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A. Schräder's Son – US Manufacturer of diving equipment of Brooklyn, New York – Standard diving equipment, shallow water helmets. [117] Scorpena – Dive computers. [9] Scott Aviation Corporation – Hydro-pak full-face scuba sets. [3] ScubaForce [118] – SF2 (rebreather) – Back or sidemount ECCR with bellows counterlung. [118]
NASDS (USA) - National Association of Scuba Diving Schools only USA (Founded in the 1960s and merged with SSI in 1999) [30] TAC - The Aquatic Club - existed in the UK between 1982 and 1986. dissolved organization [31]
In 2018, PADI launched PADI Travel, an online dive travel resource and booking platform for dive resort and live-aboard packages. [ 17 ] 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.
The first diving competition was held in 1885, in Germany. [2] In the first Olympic diving competition in 1904, American George Sheldon won gold in platform diving. Women's diving in the Olympics started with Women's diving at the 1912 Summer Olympics, won by Greta Johansson. University of Washington, 1915
By 2025, some 250 million tons (226.7 million metric tons) of plastic will have found its way into the oceans, according to the PADI AWARE Foundation, a conservation group sponsoring a global ...
The "Aqua-Lung" regulator was created by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan in 1943. [5]In 1946, the company known as La Spirotechnique (now Aqua Lung International) was established by both men together with Jean Delorme, CEO of Air Liquide, as a division of Air Liquide to sell the Aqua-Lung regulators.
For a week’s voyage with the dive operator, Dive Pro Liveaboard, you would pay €1,220 (just over £1,000) and enjoy three or four dives per day. What do we know about the boat?
Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a group of not-for-profit organizations dedicated to improving diving safety for all divers. It was founded in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in 1980 at Duke University providing 24/7 telephonic hot-line diving medical assistance.