Master Scuba Divers
Training is an ongoing part of scuba diving
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Training is an ongoing part of scuba diving. Below are some of the organizations I have trained with and would like you to investigate to see if they might interest you.
IPADI is the world’s leading scuba diver training organization.
With more than 6200 PADI Dive Centers and Resorts, and more than 136,000 individual PADI Professionals who have issued more than 23 million certifications around the world, you’ll find PADI diver courses and scuba diving services nearly everywhere.
The PADI System of diver education is based on progressive training that introduces skills, safety-related information and local environmental knowledge to student divers in stages. PADI courses are student-centered and provide maximum practice and realistic application.
PADI Professionals make underwater exploration and scuba diving adventures possible while maintaining the highest standards for diver training, safety and customer service. PADI’s “Four E's Philosophy” is that the dive lifestyle requires four elements:
Are you at a point in your dive training where you’re exploring different certifications? How would you like to learn to observe and explore like an underwater scientist? If so, it’s time to discover the PADI National Geographic Diver certification.
Adventurers and dive geeks alike will benefit from this certification which includes two dives and a custom exploration project. You’ll think, observe and document, in the way explorers and scientists do. Exploration projects vary – you might survey local marine life, or record water temperature fluctuations. No matter what the project, you’ll hone your buoyancy and observation skills as well as your ability to critically think about the environments surrounding you.
The National Geographic certification is offered as both a specialty or an add on to the Open Water Diver course. If you’re interested, the first step is to locate a PADI National Geographic Dive Center.
Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver. The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you’ve spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.
Scuba divers describe the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most challenging, yet most rewarding course they’ve ever taken. Why? Because you learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed. During the course, you learn to become a better buddy by practicing problem solving skills until they become second nature. Plus, the course is just fun – it’s serious, but still allows for lots of laughter in between the focused learning.
Project AWARE’s philosophy is to mobilize a global force of scuba divers and water enthusiasts who care about protecting the world’s water resources and choose to make a difference – one dive at a time. By earning the Project AWARE Specialist certification, you’ll be aware of the most pressing problems facing vulnerable aquatic environments and know what everyday actions you can take to help protect them.
Anyone who has an interest in the aquatic world should take this course. There are no prerequisites, age restrictions or water sessions required for this non-diving specialty.
The Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) wants to allow everyone to benefit from the unique and fascinating resource that is the world’s maritime heritage. It was fundamentally established 'to further research in nautical archaeology and publish the results'.
NAS is a UK based charity (Registered in England No. 1039270 English Registered Charity No: 262209 and Scotland No: SC040130) and a limited company (registered in England No: 1039270), but it also has strong links to other organisations around the world which work together collectively to promote the cause on a global scale.
NAS is dedicated to advancing education on nautical archaeology to everyone –its members, the general public and across the global archaeological sector. To this end it publishes a quarterly member’s newsletter Nautical Archaeology.
The charity also aims to preserve an accurate record of the past – to achieve this it aims to improve archaeological techniques and encourage publication and research. It publishes a peer reviewed academic journal twice a year called the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.