SDI

단체 개요 / Overview

• SDI (Scuba Diving International) is a recreational training agency launched in 1998. Its parent company is International Training, based in Stuart, Florida, USA, and it belongs to the same group as the technical agency agency-tdi. [verified — Wikipedia/tdisdi.com]
• It was the first agency to adopt dive computer use as the standard in Open Water courses, and it pioneered online education (eLearning) in 2002. [verified — tdisdi.com]

한국 현황 / In Korea

• In this knowledge base's dive-shop data, it appears at 11 shops, the second most after PADI. Because it shares a parent company with TDI, a single shop often teaches both SDI and TDI. [verified from dataset]
• For shops teaching this agency, refer to this note's backlinks (dive-shop notes that include agency-sdi in their agencies).

외국인 자격통용 / For Foreign Divers

• The SDI C-card is mutually recognized at fun-diving sites across Korea. [verified — WRSTC/agency sources]
• SDI/TDI broadly accepts instructor crossovers from active instructors of recognized agencies such as PADI, SSI, NAUI, CMAS, BSAC, and RAID. [verified — tdisdi.com]

출처 / Sources

• domains/09-certification-agencies (tdisdi.com/our-story, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuba_Diving_International)
• Internal data: aggregation of certification_agencies from data/dive-shops/*.yaml