RAID International Appoints Mark McCrum As Recreational Training Director

Published 12 years agoon June 4, 2014

It’s been quite the week for announcements from RAID International about the appointment of key positions within the organisation.

Following the news yesterday that SSI’s former International Training Director of Freediving Mike Wells has joined RAID as their new Director of Freediving, today the organisation has announced that they have appointed SSI’s former International Training Director and General Manager of SSI’s Australasia operation Mark McCrumb as their new Recreational Training Director.

Here is the official press release:

RAID International is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark McCrum to the position of Recreational Training Director for RAID. Mark joins the growing and highly experienced RAID Executives, Instructor Trainers, Instructors and store owners moving to RAID (www.diveraid.com).

Mark started a diving and training career while in the Royal Australian Air Force. As an Air Force trainer he gained skills in training that would lead to an extensive career in training for the dive industry. Mark started diving in 1984 and became a dive professional in 1986. From there he started a 30 year diving journey that has taken him around the world. Mark has been involved in diver training at the highest level and has held qualifications in PADI, SSI and now RAID.

For the last 6 years Mark has been in the role of International Training Director and General Manager for SSI in Australasia. He has extensive background in dive shop business training having been involved in the training of sales skills, customer service, equipment servicing and customer relationship functions for more than 20 years.

Mark’s experience comes from having been a part of almost every area of the dive industry. He has worked in diver training, wholesale, retail, resort operations, dive training agencies and Australian Recognised Training Organisations. Most recently he won a Service Skills Australia Excellence Award for industry collaboration in training with a self authored Marine Research Diver Programme.

Having been appointed Recreational Training Director for RAID he brings 3 decades of dive industry experience to the organization.