Diving organization

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Diving organizations are companies , clubs or associations for sport or professional divers .

A distinction is made between organizations built up in the club system (diving club and diving association; e.g. the VDST is a member of the CMAS ) and non-club-dependent, predominantly commercial training organizations (such as PADI , NAUI , SSI ). Some organizations operate worldwide, others only nationally or locally.

The best-known organizations are organized around the world either themselves or through umbrella organizations. Mostly they maintain a network of diving centers and diving schools all over the world and also arrange diving trips. While some diving organizations only offer franchising contracts for diving centers, others charge membership fees and thus offer a diving school more freedom. Compensation can also be paid per student divers, e.g. B. through the compulsory purchase of teaching materials.

Most organizations create regulations and rules for diving training for beginners and advanced training courses for diving guides and diving instructors. The training is proven by a diving license (certification).

In the past, the brevets of individual diving organizations were not recognized among each other, especially in countries where diving is subject to legal regulations (e.g. France or Spain). In the meantime, all major diving organizations recognize each other's training. The performance levels are  regulated internationally in the standards ISO 24801, ISO 24802 and ISO 11107, which describe the equivalence and minimum standards for training. This guarantees the compatibility of different training courses from different diving organizations to a certain extent, although the contents of the courses can sometimes differ considerably.

List of diving organizations

Internationally and in the German-speaking area important diving organizations are among others:

  • ANDI - American Nitrox Divers International
  • ANMP - Association nationale des moniteurs de plongée (France)
  • AIDA - Association Internationale pour le Développement de l'Apnée
  • BSAC - British Sub-Aqua Club
  • CMAS - Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
  • DIWA - Diving Instructor World Association
  • GUE - Global Underwater Explorers
  • TSVÖ - Austrian diving association
  • IAC - International Aquanautic Club (until June 30, 2012 was called Barakuda International Aquanautic Club )
  • IART - International Association of Rebreather Trainers
  • IDA - International Diving Association
  • IAHD - International Association for Handicapped Divers
  • IANTD - International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
  • NAUI - National Association of Underwater Instructors
  • NSS-CDS - National Speleological Society - Cave Diving Section
  • PADI - Professional Association of Diving Instructors
  • PDIC - Professional Diving Instructors Corporation
  • ProTec - Professional Technical Diving
  • SDI - Scuba Diving International
  • SSI - Scuba Schools International
  • SUSV (French: FSSS) - Swiss Underwater Sports Association
  • TDI - Technical Diving International
  • UTD - Unified Team Diving
  • VDST - Association of German Sports Divers, represents CMAS in Germany
  • VEST - Association of European Scuba Divers
  • YMCA SCUBA (until 2008, the diving program of the YMCA )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recreational diving services - Requirements for the training of recreational scuba divers - Part 1: Level 1 - Supervised diver (ISO 24801-1). ISO , accessed April 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Recreational diving services - Requirements for the training of scuba instructors - Part 1: Level 1 (ISO 24802-1). ISO , accessed April 29, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Recreational diving services - Requirements for introductory training programs to scuba diving (ISO 11121). ISO , accessed April 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Federations CMAS International, accessed May 29, 2012.

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