[Stephan Whelan]

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:

• Team Leader of the Year:Alison
• Mentor of the Year: island_sands
• Member of the Year: efattah
• Funniest Member of the Year: sinkweight
• Funniest Thread of the Year: Lets know each other.........
• Best Thread:Chronicles of a Blue Water Hunter
• Most Improved Award: naiad
• Community Spirit Award:DeepThought
• DeeperBlue.net King:Shadowkiller
• DeeperBlue.net Queen: samdive
• Personality of the year: bdurrett
  

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