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RAID - Recreational, Professional, Technical, and Rebreather training www.diveraid.com SAA - The Sub-Aqua Association – British recreational diver training and certification organisation CMAS code GBR/F03 [1] [7] TDI - Technical Diving International – Technical diver training and certification agency EUF CB 2006002 [6] CMAS code INT/F05 [1] [7]
Training for freediving can take many forms, some of which can be performed on land. The University of Miami presents a scientific freediving class that was developed by Claire Paris, a marine scientist and freediver, [60] the class is the first of its kind at the university. [61] [62] One training exercise is the apnea walk.
SSI was founded by Robert Clark in 1970. [2] SSI headquarters was in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it is owned by Concept Systems International, Inc.In 2008, it was acquired by Doug McNeese, owner of the National Association of Scuba Diving Schools (USA) until its merger with SSI in 1999, and Robert Stoss, manager of Scubapro and Seemann Sub.
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS; known in English as the World Underwater Federation) is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international system of recreational snorkel and scuba diver training and recognition.
Freediving is a mode of underwater diving in which the dive is done on breathhold. It includes freediving for hunting and gathering, for observing the underwater environment, to carry out such tasks as are possible, and as an underwater sport , considered an extreme sport , in which divers attempt to reach great depths without breathing apparatus.
It was the world's first civilian training program to certify recreational divers and soon began granting Provisional Certification to instructors across the country. [ 6 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the May 1960 issue of Skin Diver Magazine , the creation of The National Diving Patrol was announced as an official, national organization.
Freediving is a form of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing rather than the use of breathing apparatus such as scuba gear. Besides the limits of breath-hold, immersion in water and exposure to high ambient pressure also have physiological effects that limit the depths and duration possible in freediving.
Scuba diver in Panama. Recreational diving may be considered to be any underwater diving that is not occupational, professional, or commercial, in that the dive is fundamentally at the discretion of the diver, who dives either to their own plan, or to a plan developed in consensus with the other divers in the group, though dives led by a professional dive leader or instructor for non ...