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“It can be taken for granted that where there is scuba diving, there is also CMAS with its history and its human and social values.
Values that make up a culture. Our culture. The culture of universal scuba diving that respects everything that surrounds it.” 

                                  Achille Ferrero
                                 CMAS President

CMAS is the acronym for Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques, also known as World Underwater Federation. Is the world`s first international diver training organization and was founded in January, 1959* in Monaco, by a confederation of fifteen countries, including Brazil, to establish an international diver-training standard.

Organized under the direction of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the co-founder of "Aqualung" and father of the modern sport of scuba diving, CMAS has grown to a membership of over one hundred countries. CMAS is headquartered within the International Olympic Committee building in Rome, Italy.                                                                    

* The organization was formally established on January, 10th, 1959, nearly four months after a preliminary session conducted in Brussels in September, 1958. As the representative for Monaco, the iconic Captain Jacques Cousteau presided over the plenary meeting of the 15 national delegations that founded CMAS. The brazilian delegation was one of them.