IAND, INC./IANTD GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES

IANTD's. mission is to understand the opportunities and challenges of Nitrox, Advanced and Technical diving, in order to foster openness, individual responsibilities, and provide a standard of care for instruction in the diving community. IANTD believes in the Golden Rule and will be honest, ethical and fair in all our venues. We also believe that there are universal principles and natural laws that are more absolute. We try to live by them. We envision our mission activities in the following areas:

I. PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY. IANTD is working to promote openness in the diving community; to share procedures, techniques and operational methods with divers seeking to expand their diving experiences. IANTD will stay informed on diving developments and include them in its diving activities.

II. SAFER DIVER PROGRAM. IANTD believes individual diver responsibilities are developed through aggressive skill refinement and experience in the water. Vigorous instruction with a strong student / instructor relationship, enhancing a transfer of the diving responsibility to the student, is our essence.

III. PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND REFINEMENT. IANTD has developed programs to increase diving knowledge and skill levels. We will continue redefining these programs, based on reports from instructors in the field, to improve and strengthen their value to our membership. We will continue to develop a set of core values that apply to advanced and technical diving. IANTD Standards and Procedures have been developed and have evolved to allow worldwide recognition of skill and knowledge at each certification level addressed by IANTD.

IV. FOSTERING COMMUNITY. Much of the work IANTD has done has been directed at fostering a sense of community in the diving world. The diving community, by virtue of its size, needs internal cooperation to prosper and grow; anything less is counter productive.