THE ADVANCED EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC DIVER (AESD) | to ESD standards An Advanced European Scientific Diver is a diver capable of organizing a scientific diving team. He/she may attain this level by either a course or by in-field training and experience under suitable supervision or by a (...)

THE EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC DIVER (ESD) | to AESD standards A European Scientific Diver is a diver capable of acting as a member of a scientific diving team. He/she may attain this level by either a course or by in-field training and experience under suitable supervision or by a combination of (...)

Scientific Diving (SD) : The purpose of SD is the undertaking and delivery of underwater science. It is needed : • to support research and education ; • for the protection and conservation of the natural and cultural environment. It is neither recreational nor commercial diving. SD exists in a (...)

A long process (late 1980s - 2000) has led to propose the establishment of European standards for SD and to make visible a panel through the Marine Board of the European Science Foundation between 2008 and 2017. ESDP currently is receiving organizational support from the European network of (...)

The requirement to establish standard competencies throughout Europe was foreseen, and in the late 1980s scientists who used diving in their research sought to initiate the harmonization of the rules and procedures for scientific diving in Europe (European Scientific Diving ad hoc committee). (...)