CMAS

단체 개요 / Overview

• CMAS (French: Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques / English: World Underwater Federation) is an international federation headquartered in Rome, Italy. Rather than being an individual instructor training organization, it is a body whose members are the national underwater federations of each country, with each member organization acting as the training and certification-issuing authority. [verified — cmaskorea.co.kr]
• Its grades follow a star system, composed of 1 Star / 2 Star / 3 Star Diver, and so on (detailed depth and equivalency mappings need verification). [verified — cmaskorea.co.kr]

한국 현황 / In Korea

• The Korean member organization is agency-kuda (Korea Underwater Association / Korea Underwater Fin Swimming Association). In this knowledge base's dive-shop data, CMAS is confirmed at 4 shops. [verified from dataset]
• For the shops that teach this organization, refer to the backlinks of this note (dive-shop notes that include agency-cmas in their agencies).

외국인 자격통용 / For Foreign Divers

• CMAS cards are familiar to European divers and are also accepted in Korea, but because the mainstream of the domestic fun-diving scene is the PADI/SDI family, shops that specialize in CMAS are few. [verified from dataset — only 4 CMAS shops]

출처 / Sources

• domains/09-certification-agencies (cmaskorea.co.kr, scubatravel.co.uk/training/qualifications)
• Internal data: aggregation of certification_agencies in data/dive-shops/*.yaml