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Another leap year beginning and a boom about global warming made many
Russians think over the necessity of mastering diving in practice.
Rewording a well-known Russian saying “in July your sledge remember,
prepare your diving equipment in December”, they all have become eager
to learn about the underwater world, began searching for specialties of
diving equipment of the world best brands and choosing the most
beautiful dive-sites for testing this equipment. Today there are
already more than 6 million divers in the world. And it is only the
main event for Russian divers, Festival “Golden Dolphin”, that has
shown how numerous are they in this country and what a strong
contribution the Russian diving association makes into the world dive
industry development.
The International Festival “Golden Dolphin”, the
largest specialized selling exhibition in Eastern Europe related to
diving, spearfishing, trophy fishing and aquatic recreation, and the
“underwater” Photo&Film Festival took place in Gostiny Dvor in
Moscow on February 14–17, 2008.
The exhibition 2008 has attracted
not only professionals, who became able to view and purchase the most
recent equipment presented by the world-wide industry leaders, but also
non-professionals and newcomers. The wide spectrum of training
programs, such as PADI, SSI, IANTD, NAUI, CMAS, has been offered to the
latter.
PRESS-CONFERENCE DEVOTED TO THE FESTIVAL OPENING AND PRESENTATION OF ACTIVITY PROGRAM ON FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Presidium Members:
Gennady Grutsya – President of the Festival
Oleg Chebykin – “Aquatex” company founder
Kirill Modylevsky – President of Creative part of the Festival
Cynthia Norton – Assistant Secretary of the Department of Tourism of the Philippines
Stephan Mitchel – Vice-President of the Mares Company
Valentin Stashevsky – President of Russian Underwater Activity Confederation
Stepan Obraztsov – Representative of the Company “Panet of the Fisherman”
Valdis Pelsh – popular TV-presenter
Yana Churikova – Art Director of the Festival
The Festival has started with a morning press-conference. Due to the rousing speech of Yana Churikova
(presenter of official events and the project art director in one) the
festival opening press-conference has passed lively. It is no secret
that with the years of “Golden Dolphin” being held, the Festival
general Partners have become real friends. Stephan Mitchel, Vice-President of the Mares Company, and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Tourism of the Philippines – Cynthia Norton
gave golden smiles in camera flashes, amused their talk and let off
jokes addressed to public and journalists. In general, it was
interesting to everybody contrary to the common rules of such official
events.
About 150 journalists representing more than 90 foreign and Russian mass-media have been accredited to the Festival.
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