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Claim CompanyInterested Geographies North America | Interested Industries Science & Research, Education & Training, Miscellaneous, Environment & Waste |
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+The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is a non-profit, self-regulating body dedicated to the establishment and maintenance of standards of practice for scientific diving with a mission of advancing and facilitating safe and productive scientific diving. The AAUS was officially chartered in California in 1983 by individuals and organizations involved in the effort to obtain the scientific diving exemption from OSHA commercial diving standards. In the years since, the AAUS has expand ... Show Moreed from the original six organizational members to more than 140 organizational members, including international members, and over 2000 individual members. Organizational membership includes colleges and universities, government agencies, museums and aquaria, environmental and archaeological consulting firms, and community science groups sharing a common thread of the use of diving as a research tool and a commitment to the health and safety of scientific divers. AAUS produces consensual standards for the training and certification of scientific divers and the operation of scientific diving programs, maintains statistics detailing scientific diving activities and incident rates, conducts annual symposia and topical workshops, and directly supports student research.The AAUS is concerned with diving safety, state-of-the-art diving techniques, methodologies, and research diving expeditions. For the diving scientist, AAUS provides a forum to share information on diving research, methodologies and funding; For the diving officer, AAUS provides an information base of the latest standards of practice for training, equipment, diving procedures and managerial and regulatory experience, and; For the student, AAUS provides exposure to individuals, agencies and organizations with ongoing programs in undersea research. Show Less
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