ADAS stands for the Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme. Through its international status, world class training standards and mutual recognition arrangements with other equivalent national schemes, ADAS qualifications have global recognition and acceptance.
ADAS-certified personnel are employed around the world – in Africa, Antarctica, Canada, China, Russia, South America, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, the USA – the list goes on and ADAS divers are out there getting down and dirty.
ADAS is, however, far more than just an energetic, active and preeminent occupational diver certification scheme. ADAS also proudly lays claim to being at the forefront in terms of providing extensive support to its divers and other certification holders.
ADAS actively works towards improving the conditions and safety of its certificate holders. We meet and communicate regularly with the industry’s peak bodies and regulators from around the world to review and enhance diving and diving–related training and assessment standards and to improve the global portability and recognition of diver qualifications.
We are energetically working to improve our own training and certification programs to make them more relevant to the related industry sectors. We are constantly looking for ways to make our training more accessible to our trainees through the utilisation of new technological developments. In the process, we aim to offer access to all divers and interested parties to up-to-date revision and extension materials through our new distance learning arrangements. We want to make this information available to all and to do our bit to improve the professionalism of the industry.