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ADAS has negotiated formal reciprocal recognition agreements with the governments of UK, Canada and Norway and is currently negotiating recognition with a number of other countries.ADAS is committed to attaining and retaining its standards at the level of world best practice and to this end is a foundation member of the International Diving Regulators’ Forum.

The Forum members, comprised of those countries which have reciprocal recognition agreements on diver certification, have agreed to undertake regular peer reviews of their respective arrangements and to identify and implement best practice in diver training and assessment to harmonise cross-border diver training outside Europe.Forum members have also agreed to share best practice in order to maintain and improve safety in diver training and to facilitate reciprocal recognition of diver qualifications.

Within this context:

• recognition of ADAS certification for the UK and the UK North Sea has just recently again been confirmed;

• ADAS and Canada are presently in the process of reviewing each other’s arrangements preparatory to renewing our agreement.

• Discussions were recently conducted between ADAS and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and it was agreed that the two organisations should in the near future review and renew their reciprocal diving certification recognition agreements (which are now over 10 years old).

In practice, ADAS diver certification is already widely accepted throughout the world and ADAS divers seem to be working everywhere from Russia to the South China seas. The state of our international partnerships seem to be in a very healthy state indeed.

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