SNSI or Scuba and Nitrox International was founded in 1995. It was the first agency to bring the use of Nitrox in Italy. SNSI included in its founding members pioneer Italian diver Umberto Pepoli.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Wreck
Website: http://scubasnsi.goscubasnsi.com/
Email: NA
Headquarter: Italy
Address: Viale IV Novembre 22, Borgo San Lorenzo (FI), Italy
Phone: 1 772 777 4382
TDI or Technical Diving International was founded in 1994 by underwater explorer Bret Gilliam. It was meant to be a complete educational system for non-sport diving with topics such as decompression, additional cylinders, alternative breathing gases, rebreathers, or overhead environments such as wrecks, caves or mines.
Training offered: Technical, Cave, Wreck, Rebreather
Website: http://www.tdisdi.com
Email: worldHQ@tdisdi.com
Headquarter: United States of America
Address: 1321 SE Decker Ave, Stuart, Florida, 34994
Phone: 1-888 778 9073
RAID or Rebreather Association of International Divers was founded by Barry Coleman. In the early 90s he started rebreather diving and conceptualised the design of a recreational rebreather. Working closely with the design team at Poseidon, the Mk VI Discovery Rebreather was born and brought to market in 2007. RAID was then launched by Coleman to support the diver training required for Mk VI.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Cave, Rebreather
Website: https://www.diveraid.com/
Email: admin@diveraid.com
Headquarter: Australia
Address: 18 Arunga Drive, Beresfield. NSW. 2322, Australia
Phone: +61 (0) 2 4088 0560
NADD or NADD Global Diving Agency was founded in 1984. Its activities are directed mainly to the development of educational systems, swimming courses, swimming and diving for people with disabilities. NADD acquired large expertise gained from experience with how difficult and complex is underwater training for disabled people. This was a solid foundation for the development of a larger project; hence the birth of a single agency teaching of its kind.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Freediving
Website: http://www.naddeurope.com/
Email: mailing@naddeurope.com, adm-itaf03@cmas.org
Headquarters: Italy
Address: Via Fratelli Rosselli, 3, Milan, 20139
Phone: + 39/02/53 72 99
PSS Worldwide or Professional Scuba Schools began to operate in the diving sector in the 1990s. PSS was founded by experts who had already been involved in diver training for over twenty-five years and who came from various professional fields.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Wreck, Freediving
Website: https://www.pssworldwide.org/en/default.aspx
Email: info@pssww.org
Headquarter: Italy
Address: Via Diocleziano 350, Napoli, Italy 80125
Phone: +39-081-7623000
The National Academy of Scuba Educators or NASE Worldwide was founded in 1982 in Lubbock, Texas. It was the concept of a group of scuba diving enthusiasts and business experts who identified a different approach to scuba diver certification agencies and their business practices.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical
Website: https://www.naseworldwide.org/
Email: info@naseworldwide.org
Headquarter: United States of America
Address: Jacksonville, FL 32206, PO Box 3166
Phone: +1.888.903.NASE (6273)
It is in 1988 that ANDI or the American Nitrox Divers, Inc. was formed to respond to a demand for training using other breathing gases than air. It also covered the filling of tanks with enriched air.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Cave, Rebreather, Wreck, Hyperbaric
Website: http://www.andihq.com/
Email: andi@andihq.com
Headquarter: United States of America
Address: 74 Woodcleft Avenue, Freeport, New York, 11520-3342
Phone: +1 (516) 546-2026
Al Tillman, (soon to become NAUI Instructor #1) was the director of sports for Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation during this period and established a training program sponsored by L.A. County to certify skin and scuba divers. In 1959 the National Diving Patrol was renamed the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI).
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Cave, Wreck, Ice, Rebreather, Gas Blending
Website: https://www.naui.org/
Email: NA
Headquarter: United States of America
Address: 9030 Camden Field Parkway, Riverview, FL. 33578
Phone: +1 813-628-6284
In 2007, Andrew Georgitsis (co-founder and former Training Director of GUE 1997-2005) co-founded Unified Team Diving to pick up where DIR left off. What makes UTD different is their progressive approach of developing DIR into UTD diving.
UTD’s beginning curriculum is designed with the end goal in mind – where the end goal could be the most advanced level of deep cave. This end goal curriculum is implemented through their guiding ethos of always being Consistent, Scalable, and Interchangeable in all their skills, protocols, and equipment.
In UTD, there is no such thing as doing things one way for one type of diving, or a special piece of equipment for one type of diving, and another for another type of diving! The skills, techniques, and equipment used and taught at the lowest level are exactly the same as those used at the highest end goal level.
What makes UTD unique is the culture of it’s instructor family! Even though UTD instructors are scattered all over the world, they are united in their commitment to precision artful diving with a common sense attitude. UTD instructors see themselves primarily as coaches that help divers achieve their goals, and as certification evaluators secondarily. UTD’s instructor culture is what allows prospective UTD students to be able to depend on consistent training – regardless of which UTD instructor they choose.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Cave, Wreck
Website: http://www.utdscubadiving.com/en/splash/
Email: info@utdscubadiving.com
Headquarter: United States of America
Address: 8545 Arjons Drive Suite N, San Diego, CA, 92126
Phone: +1 (855) DIVE UTD (348-3883)
ISE which stands for Inner Space Explorers was founded in 2008 by Achim R. Schlöffel. An underwater explorer and the only german speaking Tec 2 instructor for GUE at the time. As a lot of people want to explore more of the underwater world the education provided by ISE is in depth. Its aimed to give the tools necessary to plan and realized exploration dives.
Training offered: Recreational, Technical, Cave, Wreck, Gas Blending
Website: http://is-expl.com/
Email: iconhq@is-expl.com
Headquarter: Germany
Address: Freidankstrasse 3a, 81739 München
Phone: +49 89 693 04 503