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Achievement award for DIVER publisher
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Bernard Eaton, head of the DIVER Group, was presented with the first London Leadership Award at last weekend's inaugural London Festival of Diving.
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The award was presented by Mike Busuttili, a former senior officer of the British Sub-Aqua Club and the man who taught him to dive, for Eaton's 'outstanding contribution to the British diving community'.
London Divers, which runs the festival, has created the London Leadership Award to recognise achievement, innovation, leadership and those who work toward the 'bigger picture' of diving in the UK.
The first award has gone to Eaton in recognition of his effect on British diving over the course of 43 years – and that has been fundamentally through his stewardship of DIVER magazine.
'It's impossible to understand the history and evolution of British diving without acknowledging the central role that Bernard Eaton has played in that process,' said Louise Trewavas, Chair of Holborn BSAC, sponsor of the award and co-organiser of the London Festival of Diving (pictured with Bernard Eaton). 'His contribution has already been recognised in the US Diving Hall of Fame; it's time for us to honour our own!'
Launched in 1963 as Triton, DIVER served until 1998 as the British Sub-Aqua Club's members' magazine, while selling additionally on the open market. Now a fully independent title, it remains the UK's top-selling diving magazine.
In all this time, Eaton has produced a title reflecting British diving training and activity, concerns of the diving community and developments of note.
In the years of partnership with the BSAC, he worked closely with the club on training or campaigning issues. And outside the club he helped, for instance, to launch and promote the Marine Conservation Society.
Eaton has organised numerous awards schemes, in particular for underwater photography, and remains connected with the annual Diver Awards, in which the diving public votes for its favourite industry players.
Based in Teddington, Middlesex, the Diver Group constitutes three companies. Eaton Publications produces DIVER and two Scandinavian diving magazines; Underwater World Publications publishes British diving guidebooks and retails other marine titles; and Dive Shows Ltd runs the two UK dive shows in spring and autumn. |
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