands of images uploaded by divers, snorkelers and tour operators every day to a global database.

Seminar Times & Location:

• Tue 19 11AM Room S206 – The Great Barrier Reef Explained
• Wed 20 11AM Room S206 – Australia's Most Unique Marine Encounters
• Thu 21 11AM Room S206 – Great Barrier Reef Health Update

Media Enquiries: Deborah Dickson-Smith – 0419 618 466

deborah@diveplanit.com

Diveplanit Travel Pty Ltd

About Diveplanit Travel:

Diveplanit Travel is a specialist scuba diving travel agency and wholesaler. It's founders, Deborah Dickson-Smith and Simon Mallender, are scuba divers and passionate ocean advocates, whose main mission in life is to encourage more people to see first-hand how incredible the underwater world really is, and hopefully care more about looking after it.

Specialising in tailor-made diving holidays for individuals and groups of all sizes – the Diveplanit Travel team pride themselves on finding the best travel combination for each client, taking care of everything along the way, from airfares and accommodation to dive equipment and transfers.