IANTD Recreational Programs
Open Water SCUBA Experience (OC Only)
This experience program is designed to introduce the student to the basic concept of open water diver program and skills.
Supervised Diver (OC Only)
This Program is designed to provide basic training to those who wish to enter into SCUBA diving adventures within limited time.
Open Water Diver & Open Water Nitrox Diver (OC Only)
This Program is designed to provide comprehensive training to those who wish to become SCUBA divers. Here we emphasizes the skills and knowledge
Advanced Open Water Diver (OC, Rebreather)
This Program is designed to provide comprehensive training to those who wish to become SCUBA divers. Here we emphasizes the skills and knowledge
Rescue Diver (OC, Rebreather)
This Program is designed to provide comprehensive training to those who wish to become SCUBA divers. Here we emphasizes the skills and knowledge
Enriched Air Nitrox Diver (OC Only)
This Program is designed to provide Sport Divers with a safer than air breathing medium for enjoying dives in the 40 to 130 fsw (12 to 39 msw) depth ranges.
Deep Diver (OC, Rebreather)
The IANTD Deep Diver Program trains divers in skills, performance, theory and planning of deep dives.
Recreational Trimix Diver (OC, Rebreather)
This Program is designed to provide a breathing medium for extending dives using ENDs no greater than 80 fsw (24 msw) depth ranges.
Life Support Systems Service Technician
This Program is designed to train competent personnel in the safe preparation and maintenance of life support systems to be used
A International Association of Nitrox & Technical Divers foi fundada em 1985 para atender às necessidades de muitos mergulhadores. Nessa época o uso de misturas gasosas para o mergulho e gases de descompresão estava limitado, oficialmente, aos militares e aos mergulhadores comerciais.
Em 1985 Dick Rutkowski aposentou-se do cargo de supervisor de mergulho da National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) e, juntamente com outros líderes da comunidade de mergulho, fundou a International Association of Nitrox Divers. O objetivo era apresentar os benefícios do Nitrox para diversos cenários de mergulho e ensinar o seu uso seguro em mergulhos recreativos e descompressivos.
Em 1992 sob a liderença de Tom Mount, a organização cresceu para se tornar a principal agência de treinamento de mergulho técnico do mundo, oferecendo cursos sobre todos os aspectos do mergulho esportivo. O nome foi então mudado para International Association of Nitrox & Technical Divers, IANTD, para melhor refletir a ênfase no mergulho técnico