Certifications
| Certification Name | Pre Requisites | Minimum Age | Max Depth | More Info | Certifying Dive Shops |
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| ADSI, Advance Open Water Diver |
12-15
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| ADSI, Assistant Instructor | Divemasters with accumulated bottom time of 200 hours or equivalent to 70 open water dives |
70
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| ADSI, Basic Open Water Diver | 25 |
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| ADSI, Dive Master | Rescue Diver Certification, Accumulated bottom time of 150 hours or equivalent to 40 - 50 open water dives |
40-50
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| ADSI, Master Instructor | Open Water Instructors with core courses and a choice of specialization in Technological Diving Engineering Research Diving |
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| ADSI, Open Water Instructor | Assistant Instructors with accumulated bottom time of at least 300 hours or more and equivalent to 100 open water logged dives |
100
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| ADSI, Rescue Diver | Bottom time of 90 - 100 hours, have dives at depths of more than 20 meters |
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1 dive shops View All |
Your diving journey always starts with your diver certification. Diving is an immensely fun activity but needs to be done correctly as it can be very dangerous when done irresponsibly. Finding the right training for the diving activity that you intend to partake can be a challenging task.
There are a number of Diver certification bodies with hundreds of different courses offered; these courses are interrelated through a system of prerequisites and requirements such as age, experience and other factors. Through manual research we have compiled a unified database of all certifications & qualifications offered by the major bodies with notes, prerequisites and age requirements for each one.
The database below should provide some insight to the path that a diver can take in attaining the perfect mix of training necessary for the conditions and activities that he/she desires to partake in.