International Diving Schools Association

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International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) [1] was formed in 1982 with the primary purpose of developing common international standards for commercial diver training.

The Association is concerned with offshore, inshore and inland commercial diving and some specialist non-diving qualifications such as diving supervisors, diving medical technicians and life support technicians. It has published international diver training standards [2] based on the consensus of members which provide a basic standard of comparison for commercial diver training standards, with the stated intention of:-

The AIM of the IDSA: To improve quality and safety in the international diving industry by standardizing training and sharing knowledge and best practices.

IDSA is providing a qualification card called the IDSA Qcard. The IDSA Qcard is for divers that has been trained in IDSA Full Member Schools, the school can ask the IDSA office to make the Qcard (in creditcard format). Contrators can check on the website the validity of the IDSA Qcard.www.idsaworldwide.org

All IDSA Full members has to pass the IDSA Audit.


IDSA provides a Table of Equivalence of various national commercial diver training standards. [3]

IDSA standards are recognized in the Danish, [4] Norwegian [5] [6] and Italian (Sicily) [7] legislation.

References

  1. ↑ International Diving Schools Association official website http://www.idsaworldwide.org/ accessed 13 September 2013
  2. ↑ Staff, IDSA,(2009), International Diver Training Certification: Diver Training Standards, Revision 4, October 2009 http://www.idsaworldwide.org/docs/diverts0909.pdf Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 13 September 2013
  3. ↑ Staff, IDSA, (2012)The IDSA Table of Equivalence: A List of Schools teaching the IDSA Standards together with their National equivalent 6 January 2012, http://www.idsaworldwide.org/docs/toe2012.pdf Archived 2014-08-25 at the Wayback Machine accessed 13 September 2013
  4. ↑ "Diving training programmes". Danish Maritime Authority. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  5. ↑ "Nytt senter for dykkekompetanse Rapport fra arbeidsgruppe som har utredet ny driftsform for Statens dykkerskole" (PDF). ptil.no (pdf) (in Norwegian). Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. 13 March 2003. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Regulated profession - Dykker, klasse B (Norway)". ec.europa.eu. European Commission. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  7. ↑ "Repertorio telematico subacquea industriale". regione.sicilia.it (in Italian). Sicilian Region. 9 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
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