Divers Deluxe - Contact Details Kevin Opperman Cellphone: 082 384 2623

Our Mission

Divers Deluxe strives to be the best training and dive package service provider in South Africa. We source the best dive instructors and dive sites to provide our customers with the best service possible.

Company Profile

Divers Deluxe is an Emalahleni (Witbank) based scuba diving organisation affiliated to CMAS-ISA. Divers Deluxe was established as a "package provider" in 2006 and has since grown into a full, SCUBA one-stop service. We offer various training packages from Introduction to diving to SCUBA instructor.

Who is CMAS and Why should I choose CMAS?

Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) is the World Underwater Federation. CMAS is the international umbrella organisation for recreational diver training organisations and underwater sports. It was founded in Brussels on September 28, 1958. One of the founding members was the French underwater pioneer Philippe Tailliez. As such, it is one of the world's oldest scuba diving organisations. (The Cave Diving Group (CDG) was founded in 1946 in the UK. The British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) was founded in 1953.) The international office is currently in Rome.
CMAS offers an international framework for diver and instructor qualifications in scuba diving and snorkelling. Members of the CMAS Council are representatives of recognised national diving organisations that guarantee the CMAS standards are upheld within the constraints of local diving conditions. These national organisations award CMAS qualification cards which have the appropriate CMAS grade on one side and details of the relevant national organisation and the person they have qualified on the other.

Since effectively CMAS started as a volunteer organisation for hobbyists, its courses tend to reflect the full range of European and world diving standards. Compared to other diving organisations which may be more geared towards holiday and tropical water diving, the training philosophy of CMAS members' clubs originates from professional or military diving backgrounds. While organisations like PADI or SSI tend to bring divers into the water immediately, CMAS training is more extensive and strives to produce more experienced, knowledgeable and skilled divers. The difference between CMAS and US-originated dive education in their philosophies for diving is still very noticeable. CMAS is entirely about quality education over profit, which accounts for its programmes being taught worldwide in more dive schools than dive shops. Implicit in this is that non-CMAS affiliated diving organisations are more often operated on a commercial basis.

CMAS History

An international congress of federations representing all underwater disciplines met in Brussels on 28 September 1958. Delegates were drawn from following countries: Belgium, Brazil, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Switzerland, the United States of America and Yugoslavia. Following a decision at that congress, a meeting was held in Monaco on 9–11 January 1959, which established the "World Confederation of Underwater Activities", known by the acronym of its French title as "CMAS".
CMAS became the successor to the "Comité des Sports Sous-Marins" (Underwater Sports Committee) of the International Confederation of Sport Fishing, which was founded on 22 February 1952. 

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