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Cronin got the idea for PADI's Positive Identification Card at a trade show. PADI established the Master Scuba Diver certification, the industry's first certification awarded for accumulation of specified certification and experience, and not based on a specific training program, [Note 1] in 1973, later launching the modular scuba program. By ...
PADI Professional Association of Diving Instructors – Recreational diver training and certification agency [40] Pure Apnea - Specialising in both sports and recreational freediving. Currently the only freedive education system separating competitive from recreational freediving (www.pureapnea.com)
The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency.It has an estimated 5 million active recreational divers.
The equipment check is the DIR diving equivalent of a buddy check procedure. [9] Before the dive, all members of the diving team in turn examine and announce to other team members the presence, configuration, functionality, place and form attachment of each item of their standardized diving equipment .
As the name suggests, envelope budgeting involves using envelopes to keep your finances straight. Here’s how it works in seven steps: Step 1: Create a budget. List your monthly expenses. Include ...
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 whole PADI training system. The Rescue Diver course is the third level qualification in the American international system, [clarification needed] following the Advanced Open Water Diver qualification (AOWD). Historically the course was treated as a separate "speciality" rather than a mainstream certification in itself (and arguably it still ...
A related matter is NAUI's name changes from "Open Water II" to "Advanced Scuba Diver." NAUI's program was, at the time, a 38 hr. Open Water I course, followed by a six dive Open Water II course (aka "Sport Diver"), followed by the third course in the sequence, "Advanced Diver." At the time, PADI had a similar progression.