Dive (training) organizations

 

PADI              Professional Association of Diving Instructors

www.padi.com

 

 

IDD is one of the fastest growing scuba organizations in the world. IDD has developed their own, worldwide recognized, modular teaching system, which means that you learn the course step by step (in modules) in your own time and speed. All lessons are planned carefully to ensure the student follows the contents of each course in a methodical and logical fashion. All, in multiple languages available, educational materials are off the highest quality. Our textbooks are always printed in full color and are being continuously adapted to keep up with the most recent developments in the diving industry. The educational system of IDD not only exists of normal scuba educations. IDD also has its own technical department. This department is specialized in the technical part of diving (Enriched Air Nitrox diving, Rebreather diving, Cave diving, etc.). We do also have our own Handicapped Diving educations.

www.divessi.com

 

As part of an industry serving 2.5 million active divers and 67 million snorkelers, Scuba Schools International is one of the most trusted names in scuba diving. SSI has set the standard for scuba diving certification since 1970, with more than 27 regional offices, represented in more than 110 countries and more than 2.400 international locations, as well as materials printed in 25 languages. Diving means being transported to undersea caverns, swimming with schools of seemingly make-believe fish, exploring places that only handfuls of human beings have laid eyes on…diving can take you all around the world to the earth’s most stunning locations, and expand your understanding of nature’s possibilities. Scuba is only an enjoyable, relaxing pastime if the diver feels safe and well-trained. That’s why SSI has worked for the last 40 years to perfect our signature training technique “comfort through repetition”, develop the most stringent instructor certification standards, and to cultivate a network of authorized dive centers and resorts which guarantee SSI’s high quality of service and safety.   

 

www.naui.org

 

NAUI Worldwide is the world's most respected, largest non-profit diver training organization in the world. Established in 1959 as a membership association and organized solely to support and promote Dive Safety Through Education, NAUI continues as the recognized leader in innovative education. NAUI Worldwide members offer a full range of training programs from Skin Diver through Instructor Course Director, with dozens of specialty courses including Nitrox and technical diving. Thousands of member instructors, dive businesses, resorts, and service centers are located in countries throughout the world.

www.cmas.org

 

On the 28th of September 1958, delegates from the following Federations: Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, Brazil, France, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Switzerland, the United States of America and Yugoslavia met in Brussels on the occasion of the congress of the independent International Confederation gathering all underwater disciplines.

With this aim, a meeting was held in Monaco on January 9, 10 and 11, 1959 and a decision to establish the "World Confederation of Underwater Activities" in brief "C.M.A.S.", was taken.

This Confederation succeeded, specifically in regard to all functions and responsibilities, the "Comité des Sports Sous-Marins" (Underwater Sports Committee) of the International Confederation of Sport Fishing founded on the 22nd of February 1952.