International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) 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 based on the consensus of members which provide a basic standard of comparison for commercial diver training standards, with the stated intention of:-
Improving safetyProviding contractors with a direct input to the diver training syllabusEnabling contractors to bid across national borders on a more even playing fieldImproving diver qualityProviding divers with greater job opportunitiesIDSA provides a Table of Equivalence of various national commercial diver training standards.
IDSA standards are recognized in the Danish, Norwegian and Italian (Sicily) legislation.
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