United Diving Instructors

United Diving Instructors

Abbreviation	UDI
Motto	The New Way to the Diving Instructor
Formation	1983
Headquarters	Nuremberg, Germany
Membership	over 130,000 dive professional, 6000 Dive Centers and Resorts
Leader	Peter Dolezyk
Website	http://www.u-d-i.de

The United Diving Instructors (UDI) is the diver training organization founded in 1983 by Z. Fisher and H. G. Golzing in California, USA.

Kids programs

Junior Diver *
Junior Diver **
Junior Diver ***

Recreational diving certifications

Pool Diver
Basic Diver
Open Water Diver
Advanced Open Water Diver
Special Diver

Specialty courses

UDI provide a range of specialty courses, examples of which include:

Orientation and Compass Diver
Night Diver
Deep Diver
Rescue Diver
Dry-Suit Diver
Drift Diver
Mountain Lake Diver
Cave Cavern Diver
Ice Diver
Diving Technician
Compress Diver
Wreck Diver
Mixed Gas Diver
Apnea Diver

Professional certifications

Open Water Instructor *
International Instructor **
Staff Instructor ***
Honorary Master Instructor ****

External links

Diver training, certification and accreditation organisations

Commercial
certification authorities

Recreational
certification agencies

American Canadian Underwater Certifications (ACUC)
American Nitrox Divers International (ANDI)
Association nationale des moniteurs de plongée (ANMP)
British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC)
Comhairle Fo-Thuinn (CFT)
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
Fédération Française d'Études et de Sports Sous-Marins (FFESSM)
Federazione Italiana Attività Subacquee (FIAS)
Federación Española de Actividades Subacuáticas (FEDAS)
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
International Association for Handicapped Divers (IAHD)
International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD)
International Association of Rebreather Trainers (IART)
International Diving Educators Association (IDEA)
Israeli Diving Federation (TIDF)
National Association for Cave Diving (NACD)
National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE)
National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI)
Nederlandse Onderwatersport Bond (NOB)
Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)
Professional Diving Instructors Corporation International (PDIC)
The Sub-Aqua Association (SAA)
Scuba Diving International (SDI)
Scuba Educators International (SEI)
Scottish Sub Aqua Club (SSAC)
Scuba Schools International (SSI)
Türkiye Sualtı Sporları Federasyonu (TSSF)
United Diving Instructors (UDI)
Unified Team Diving (UTD)
YMCA SCUBA Program

Recreational
certification levels

Scientific diver
certification authorities

Technical
certification agencies

Cave diving	Cave Divers Association of Australia (CDAA) Cave Diving Group (CDG) Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) National Association for Cave Diving (NACD) National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) Unified Team Diving (UTD) Technical Diving International (TDI)

American Nitrox Divers International (ANDI)
British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC)
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
Diving Science and Technology (DSAT)
Federazione Italiana Attività Subacquee (FIAS)
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD)
International Association of Rebreather Trainers (IART)
National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI)
Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)
Professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC)
Technical Diving International (TDI)
Trimix Scuba Association (TSA)
Technical Extended Range (TXR)
Unified Team Diving (UTD)

Free-diving
certification agencies

AIDA International (AIDA)
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS)
Performance Freediving International (PI)
Scuba Schools International (SSI)

Underwater diving training organizations
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