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NASE - National Academy of Scuba Educators – Recreational scuba training and certification agency EUF CB 2008003 [7] [5] NASDS - National Association of Scuba Diving Schools [22] NAUI - National Association of Underwater Instructors – Non-profit training and certification agency association of scuba instructors [2] [8]
Instructor and learner divers practicing scuba skills in confined water A diving instructor is a person who trains, and usually also assesses competence, of underwater divers. This includes freedivers , recreational divers including the subcategory technical divers , and professional divers which includes military , commercial , public safety ...
Catherine "Cathy" Church (née Hoffman, born 1945) is an American marine biologist, SCUBA diver, underwater photographer and educator. [1] Education
There, she took up serious free-diving and with Ferreras as her instructor was soon reaching record depths. In 1999 the two diving aficionados married and the following year, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Audrey Mestre broke the female world record by free diving to a depth of 125 meters (410 ft) on a single breath of air. A year later she ...
On 1 November 2020, PADI Open Water Diver Linnea Rose Mills [1] drowned during a training dive in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, while using an unfamiliar and defective equipment configuration, with excessive weights, no functional dry suit inflation mechanism, and a buoyancy compensator too small to support the weights, which were not configured to be ditched in an emergency.
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]
What Researchers Learn From Shark Tagging. As apex predators, sharks play an important role in the ocean’s ecosystems. Researchers tag shark and ray species to learn a variety of things about ...
Mestre was not recovered to the surface until nine minutes into her dive. She had a pulse at the surface, but there were no medical doctors available to treat her and minutes were wasted with Ferreras attempting to resuscitate her in the water. It was Ferreras who dove from the surface in scuba gear and recovered Mestre's passed-out body. [3]