4th Annual Dive For a Cause - Event Details Finalized

July 3, 2010

This year's event will feature an underwater poker run. We look forward to great fun as we raise funds for Tobermor Chamber and prizes for participants.

All event details have been finalized and are published on our venue page. This years event is being held at the Welland Scuba Park, Welland, ON on August 28, 2010. Please check the venue page for:

See you all there.
~Dive For a Cause Organizing Committee

Meet our volunteers, and help kick-off our pledge drive at the OUE Scuba Swap

April 17, 2010


Be sure to come out to the OUE Scuba Swap on Saturday, April 17th starting at 9am. In addition to great scuba deals you may also make a donation to help start our 2010 pledge drive. A number of Dive For a Cause volunteers will be on hand to provide more details on the event.

See you there!

Hart House Underwater Club
4th Annual Underwater Pumpking and Shore Carving Event

on October 17th, 2009

Join Heart House Underwater Club and other OUC member divers as we carve pumpkins and together Dive For a Cause this weeked at Cherry Beach park. All event details are available here.

Event Details Finalized

July 15, 2009

All event details have been finalized and are published on our venue page. This years event is being held at the Welland Scuba Park, Welland, ON on August 29, 2009. Please check the venue page for:

See you all there.
~Dive For a Cause Organizing Committee

2009 Pledge Drive - Working To Make A Difference

July 13, 2009



Our volunteer divers are out there working hard to raise funds for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of chronic non-healing wounds. Their efforts are helping make a difference between a healed wound or amputation for someone.

There are many ways you can help make a difference:

AquaSub's Divestock Joins D4C As A Satellite Event

July 12, 2009


We welcome Divestock as a Dive For a Cause satellite event.

Dive stock is an annual diving event organized by the AquaSub Scuba Diving Centre that features a weekend of fun divings and lots of prizes in Tobermory, ON during the September 5, 2009 long weekend.

Two divers who raise the most will be honoured with a special gift.

Meet our volunteers, and help kick-off our pledge drive at the OUE Scuba Swap

April 20, 2009


Be sure to come out to the OUE Scuba Swap on Saturday, April 25th starting at 9am. In addition to great scuba deals you may also make a donation to help start our 2009 pledge drive. A number of Dive For a Cause volunteers will be on hand to provide more details on the event.

See you there!

2009 Voting Results

April 20, 2009

Thank you to all those who voted for the 2009 charity. Judy Dan Wound Care Center was chosen by 53% of the voters. The votes were counted by Mike Krznaric and verified by Elois Davis.

The Centre provides Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for patients with chronic Diabetic non-healing wounds. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can expedite the healing of certain types of chronic, non-healing wounds. We look forward to raise vital funds for this great charity through diving.

Support remains strong for a number of other charities dear to friends and families of our diving community. We look forward to an opportunity to raise funds for these charities in the future years. Join our pledge drive today.

Dive For a Cause 2008

We did it! Thank you.

January 24, 2009

I am pleased to report that, for a second year in a row, Etobicoke Underwater Club’s Dive For a Cause committee had organized and executed a successful, safe and enjoyable event with strong support from EUC members, family and friends. This year we also welcomed Hart House Underwater Club (HHUC) as a partner in this event. Our event is becoming widely known within the scuba community and will undoubtedly attract new participants in the coming years.

This years’ event consisted of the primary part, held on August 23, 2008 at Chippewa Creek, Niagara Falls, ON and a satellite event organized by HHUC and held at Cherry Beach, Toronto, ON on October 25, 2008. In total we had 35 registered participants raising a total of $7,570.00 for Epilepsy Research in North America. Our American participants had collected USD funds and those funds were donated to Citizens United For Epilepsy Research (CURE), Chicago, IL while the funds collected by our Canadian participants were donated to Epilepsy Ontario, University of Toronto Epilepsy Research Program (UTERP).

Our event would not have been possible without the volunteer time, funds and good will donated by many of our fellow divers, family and friends. Together we re-enforced that, as scuba divers, we are ready, willing and able to make a difference within our greater community.

I would like to thank our sponsors, Ontario Underwater Explorers (OUE) the organizers of the Scuba Swap and DJ Woods Productions Inc. for their in-kind donations. Finally I invite you all to join next year in Dive-ing For a Cause.

More details and photos are available in final event report.

Mike Krznaric
Chairperson, 2008 Dive For a Cause

See you next Saturday

August 16, 2008

With less than a week away from our 2nd Annual Event, the excitement is in the air amongst EUC members. Our organizational structure and responsibilities are as follows: Mike Krznaric, Event Chairperson, Lori Lynch, Safety Chairperson, Cameron McArthur Volunteer Chairperson. The Divemaster in charge, safety team and so on will be announced the day of the event.

