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DAC 50+ YEARS

2008 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Dolphin Aquatic Club. As 50 years is a real milestone, we held a celebration in honor of this occasion. Members past and present of all ages got together for a night of celebration at the Polish Combatants hall in Sudbury on 12th of April, 2008.

A brief history of diving over the past 50 years:

Recreational scuba diving first appeared in Canada in the late 1940's. As scuba diving developed into a popular recreational activity during the 1950's and 60's a number of scuba clubs came into being across Canada. Many of these clubs decided to join forces and form regional diving councils or federations. The purpose of these regional groups was to serve the interests of the local clubs as democratic regional forums controlled by club members.

Important advances relating to scuba safety that began in the 1960s become widely implemented in the 1970s, including: adoption of certification cards to indicate a minimum level of training and as a requirement for tank refills rental of scuba equipment; change from J-valve reserve systems to non-reserve K valves and adoption of submersible pressure gauges; adoption of the buoyancy compensator and single hose regulators as essential pieces of diving equipment (replacing the dual hose, non-BC equipment initially in widespread use).

In 1983 the first commercially available dive computer, the Orca Edge, is introduced. In the next decade many manufacturers market dive computers, and they become common equipment among recreational divers worldwide.

The 50th anniversary of the invention of modern scuba diving is celebrated around the world in 1993.

ACUC History:

In 1969 numerous regional diving councils met together to create the Association of Canadian Underwater Councils (known as A.C.U.C.) which would provide a national forum for their interests and concerns.

In the 1960's some of the other training agencies' standards were extensively used by Canadian Instructors. These standards had been developed in warm, good visibility waters. It was not long before pressure was exerted on A.C.U.C. to develop a scuba training program suitable for diving in lower temperature, limited visibility waters where tides, and sometimes altitudes, were taken into account.

In 1983, the decision was made to restructure the organization. The new direction taken by A.C.U.C. was that of a professional scuba training organization controlled by an active instructor membership.

The American Canadian Underwater Certifications, Inc., now popularly known as ACUC International, has grown to become an international leader in high quality sport diver training.

The future of diving is sunny. More and more people will take up scuba diving and the ones that already are will continue to explore new destinations and challenges such as deeper diving, technical diving, free-diving and cave-diving. The equipment is only getting better, easier to handle and lighter.

The ACUC Head Office is located in Ontario, Canada, which is responsible for the overall running of the Company as well as the North American operations. ACUC Europe, located in Madrid, Spain, is responsible for the operations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central & South America, and Australia. Besides Canada and Spain, up to now, they are also now celebrating the opening of delegation offices in Argentina, Cuba, Greece; India and Italy.

Recognized for their commitment to safety, education and the environment, ACUC is the civilian certification of choice for many military, police and rescue services in Canada and abroad, and we currently have over 2,000 professionals teaching our programs in over 43 countries around the world.

ACUC teaches all levels of recreational scuba diving, from basic Scuba Diver to Instructor Evaluator.