Jessica Patterson Honored as DEMA’s 2023 Wave Makers Award Recipient

 

** Announcement Made at the 2023 DEMA Member Update and Annual Meeting ** The Diving Equipment and Marketing Association is pleased to announce that Jessica Patterson is the 2023 recipient of DEMA’s Wave Makers Award. The announcement was made at the DEMA Award’s Part DEMA Member Update and Annual Meeting on November 15, 2023. The Wave Makers Award was first introduced in 2017 and aims to recognize professionals who have been working in the industry for five years or less and have made a significant contribution to the industry during that time. The Wave Makers Award encourages the Industry to support a culture that fosters innovative thinking and encourages engagement with the association and industry by new professionals. The finalists for the 2023 Wave Makers Award included: Jon Brunson, JBO Production, Inc. Jessica Patterson, Ohana Dive Company Cynthia Rosselle, One Ocean Scuba 2023 DEMA Members selected Jessica Patterson as the 2023 Award recipient by viewing and voting for the finalist of their choice, based on the biographies and short videos that the finalists submitted.  JESSICA PATTERSON has been working with the Brevard Zoo for 5 years now as the Coordinator of the sea turtle Healing center. She has been a part of the Ohana team for a year now and she has been working with PADI to make Ohana an Eco diving center. Her passion for the ocean and turtle care is unmatched. Ohana has taken trips to South Florida and done educational tours of what she does at the zoo. She was invited to Atlantis in Nassau to help with the sick turtles at their aquarium. She does research for the turtles as well as bringing them back to health to be released. DEMA congratulates Jessica Patterson for her hard work and passionate service to our Industry and looks forward to seeing the contributions she will continue to make throughout her career.