As soon as you arrive please do the following 3 things:
1. Register at the registration desk
2. Locate the diver coordinator and find out the entry details and logistics (ie. when you will be going in, where you will be going in, how will you get to the entry point)
3. Assemble your gear to be ready to enter when your time comes up

The morning of the event our Safety Team together with the divemasters will evaluate the dive site (looking for things like current flow, visibility, boat traffic). Should they decide to cancel the dive one of the following 2 things may happen:
1. We will proceed to the alternate site and complete the dive there. Alternate site details will be available at the original site and via our Dive Line 888-203-4318
or
2. The diving portion of our event will be cancelled. Actual diving is not a requirement to participate in the event. Should a participant not feel well, not feel comfortable or just plain not feel like diving they just have to inform the divemaster that they will not be going in (no reason required). Just like on any other dive a person only dives if they feel up to it.

Finally.... remember to call our Dive Line (888) 203-4318 the night before and the morning of the event for info on any last minute changes.

See you at the event.
Mike Krznaric
Event Chairperson

Full Event Logistics Now Available

July 19, 2008

This years dive will again be a drift dive which will take place in Welland Canal (aka Chippawa Creek). Full event details are now available. Visit the logistics page for all the WHO, HOW, WHEN, WHERE and the full DIVE PLAN. Be sure to review the new requirements and cautions posted for the 2008 event.

Hart House Underwater Club (HHUC) Planning a Satelite Event

July 19, 2008

Hart House Underwater Club executive have expressed interest in running a satelite event. Their intention is to run the satelite event during their annual pumpking carving. Dive For a Cause subcommittee members are very excited to have another club join our efforts.

Pledge Drive Begins

June 24, 2008

We have receved permission from both the Canadian (Epilepsy Ontario) and American (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy - CURE) charities to proceed with our fundraiser. All registered divers will be receiving their sponsor forms via email within a few days. If you have not registered as a diver for 2008 please do so now.

All collected funds will be directed towards Epilepsy research. Canadian donations will be directed to Dr. Mac Burnham's research at University of Toronto Epilepsy Research program (UTERP). US donations will be directed to a research under Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE).


Epilepsy Ontario is a registered charitable non-profit non-governmental health organization dedicated to promoting independence and optimal quality of life for children and adults living with seizure disorders, by promoting information, a wareness, support services, advocacy, education and research. Epilepsy Ontario and its affiliates serve a population of more than 12 million people in an area of more than 1.1 million square kilmetres. This is an area larger than France and Spain combined. At its greatest, Ontario spans an east/west distance of 1,690 km. and a north/south distance of 1,730 km.

CURE, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization founded by parents of children with epilepsy who were frustrated with their inability to protect their children from the devastation of seizures and the side effects of medications. Unwilling to sit back and accept the debilitating effects of epilepsy, these parents joined forces to spearhead the search for a cure. Administrative costs are kept to a minimum, so that money raised can go directly towards finding a cure.

Election Results are In

June 19, 2008

A big thank you to all the participants that voted. It was a close vote with three charities coming within a few votes from each other. As a result we had to make sure we get as many participants voting as possible to best represent our divers wishes.

In the end Eplilepsy was chosen as the recipient cause for all donations collected during our 2008 pledge drive. Epilepsy is a condition that affects a great number of our friends, relatives and neighbours with a number of charitable organizations working to help through research, support and awareness. Due to the international nature of our event we have chosen a Canadian and a US charity. We must now recieve the proper permissions and authorization to use the logos and materials related to these charities in our pledge drive. This work is almost complete! We have already recieved authorization from the Canadian charity and are just awaiting to hear from the American charity. Our pledge drive begins as soon as we finish this due diligence work.

See us at the OUE Scuba Swap

April 26, 2008

Welcome to all the visitors who saw our team at the Ontario Underwater Explorers (OUE) Scuba Swap. A well deserved thank you goes out to the OUE team for yet again putting on a great event and for sponsoring "Dive For a Case". Thank you for your support.

Be sure to mark down next years scuba swap date as April 25, 2009.

2008 Charity Election

April 15, 2008

The 2008 Dive For a Cause organizing committee has been hard at work for the past few months. Our nominating sub-committee has put forward 4 choices for this years election. All participants in last years event will have 1 vote towards their charity choice for 2008. Please watch you inbox sometime this week for your ballot.

All other divers we look forward to having you join us for the 2008 event.

The following charities have been nominated

  • Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  • Epilepsy
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • International Vasa Previa Foundation

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