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Organisations which publish standards for competence in recreational scuba diving skills and knowledge, and issue certification for divers assessed as competent against these standards by affiliated schools or instructors: ACDC - Associazione CMAS Diving Centre Italia CMAS code ITA/F07 [1]
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.
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 ...
DR2009 regulates all commercial diving operations and training, including military and other professional diving, inshore, inland and offshore, but explicitly exclude recreational diver training and dive shop operations, which are generally covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993. Superseded by Diving Regulations 2017
Public safety diver – Diver working in the public safety sector; Public safety diver training – Training divers for public safety services; Public safety diving – Underwater work done by law enforcement, rescue and search and recovery teams; Pulmonary barotrauma – Lung over-pressure and squeeze injuries
The Diving Certification model originated at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in 1952 after two divers died whilst using university-owned equipment. [3] The then President of the University of California, Robert Gordon Sproul, restricted diving to those who had been trained through the program at SIO and thus "certification" was born.
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.
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