Agency Listing
This page is a resource of diving training and safety agencies and will be
expanded to contain details of agencies world-wide.
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- ACUC American Canadian Underwater Certification
- AISE Association of Independent Scuba Educators
- ANDI American Nitrox Divers International
- APPI Assoc. Plongée Professionel International
- ASDA Advanced Scuba Diving Association
- BSAC British Sub-Aqua Club
- CADC Canadian Association of Diving Contractors
- CBPDS Confederação Brasileira de Pesca e Desportos Subaquáticos
- CDAA Cave Divers Association of Australia
- CDG-GB Cave Diving Group of Great Britain
- CEDIP European Committee of Professional Diving Instructors
- CIPP Compagnie des Instructeurs Professionnels de Plongee
- CMAS Confederation Mondiale des Activites Subaquatiques (World Underwater Federation)
- COO College of Oceaneering
- CSUDP California State University Diving Program
- CWDI Canadian Working Divers Institute
- DAN Diver's Alert Network
- DEMA Diving Equipment and Marketting Association
- DRI Dive Rescue International
- DSF Dansk Sportsdykker Forbund (Danish Sport Diving Federation)
- ESDA Emergency Services Diving Association
- FFESSM Fédération Française d'Etudes et de Sports Sous Marins (French Federation for Underwater Study and Sports)
- FQAS Fédération Québecoise des Activites Subaquatiques
- FSSS Fédération Suisse de Sports Subaquatiques
- GLC-UHMS Great Lakes Chapter-Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society
- GUE Global Underwater Explorers
- HDS USA Historical Diving Society USA
- HSA Handicapped Scuba Association
- IADRS International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists
- IAHD International Association for Handicapped Divers
- IANTD International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers
- IDA International Diving Association
- IDEA International Diving Educators Association
- IDOT Israeli Dive Operators and Tourism
- IPDS International Police Diver Symposium
- ISEA International Scuba Educators Association, Inc.
- JULIA Japan Underwater Leaders and Instructors Association
- LACUIA Los Angeles County Underwater Instructors' Association
- MAPSDA Massachusetts Public Safety Divers Association
- MDEA Multinational Diving Educators Association
- NACD National Association of Cave Divers
- NAPD National Academy of Police Diving, Inc
- NASDS National Association of SCUBA Diving Schools, and in Japan
- NASE National Association of Scuba Educators
- NAUI National Association of Underwater Instructors
- NBDHMT National Board of Diving & Hyperbaric Medical Technology
- NDF Norwegian Diving Federation
- NDL Nordlys Diving, Occupational Scuba Diving Training in British Columbia
- NELOS Nederlandstalige liga voor onderwateronderzoek en -sport (Belgium)
- NIADD National Instructors' Assn for Divers with Disabilities
- NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
- NOB Nederlandse Onderwatersport Bond
- NPAD National Academy of Police Diving
- NSS-CDS National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section
- PADI Professional Association of Dive Instructors (formerly: Professional Association of Nitrox divers)
- PDIC Professional Diving Instructors Corporation
- POSSI Indonesian Subacquatic Sport Association
- PSA Professional Scuba Association
- PSI Professional Scuba Inspectors, Inc
- RSTC Recreational Scuba Training Council
- SAA British Sub Aqua Association
- SAUU South African Underwater Union
- SDI SCUBA Diving International
- SRDI Special Response Diver International
- SSAC Scottish Subaqua Club
- SSDF Swedish Underwater Federation
- SSI Scuba Schools International
- SUSL Finnish Sportdivers Association
- TDI Technical Diving International
- TIDF The Israeli Diving Federation
- TSVÖ Tauchsportverband Oesterreichs (Austrian Diving Federation)
- VDST Verband deutscher Sporttaucher e.V. (German Sport Diving Club)
- VDTL Verband deutscher Tauchlehrer e.V. (German Dive Instructor Agency)
- WASI World Association of Scuba Instructors
- YMCA Young Men's Christian Assocation National SCUBA Program