International Diving Schools Association ______

IDSA OPERATIONAL & ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
SECTION 4 - IDQC ISSUING PROCEDURES
4.1 GENERAL
An IDSA Diver Qualification Card (IDQC) is issued to students who graduate successfully. It supplements
the National Qualification and does not replace it. It may stand alone if there is no National Qualification, or it
may be adopted as the National Qualification.
IDQC’s are issued centrally by the Secretariat, and the procedure for Full Members Schools who wish to
issue them to their students, is given in this section.
The Secretariat is responsible for the management of a Database containing the details of all IDQC’s issued.
Organisations wishing to verify a card may do so with the Secretariat.
The credit card size IDQC will contain the following information plus a photograph of the student :-
IDSA Level School Date of Issue
Last Name First Name Date of Assessment/Graduation
Date of Birth IDSA Card Number
Authorising Signature of the Administrator or his authorised deputy.
The cost of the IDQC’s will be set at IDSA Annual Meetings to cover the expense of their issue, and make a
contribution to the overall cost of administration.
IDQC’s will normally be issued on graduation from a Full Member School - Section 4.2. However, if this has
not been possible the relevant procedures are shown in Section 4.3.
Graduates from non-IDSA Schools, and divers who are experienced but hold no qualification may obtain an
IDSA after successful completion of a Competence assessment following the procedure in section 4.4
If for some reason IDQC’s are not available for students on Graduation e.g. a postal delay, they may be
issued with a Temporary Card/certificate which has an expiry date - clearly identifiable on the card - one
month after graduation.
The procedures for the issue of IDQC’s follow.
Note :
All requests for IDQC’s must be accompanied by a photograph of the diver. They may be sent either by E
Mail or by conventional mail, E Mail is preferred as it is faster and saves storage space.
a. If sent by E Mail the relevant form as shown in the F series of Appendices should be transmitted in
Word format and a photograph of student attached separately as a jpg file, image size : height 7.6
and width 5.7 cm. Each photograph should clearly relate to the Student by name and/or reference
number.
b. If sent by Conventional Mail the relevant form as shown in the F series of Appendices should be
accompanied by two passport size photographs of each student, one for their certificate and one
for the record. The name of the student must be written in capital letters on the back of each
photograph.
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