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Old February 9th, 2006
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The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Well - after all the nominations were collected, voting started. After the polls closed we totalled up the final vote tally and here are the final results:All winners are being notified shortly of their prizes. Alison is being awarded her prize posthumously and we are donating the value of her prize to the British Red Cross.

A big THANK YOU to all who nominated, and then voted!

An even BIGGER THANK YOU to our sponsors:
  • Eliossub
    providing a 5mm Smoothskin / Open cell Neoprene Heiwa Wetsuit
  • Spearo
    providing a Venom Carbon 90cm Speargun
  • Leaderfins
  • providing a Flyer Monofin and Classic Stereo Fins
  • Seven Tenths
  • providing 2 x £25 GBP Gift Certificates
  • Liquivision
    $150 USD Certificate against a F1 Dive Assistant
In addition we are providing the following prizes:
  • Weekend at the S.E.T.T. 30m Dive Tank with Accomodation (no flights though!)
  • Gift Certificates for the DeeperBlue.net Shop (in 50 Euro, 100 Euro and 250 Euro increments)
  • Copies of Umberto Pelizzari's "Manual of FreeDiving"
  • DeeperBlue.net T-Shirt and goodies
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Well done one and all - well deserved all of them
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Well Done Mates!
Good idea PAPA for Alison!
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Congratulations all of you! Well deserved and a fun contest.
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Hey, congratulations to all winners
I know someone is smiling from above!
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

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Hey, congratulations to all winners
I know someone is smiling from above!
yeah i bet she is having a right giggle
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Well done all
So now we have a King and Queen, as you're both free divers, should that be your Highness's or your Lowness's?
Nice call with Ali's prize
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Thanks to all Alison deserves all the prizes I think as she brought us loads of joy, laughter, information, she did lots of work behind the scenes to keep members happy and keep up the community spirit. She started some brillliant threads and even during her tough recovery she out there making us all laugh.

Thanks for all your support everyone - it's been a good laugh and a terrible terrible addiction.

Sara

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Well - after all the nominations were collected, voting started. After the polls closed we totalled up the final vote tally and here are the final results:All winners are being notified shortly of their prizes. Alison is being awarded her prize posthumously and we are donating the value of her prize to the British Red Cross.

A big THANK YOU to all who nominated, and then voted!

An even BIGGER THANK YOU to our sponsors:
  • Eliossub
    providing a 5mm Smoothskin / Open cell Neoprene Heiwa Wetsuit
  • Spearo
    providing a Venom Carbon 90cm Speargun
  • Leaderfins
  • providing a Flyer Monofin and Classic Stereo Fins
  • Seven Tenths
  • providing 2 x £25 GBP Gift Certificates
  • Liquivision
    $150 USD Certificate against a F1 Dive Assistant
In addition we are providing the following prizes:
  • Weekend at the S.E.T.T. 30m Dive Tank with Accomodation (no flights though!)
  • Gift Certificates for the DeeperBlue.net Shop (in 50 Euro, 100 Euro and 250 Euro increments)
  • Copies of Umberto Pelizzari's "Manual of FreeDiving"
  • DeeperBlue.net T-Shirt and goodies
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

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Hey, congratulations to all winners
I know someone is smiling from above!
She'll be throwing a blue meanie!
Sreaming, I WANT MY F@#KING TEE SHIRT!
Well done everybody, so who won what then?
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Congrats all
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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

Congratulations to all the winners , and the members for having such winners.
I want to thank all who voted, I feel honoured. I think there are many who could've won as this forum consists of a lot of rare and wonderful people that I feel privileged to know.

Most of all I wanna thank Stephan!! who has changed so many people's lives with deeperblue. This place feels like a virtual home for many of us. Freediving is one of my greater passions, a thing I am certain I will practice for as long as I am able to. I have no idea how my freediving would've looked like without this place, I don't even know if I would've been freediving.
Stephan, you're my hero!!

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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

congrats to all, especially to DeepThought: i often discussed with him and found a real "community spirit", by which i mean a friendly spirit also when we have different ideas about things. I joined DB just to learn and to open my mind, now i stay in because i'm loving it..
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ditto to all the above! and congrates to all!
Smurf your one upright dude in my book. You guys are what makes this place.

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Re: The 2005 DeeperBlue.net Community Awards - THE WINNERS!

A great big congrats to each and every one of the champions!

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I'm starting to sniffle again, but congrats to all, now and forever.

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