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The NASE Worldwide Difference
With NASE Worldwide, the actual job of teaching students is shared both by the training agency and the instructor. It is the training agency’s job to train safe, competent instructors and provide them with student materials that are complete, professional, and forward looking. Because the quality of instruction that a student receives is dependent upon the preparedness and professionalism of the instructor, NASE Worldwide instructors are given the latitude to teach each course in the manner that best accomplishes the main objective: training competent, safe divers. This is, of course, while adhering to a set of standards and procedures set forth by ANSI and other worldwide bodies for the recreational diving community.

WASI/NASE Worldwide Diver Development Centers are never pressured into making large training material purchases from the certifying agency just to maintain affiliation or attain an ambiguous status level. You will never hear of a booking order from a NASE Worldwide representative. Our goal is to make it easy and profitable for stores and instructors alike to follow their own business plans - not one the agency sets up.

Perhaps the best way to sum up the difference is that NASE Worldwide believes the diver is a customer of the store - not the training agency! We are there to support our members. This is why we never sell, trade, or give the names of your divers to anyone! Not magazines, not manufacturers, not your competition!

If you are a professional dive store, or instructor, and these policies are attractive to you... contact us so we can discuss your future with WASI/NASE Worldwide. If you are a diver, or soon to be diver, and want to be trained by instructors who can concentrate on your education, and tailor a course using materials and policies that fit you, instead of a generic guideline... seek out a NASE Worldwide store in your area.

NASE Worldwide History

NASE, the National Academy of Scuba Educators, was founded in 1982 in Lubbock, Texas. It was the concept of a group of diving enthusiasts and business experts who identified a different approach to certification agencies and their business practices. Some of the best ideas of this fledgling forerunner of NASE Worldwide remain with us today.

In 1991 NASE became a voting member of ANSI. ANSI sets the standards for recreational scuba training in the United States. The RSTC later became a secretariat to ANSI, responsible for making standards recommendations for adoption by the recreational diving community. NASE Worldwide adheres strictly to the standards as published by ANSI.

Throughout the mid 1990's NASE stayed progressive by being one of the first agencies to stop buddy breathing exercises due to health and safety reasons, and was one of the first recreational agencies to embrace the use of Nitrox during diver training programs.

In 1999 NASE Worldwide was formed as an entirely new and forward looking scuba training agency, bringing together some of the ideas and principles created by NASE and a new training agency, the World Association of Scuba Instructors. WASI was established in 1996 in Salt Lake City, Utah. At that time new standards were adopted for NASE Worldwide taking the very best ideas established by both NASE and WASI. During the process, new and modern training materials were developed for our members use, setting NASE Worldwide apart as a new leader in scuba education.

In 2000, NASE Worldwide became the first Scuba Training Agency to begin investigating the suitability of C-card processing on the web for their instructors and member dive shops. Today, over thirty percent of our certification cards are processed over the internet, at a great savings to both our members and the agency.

In 2001 NASE Worldwide became the first recreational scuba education agency to receive the prestigious accreditation in Europe by the United Kingdom’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Today, NASE Worldwide has a vast and growing membership throughout the world, scuba professionals and dive shops that recognize the value of a training agency, with a worldwide presence that works for them.

If you are a scuba professional ready to enter the future of scuba training, NASE Worldwide can be for you!