1985

IANTD (International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers)

Florida, USA

International Association of Nitrox Divers, IAND, was formed in 1985 by Dick Rutkowski in response to the needs of the diving public. Up until that time, mixed gas diving and the use of decompression gases was limited, in a formal way, to military and commercial divers. Dick’s goal was to introduce the benefits of using nitrox in many diving situations and to begin teaching safe decompression diving. In 1991, under the leadership of Tom Mount, the organisation grew into the leading technical training organisation in the world, offering courses covering all aspects of sport diving. At the same time, the name was changed to the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers, IANTD, to better reflect the organisation’s additional emphasis technical diving. Locations in Asia: China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand,

Taiwan (PRC), Cambodia, Maldives, Philippines, Brunei, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Turkey, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan