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Organisations which publish standards for competence in scientific diving skills and knowledge, and issue certification for divers assessed as competent against these standards by affiliated schools or instructors: AAUS - American Academy of Underwater Sciences [49] CAUS - Canadian Association for Underwater Science [50]
ACUC, American and Canadian Underwater Certifications Inc. is an international recreational diving membership and diver training organization.Formerly known as the Association of Canadian Underwater Councils, it was formed as a not for profit collective of regional dive councils to create a national forum for their common interest and concerns.
It was responsible for publishing Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving Operations, which, among other things, defined qualifications for its diving certifications as well as safety procedures in underwater activities. [3] Its latest version, the 6.3 Revision of the Sixth Edition, was published in 2018.
Cronin got the idea for PADI's Positive Identification Card at a trade show. PADI established the Master Scuba Diver certification, the industry's first certification awarded for accumulation of specified certification and experience, and not based on a specific training program, [Note 1] in 1973, later launching the modular scuba program. By ...
A diver training standard is a document issued by a certification, registration, regulation or quality assurance agency, that describes the prerequisites for participation, the aim of the training programme, the specific competences that a candidate must demonstrate to be assessed as competent, and the minimum required experience that must be recorded before the candidate can be registered or ...
The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency. It has an estimated 5 million active recreational divers. [2] Founded in 1969, PDIC was established out of the need to properly train SCUBA instructors. [1]
SCUBA Diving International, launched in 1998 or 1999, [1] [2] is the sister organization of Technical Diving International. [7] SDI was created by dive professionals from the technical diving field.
The training programme enables divers to undertake accompanied no-decompression dives to a maximum depth of 20 meters in open water. [1] Other countries affiliated to CMAS may allow higher limits (for example, the Irish Underwater Council certifies a CMAS * diver to dive to 25m or 30m depending on the dive buddy, both at home and abroad). [2]