PADI was a member of the CMAS or it was never a member?
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Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is the world's largest recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson. Cronin was originally a NAUI instructor who decided to form his own organization with Erickson, and to break diver training down into different courses instead of the single universal course then prevalent.
What exactly are you asking? Agencies are not members of CMAS. CMAS authorizes certain bodies or organizations to issue CMAS certs. Some do so as CMAS. In the US only SEI is currently authorized to issue CMAS certs through the Underwater Society of America which is a CMAS affiliate. Formerly the YMCA issued CMAS certs in the US.
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Maybe, you've heard about the British agency BSAC which was an founder member of CMAS, but in 1997 BSAC was expelled by CMAS. . . .
Yes, I confirm.There's a story there. Right?
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see: http://www.divernetxtra.com/safety/cmas598.htmThere's a story there. Right?
see: http://www.divernetxtra.com/safety/cmas598.htm
for the citation in Wikipedia
Also, when researching scuba agencies worldwide several years ago, I downloaded the CMAS database of federations. PADI was not among them. Might they have been a member earlier? Perhaps, but I'd rather see confirmation before believing it.