Tom Laeird became a diver in 1960 and an instructor 1969.
He open s dive store part-time in 1970.
He retired from business life in 1988 and took on SCUBA full-time.
Tom has written nine books for YMCA NATIONAL SCUBA Program and three for SEI Diving.
his Instructor group has taught over 4000 divers and 250 new instructors.
We are known for service to our customers.
we provide support services for lesson in Muncie, New Castle and Anderson YMCAs plus three in Indianapolis area and others around the mid-west.we also support Ball State and Anderson universities.
now rhat YMCA of the USA has ended support for Yscuba Program, Tom started a new agency called
Scuba Educators International. SEI Diving has instructors in eight countries and throughout the USA. See SCUBA Lesson for more information on this new agency.
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Tom Leaird, S.E.I. CEO, has officially begun his term as a member of the Board of Directors DEMA (Diving and Equipment Management Association). He will serve a three year term and will represent training agencies. Tom was able to travel to San Diego, California February 21-23 for Board Member orientation and his first quarterly Board Meeting.
"SEI Diving gives me the tools to make a real difference in diver training, by putting the needs of the student first."
The word 'SCUBA' is an acronym for "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus", but it has become acceptable to refer to 'scuba equipment' or 'scuba apparatus'. The term SCUBA in common usage usually means open-circuit equipment in which gas (usually air) is breathed from a tank of compressed gas and then exhaled into the water, usually in the line of kit development started by Emile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau. However, rebreathers (both semi-closed circuit and closed circuit) are also self-contained systems (as opposed to surface-supplied systems) and could be classed as SCUBA. The term SCUBA arose during World War II and originally referred to USA combat frogmen's oxygen rebreathers, developed by Dr. Christian Lambertsen for underwater warfare Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, an instrument used on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
SCUBA is sensitive to the thermal emission from interstellar dust. This emission is a tracer of star formation in other galaxies and gives astronomers clues to the presence, distance, and evolution history of galaxies other than our own. Within our own galaxy dust emission is associated with stellar nurserys and planet forming solar systems
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