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In 2018, PADI launched PADI Travel, an online dive travel resource and booking platform for dive resort and live-aboard packages. [16] In 2021, PADI reported it had a membership of over 128,000 professional members and 6,600 dive centers, and had awarded more than 28 million diving certifications internationally.
PADI - Professional Association of Diving Instructors – Recreational diver training and certification agency EUF CB 2004001 [6] [7] [17] PCIA - Philippine Federation of CMAS Underwater Activities (CMAS Philippines) CMAS code PHI/F01 [1] PDA - Professional Diving Association EUF CB 2006004 [6]
The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency.It has an estimated 5 million active recreational divers.
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.
The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI Worldwide) is a nonprofit association of scuba instructors founded in 1960 by Albert Tillman and Neal Hess. [2] [3]NAUI primarily serves as a recreational dive certification and membership organization, providing international diver standards and education programs.
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 ...
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The equivalent course offered by National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) is the Advanced Scuba Diver. As a second level qualification, the AOWD certification level is aimed somewhere between the CMAS* Diver and CMAS** Diver qualifications, or between the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) Ocean Diver and Sports Diver qualifications, although some differences occur.