The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John...

established a column called "The National Diving Patrol" as a section to name new skin and scuba diving "instructors". Still, no official training and certifying...

A diving instructor is a person who trains, and usually also assesses competence, of underwater divers. This includes freedivers, recreational divers...

competence in diving skills Diver training – Processes to develop the skills and knowledge to dive safely underwater Recreational diving – Diving for the purpose...

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and...

Solo diving is the practice of self-sufficient underwater diving without a "dive buddy", particularly with reference to scuba diving, but the term is...

Technical Diving International (TDI) claims to be the largest technical diving certification agency in the world, and one of the first agencies to offer...

beginners through to advanced and diving professionals. These standards and procedures are used by diving instructors to conduct diver training courses...

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agencies. These include certification in cave diving, commercial diving, recreational diving, technical diving and freediving. Diver certification agencies...

January 1959 makes it one of the world's oldest underwater diving organisations. An international congress of diving federations representing all underwater...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

issuing certifications for commercial diving skills. The ADCI was first established in 1968 by a number of small diving companies, contractors and professionals...

technical diving, cave diving, wreck diving, rebreather diving and diver leadership. Originally formed as the International Association of Nitrox Divers...

recreational dives, particularly in a professional capacity, and is a qualification used in many parts of the world in recreational scuba diving for a diver...

International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers NAUI - National Association of Underwater Instructors PADI - Professional Association of Diving Instructors...

Cave-diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation...

The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency. It has an estimated 5 million active...

Professional diving is underwater diving where the divers are paid for their work. Occupational diving has a similar meaning and applications. The procedures...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...

safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside or under other natural or artificial underwater...

The Association nationale des moniteurs de plongée (English: National Association of Diving Instructors) ( ANMP ) is a French professional body recognized...

the needs of inland diving instructors. A further split occurred in 1967 with the creation of the National Association of Scuba Diving Schools (NASDS) by...

Freediving, free-diving, free diving, breath-hold diving, or skin diving, is a mode of underwater diving that relies on breath-holding until resurfacing...

Surface-supplied diving equipment (SSDE) is the equipment required for surface-supplied diving. The essential aspect of surface-supplied diving is that breathing...

Commercial diving may be considered an application of professional diving where the diver engages in underwater work for industrial, construction, engineering...

Diving instructors affiliated to a diving certification agency may work independently or through a university, a dive club, a dive school or a dive shop...

The underwater diving environment, or just diving environment is the natural or artificial surroundings in which a dive is done. It is usually underwater...

instructor. Keenan discovered freediving while he was holidaying in Dahab, Egypt in 2009. He later relocated to Dahab, became a freediving instructor...

underwater diving. The definitions listed are in the context of underwater diving. There may be other meanings in other contexts. Underwater diving can be...