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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.
IDA International Diving Association [16] IDEA - International Diving Educators Association [17] [4] IPA - International Police Association – Non-Governmental Organisation of police and ex-police (Monaco) CMAS code INT/F11 [1] IDSA International Diving Schools Association – Organisation to develop common standards for commercial diver ...
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson. [2] PADI courses range from entry level to advanced recreational diver certification.
NAUI is allied with Divers Alert Network, a non-profit organization for diver's assistance and medical research on recreational scuba diving safety, developed by Executive Director Dan Orr in 1980. [8] DAN and NAUI allied in 2007 to work together for diver safety. DAN is the official dive accident insurance provider for NAUI.
Public safety diving is the underwater work conducted by law enforcement, fire rescue, and search & rescue/recovery dive teams. 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.
Emergency Response Diving International claims to be the largest organization devoted to training emergency response divers [2] in public safety diving (PSD). It was founded in Orlando, Florida in 2000 by Scuba Diving International in response to a high accident rate in the training of emergency response divers.
The USOA is a member of the following organisations - CMAS with affiliation to the sport, technical and scientific committees, the CMAS American Zone, the Divers Alert Network (DAN), the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). [1] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Public safety diving – Underwater work done by law enforcement, rescue and search and recovery teams; Rescue diver – Recreational scuba certification emphasising emergency response and diver rescue; Scuba diving fatalities – Deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving