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The requirements for PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) are 6 months as a certified diver, registration as a PADI Divemaster, with 60 logged dives, a medical statement that the applicant does not suffer from a disqualifying medical condition and recent participation in PADI Emergency First Response training. The IDC takes five to seven ...
PADI offers a specialty program called Public Safety Diver for divers who are either employed in or serve as volunteers in the public safety diving sector principally within the United States. [31] This certification is not recognised in some countries which have national standards for occupational diving qualifications and require registration ...
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 ...
Scuba diving education levels as used by ISO, PADI, CMAS, SSI and NAUI. Before initial diver training and thereafter at regular intervals, a diver should undergo a fitness to dive examination by a diving doctor. In some countries, such an examination is required by law and is a prerequisite for any training in many diving schools.
Nesconset fire department scuba rescue team on training exercise. Public safety diving is underwater diving conducted as part of law enforcement and fire/rescue.Public safety divers differ from recreational, scientific and commercial divers who can generally plan the date, time, and location of a dive, and dive only if the conditions are conducive to the task.
NAUI Nitrox diver certification card. A Diving certification or C-card is a document (usually a wallet sized plastic card) recognizing that an individual or organization authorized to do so, "certifies" that the bearer has completed a course of training as required by the agency issuing the card.
Organisations specifically certifying public safety divers: DRI - Dive Rescue International [4] ERDI - Emergency Response Diving International – American organisation for training and certification of emergency response divers [47]
A recreational diver may have a duty of care to another diver if one of these conditions occurs: [1]. The diver is the instructor of the other diver. [1] This is usually established by a contract or other agreement to teach the other diver how to dive, or some part of the skills and knowledge required for certification as a competent diver.