Welcome to 2004!

[Stephan Whelan]

Happy New Year everyone!

I thought i'd welcome you all to the New Year by giving you some interesting stats from the year that was.

In 2003 we published...

- 190 Feature Articles
- 363 News Items
- Published 3 Special Feature Series (Sony Freediver Open Classic in Cyprus,
Mandy-Rae Cruickshank's World-Record Attempt, and DEMA 2003)

This in turn generated a strong traffic through the site. In 2003 we achieved...

- 3.6 Million PageViews (70% increase from 2002)
- 0.5 Million Visitors (33% increase from 2002)
- 1032 new Forum Members
- 30,000 forum posts

I'm extremely proud to see the growth of the site, as well as the editorial and writing teams grow to teams of 6 Editors and over 100 contributors.

2004 is going to be a top year - I look forward to seeing you all around the site or in person!

 

[Alun]

i'd like to say thanks to everyone who's contributed to Deeperblue in 2003, and especially to Stephen of course. i can't imagine how much time he spends running this website! the effort everyone has put into the website is very much appreciated.

best of luck in 2004!

 

[Bindlestitch]

Originally posted by Alun
i'd like to say thanks to everyone who's contributed to Deeperblue in 2003, and especially to Stephen of course. i can't imagine how much time he spends running this website! the effort everyone has put into the website is very much appreciated.

best of luck in 2004!

I'll give that a big DITTO!
Big thanks to Stephen and the gang.

 

[^Milan^]

Well as a new member i'd also like to say Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone and hopefully i'll get a chance to meet some of you and improve my diving skills