PADI was a member of the CMAS or it was never a member?
PADI was a member of the CMAS?
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What exactly are you asking? Agencies are not members of CMAS. CMAS authorizes certain bodies or organizations to issue CMAS certs. Some do so as CMAS. In the US only SEI is currently authorized to issue CMAS certs through the Underwater Society of America which is a CMAS affiliate. Formerly the YMCA issued CMAS certs in the US.
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DevonDiver
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Maybe, you've heard about the British agency BSAC which was an founder member of CMAS, but in 1997 BSAC was expelled by CMAS. Has PADI the same story?
fisheater
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What have you confirmed? The article you cite, which is noted as needing work to meet Wikipedia's standards, does not say anything like that.
It also says this:
Governance
The first nine sports listed above [Note: This includes scuba] are governed by CMAS, as is aquathlon (underwater wrestling). Freediving is also governed by AIDA International. Sub-aqua diving has various other international agencies controlling it, including the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and the British Sub-Aqua Club, amongst others.
The first nine sports listed above [Note: This includes scuba] are governed by CMAS, as is aquathlon (underwater wrestling). Freediving is also governed by AIDA International. Sub-aqua diving has various other international agencies controlling it, including the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and the British Sub-Aqua Club, amongst others.
The vague implication that CMAS governs scuba diving world wide is simply incorrect.
see: http://www.divernetxtra.com/safety/cmas598.htm
for the citation in Wikipedia
Also, when researching scuba agencies worldwide several years ago, I downloaded the CMAS database of federations. PADI was not among them. Might they have been a member earlier? Perhaps, but I'd rather see confirmation before believing it.
fisheater
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I don't see how they could have been. Even a CMAS one star diver gets rescue skills and emergency deco planning.
As for this statement " Sub-aqua diving has various other international agencies controlling it, including the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and the British Sub-Aqua Club, amongst others."
I'd call bull crap on all of it. No one governs scuba and none of them control it. Agencies issue certifications supposedly based on standards set by the WRSTC and other bodies depending on country. I'm guessing the author of the article doesn't have English as a first language and also has little personal experience. Looks like they cobbled together some stuff and attempted to put it together. But you do not need a cert to dive nor permission from anyone except in some of those weird countries where other freedoms are also limited.
Here is the article referenced in item 9 on the wiki page
So long, CMAS
Seems to boil down to a pissing contest between the French and the British. Surprise there as they have only been having one for a few hundred years.
As for this statement " Sub-aqua diving has various other international agencies controlling it, including the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and the British Sub-Aqua Club, amongst others."
I'd call bull crap on all of it. No one governs scuba and none of them control it. Agencies issue certifications supposedly based on standards set by the WRSTC and other bodies depending on country. I'm guessing the author of the article doesn't have English as a first language and also has little personal experience. Looks like they cobbled together some stuff and attempted to put it together. But you do not need a cert to dive nor permission from anyone except in some of those weird countries where other freedoms are also limited.
Here is the article referenced in item 9 on the wiki page
So long, CMAS
Seems to boil down to a pissing contest between the French and the British. Surprise there as they have only been having one for a few hundred years.
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