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Deep dive Get into the detail Drill down Investigate in depth [1] Flogging a dead horse: Wasting efforts [1] Have the vendor in our pocket Keep a vendor/contractors paid Ideate Come up with ideas [1] Land and expand To sell a small solution and then grow it within the client's environment Make hay Productive or successful in a short time [1 ...
A trade name, trading name, or business name is a pseudonym used by companies that do not operate under their registered company name. [1] The term for this type of alternative name is fictitious business name. [1] Registering the fictitious name with a relevant government body is often required.
A diving operation is a professional dive and the activity in preparation for, and in support of, the specific dive. The diving operation is controlled by the diving supervisor, is expected to follow the dive plan, is conducted by the diving team, and is recorded in the diving operations record (though the terms may have regional variations).
In 2017, Providence Equity Partners LLC sold PADI [15] to Canadian investment firm Altas Partners and French private equity firm Florac for 700 million USD, through an entity called Mandarin fish Holding. [16] In 2018, PADI launched PADI Travel, an online dive travel resource and booking platform for dive resort and live-aboard packages. [17]
Surface supplied commercial diving equipment on display at a trade show. Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering, maintenance or other commercial purposes which are similar to work done out of the water, and where the diving is usually secondary to the work.
The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI Worldwide) is a nonprofit association of scuba instructors founded in 1960 by Albert Tillman and Neal Hess. [2] [3]NAUI primarily serves as a recreational dive certification and membership organization, providing international diver standards and education programs.
Helix Energy Solutions Inc., known as Cal Dive International prior to 2006, is an American oil and gas services company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is a global provider of offshore services in well intervention and ROV operations of new and existing oil and gas fields .
The term dive was first used in the press in the U.S. in 1880s to describe disreputable places that were often in basements into which one "dives below". [3]: 1 A dive bar may also be known as "brown bars" or "brown pubs" in parts of Western Europe and Northern Europe, for example brun bar or brun pub in Norway. [4] [5] [6]