The ISO-8804 series: What kind of Scientific Diving is concerned here ?
Résumé
Following a demand from the Blue Economy EU Funded project ScienceDiver to the ISO Technical Committee ISO/TC 228 working on Tourism and related services. Working group 1 of TC228 (diving services) started to work in 2021 (14/04/21) on three standards addressing the training of scientific divers “as a whole”, gathered in a fuzzy concept. The convenor of WG1 composed a team of experts including recreational diving training agencies, individual scientists and members that became ISO liaison organisation or not. If, at the end of the first meeting, the basement for the standard were the ESDP standards with an additional level lower than the ESD needed for North American associations, but ended up different. This paper (1) untangles the elements coming from the semantic used, (2) assesses consequences of this situation on occupational scientific diving, if it were to persist, and (3) proposes an action plan to encourage the increasingly vital integration of citizen science (amateur scientific divers) into large-scale coordinated scientifically validated projects.
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