Australian Underwater Federation

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Australian Underwater Federation
Abbreviation AUF
Motto Bringing Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World.
Formation 1953[1]
Type NGO
Legal status Incorporated association, Victoria (Australia)
Purpose National Sporting Organisation
for underwater sports & recreational diving
Region served
 Australia
President
 Graham Henderson
Key people
 Richard (Dick) Charles, founder[2]
Harry Howell
Frank Poole
Wal Williams
George Davies BEM
Merv Sheehan
Tony Leslie
John Gillies
Gordon Ward
Wally Gibbons
Mel Brown
Toni DeFina
Graham Henderson
Tom Ransom
Richard Lane
Allen Hunt
Sue Dockar
Mary-Anne Stacey
Dr Adam Smith
Barry Andrewartha
[3]
Main organ
 Board
Affiliations CMAS
WAA
Recfish Australia
Website http://auf.com.au/
Formerly called
 Underwater Spearfishermen's Association of Australia

The Australian Underwater Federation (AUF) is the governing body for underwater sports in Australia.

Mission

The mission of the AUF is to:[4]

Bringing Sport, Conservation and Awareness to the Underwater World.

Organisation

The AUF is a membership-based organisation whose day-to-day operations are overseen by a federal board and by a number of committees (known as commissions) for following activities - finswimming (commission known as Ozfin Inc.), scuba, snorkel, spearfishing and underwater hockey (commission known as Underwater Hockey Australia). It also currently has state branches in New South Wales (incorporated as the Underwater Skindivers & Fishermen's Association Inc) and Queensland, and state commissions for finswimming and underwater hockey in most states.[5][6][7][8]

Recognition

The AUF is recognised by the Australian Sports Commission as the national sporting organisation (NSO) for underwater sports in Australia.[9] It is the Australian representative to Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS), with full voting rights to the Sports and Technical Committees and non-voting rights to the Scientific Committee.[10] The AUF is a member of the World AquaChallenge Association (WAA) and Recfish Australia.[11][12][13] It is also one of the organisations represented on the Standards Australia's Committee CS/83, Recreational Underwater Diving.[14]

Underwater sports

The AUF is the governing body for the following underwater sports within Australia: spearfishing, underwater hockey, finswimming and underwater rugby.[15]

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Further information: Finswimming in Australia, Underwater hockey in Australia, and Underwater rugby in Australia.

Diver training

Historically, the AUF operated as a diver training organisation offering instructor training and certification, and recreational diver certification in both snorkel and scuba diving. It currently issues CMAS International Diving certificates in its capacity as a member of the CMAS Technical Committee in respect to its own training programs and those offered by the Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors (FAUI) and the now-defunct Australian branch of NAUI.[16]

AUF currently offers training in snorkelling (including breath-hold technique) for open water and pool environments, and in coaching levels accredited with the Australian Government’s National Coaching Accreditation Scheme (NCAS) for three sports. Originally launched in 1985 under the name of the School Snorkelling Programme, the openwater training stream (known as Ocean) supports both recreational diving as well as the sports of spearfishing and photofishing (a breath-hold version of the sport of underwater photography offered by CMAS) while the pool stream is intended to develop proficiencies in finswimming and underwater hockey. The following instructional levels are currently offered - Finswimming Coach Level 1 and 2, Ocean Coach level 1 and 2, and Underwater Hockey Coach Level 1 and 2.[17][18]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Cunneen, Chris, 'Charles, Richard Stanley (Dick) (1901–1974)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/charles-richard-stanley-dick-9731/text17185, accessed 2 October 2012.
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  9. ↑ ‘National Sporting Organisations recognised by the Australian Sports Commission (as at February 2012)’, [1], retrieved 2/10/2012.
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