In a historic event this morning, ANDI, IANTD, and TDI released training numbers showing the number of certified Rebreather divers worldwide. The three agencies are undoubtedly the 3 largest Rebreather training agencies worldwide. This historic joining of forces to share this data is truly a first for the diving industry. They combined are assuming they collectively make up more than 90% of the current Rebreather certifications, while practical logic, and from my unbiased reality check, Id say theyre being conservative, and realistically they probably make up more than 95% of the worldwide Rebreather certifications.
IANTD first started training and certifying Rebreather divers in 1990, and this begins the overall timeframe for Rebreather diving in the public domain.
This data is covering all of the major production Rebreather units available. This doesn't include home-made Rebreathers.
Between 1990 and 1995 was statistically insignificant, whereas there were less than 1000 certifications.
Slightly more than 30,000 divers certified on 27 different types of Rebreathers at varying levels from 1995 to the present. This number is for basic certification, and carries only a 1% duplication rate of divers between the three agencies, as they compared data. On average, this boils down to 1852 divers per year certified in the developmental years of 1996 through the present. This scale is obviously increasing as we reach today, since Rebreather diving now is at an all time high, and marketing of Rebreathers has greatly increased since the 2000's. This overall number is defined as basic CCR/SCR diving. This is further defined as no stop (no decompression) diving, at depths not exceeding 30 meters.
CCR numbers have grown steadily but have experienced rapid growth over the past 3 years (2009 through 2010).
Projections indicate that in the following years, they expect trending to proceed on a higher scale, whereas as many as 3000 divers per year will become Rebreather certified.
IANTD first started training and certifying Rebreather divers in 1990, and this begins the overall timeframe for Rebreather diving in the public domain.
This data is covering all of the major production Rebreather units available. This doesn't include home-made Rebreathers.
Between 1990 and 1995 was statistically insignificant, whereas there were less than 1000 certifications.
Slightly more than 30,000 divers certified on 27 different types of Rebreathers at varying levels from 1995 to the present. This number is for basic certification, and carries only a 1% duplication rate of divers between the three agencies, as they compared data. On average, this boils down to 1852 divers per year certified in the developmental years of 1996 through the present. This scale is obviously increasing as we reach today, since Rebreather diving now is at an all time high, and marketing of Rebreathers has greatly increased since the 2000's. This overall number is defined as basic CCR/SCR diving. This is further defined as no stop (no decompression) diving, at depths not exceeding 30 meters.
CCR numbers have grown steadily but have experienced rapid growth over the past 3 years (2009 through 2010).
Projections indicate that in the following years, they expect trending to proceed on a higher scale, whereas as many as 3000 divers per year will become Rebreather certified.