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Professional Association of Diving Instructors
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is the world's largest recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson. Cronin was originally a NAUI instructor who decided to...
Abbreviation:
- PADI
Scuba Schools International
Scuba Schools International or SSI is an organization that teaches the skills involved in scuba diving and supports Dive Businesses and Dive Resorts.
SSI has well over 2,200 authorized dealers and 35 Regional Centers and Area Offices all over the...
Abbreviation:
- SSI
National Association of Underwater Instructors
The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) is a United States based scuba diver training organization concerned with promoting dive safety through education.
NAUI is official CE and ISO certified in May 2007, on all 3 diver levels and...
Abbreviation:
- NAUI
Professional Diving Instructors Corporation
The Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and certification agency. It has an estimated 5 million active recreational divers.
Founded in the 1960s, PDIC was established out of the need to properly...
Abbreviation:
- PDIC
International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) is a SCUBA diving organization concerned with certification and training in Enriched Air Nitrox diving, Technical diving and Free diving.
Dick Rutkowski, the former dive supervisor for...
Abbreviation:
- IANTD
Technical Diving International
Technical Diving International (TDI) is the largest technical diving certification agency in the world. TDI specializes in more advanced Scuba diving techniques, such as diving with rebreathers and mixed breathing gases, such as Heliox.
TDI was...
Abbreviation:
- TDI
Young Men's Christian Association Scuba Program
The YMCA formerly offered a scuba certification program, but it was closed in 2008.
Abbreviation:
- YMCA
American Academy of Underwater Sciences
The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is a group of scientists who research underwater or into underwater matters. It was organized in 1977 and incorporated in the State of California in 1983.
The mission of the American Academy of...
Abbreviation:
- AAUS
American Canadian Underwater Certifications
The 'Association of Canadian Underwater Councils' was formed in 1969 by several large recreational scuba diving clubs represented regionally by provincial underwater councils. By a tie-breaker vote, it was decided that the Association would also...
Abbreviation:
- ACUC
American Nitrox Divers International
American Nitrox Divers International (or ANDI) was founded by Ed Betts and Dick Rutkowski in 1988 as a Scuba diving training agency. As a former dive supervisor of NOAA, and the original founder of IANTD, Dick Rutkowski is responsible for many of...
Abbreviation:
- ANDI
British Sub Aqua Club
The British Sub-Aqua Club or BSAC has been recognised since 1954 by the Sports Council as the governing body of recreational diving in the United Kingdom.
The club was founded in 1953 and has over 50,000 members. It is a diver training organization...
Abbreviation:
- BSAC
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques
The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) is the World Underwater Federation. CMAS is the international umbrella organisation for diver training organizations. It was founded in Brussels on September 28, 1958. One of the founding...
Global Underwater Explorers
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) is a scuba diving organization that provides education within recreational, technical and cave diving. It is a not-for-profit, membership organization, based in High Springs, Florida, United States.
GUE was formed...
Abbreviation:
- GUE
International Association for Handicapped Divers
The International Association for Handicapped Divers (or "IAHD") is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in Middenmeer, the Netherlands. The organization was established in 1993, with the aim to promote, develop and conduct programs for...
International Diving Educators Association
The International Diving Educators Association or (IDEA) was originally founded in 1952 as the Florida Skin Divers Association (FSDA)Scuba Training Committee, and later changed its name to the Florida Scuba Divers Association. As the group's...
Sub-Aqua Association
The Sub-Aqua Association or SAA is a diver training organization for scubadivers in the United Kingdom. The association and some other UK-based diving groups have traditionally used a club-based system with unpaid instructors, while the other...
Scottish Sub Aqua Club
The Scottish Sub Aqua Club (SSAC) was founded in Glasgow in 1953. Today it is a company limited by guarantee with nearly 70 branches and 1900 members. SSAC instructors provide scuba diving training to branch members on an amateur basis.
SSAC has...
Unified Team Diving
Unified Team Diving (UTD) is a SCUBA diving training agency founded in 2008 by Andrew Georgitsis and Jeff Seckendorf to incorporate DIR/Hogarthian principles into SCUBA education at all levels.
Abbreviation:
- UTD
