This update is the main communication \ue001rom PADI to you. It announces
important training standards and procedures changes and clari\ue000es those
that are established. It is a requirement o\ue001 your membership commitment
that you keep abreast o\ue001 standards by reviewing the in\ue001ormation con-
tained in these quarterly updates. Implementation and standards mailing
dates vary \ue001or members served by di\ue001\ue001erent PADI O\ue001\ue000ces, based, in part,
on translation schedules. Check with your PADI O\ue001\ue000ce \ue001or more speci\ue000c
in\ue001ormation.

Renewal Bene\ue000t \ue001or PADI Instructors
Required Materials Reminder
Membership and License Agreements
National Geographic Diver Program clari\ue000cation
Recompression Chamber In\ue001ormation
Instructor Development
Emergency First Response
New and Revised Forms

The Training Bulletin is published
quarterly by PADI,
Pro\ue001essional Association o\ue001
Diving Instructors

30151 Tomas Street
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
92688 USA
+1 949 858 7234

In January 2005, experts in the \ue000eld o\ue001 resuscitation and cardiovas-
cular science gathered to present their \ue000ndings to the International
Consensus o\ue001 CPR and ECC Science con\ue001erence. Con\ue001erence attend-
ees included the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
(ILCOR)\u2014which represents various international resuscitation coun-
cils around the world. That con\ue001erence \ue001ormed the scienti\ue000c basis \ue001or
the new CPR guidelines. It was determined that the new guidelines
would be drawn up and released by the various member organiza-
tions comprising ILCOR in late 2005. Some member organizations
have standards written based on these new guidelines, others have
not yet released them.

Emergency First Response and PADI programs (such as the PADI
Rescue Diver course) \ue001ollow guidelines established by ILCOR mem-
ber associations, so you can expect course changes to occur. Emer-
gency First Response and PADI are currently evaluating how these
guidelines will be incorporated into their courses.

Generally, the new guidelines emphasize simpli\ue000cation o\ue001 skills at the layperson level. To give you some examples, adult, child and in\ue001ant compression to ventilation ratios are now easier to remember because they\u2019re all the same: 30 to 2. There are moves to increase e\ue001\ue001ectiveness through emphasis on e\ue001\ue001ective chest compressions, and to avoid teaching techniques such as the jaw thrust at the lay person level. The changes will not cause great modi\ue000cation to the programs you\u2019re teaching; instead there will be some areas o\ue001 emphasis and a \ue001ew technique/timing changes that \ue001urther simpli\ue001y how we teach lay people. To simpli\ue001y training is per\ue001ectly in line with both Emergency First Response and PADI philosophy. We don\u2019t \ue001oresee that instructor retraining will be needed to implement these changes.

What does this mean \ue001or your current programs? Nothing, yet.
You can visit the web sites o\ue001 councils who already have published
standards incorporating the new guidelines and check out the
changes \ue001or yoursel\ue001 (see listings below). However, the guidelines
we\u2019ve been \ue001ollowing to date have been success\ue001ul \ue001or years; the
new guidelines are simply \ue000nessing an already established and use-
\ue001ul model. Emergency First Response and PADI will release speci\ue000c
changes to our programs in upcoming issues o\ue001 The Responder,

incorporate the new guidelines into Emergency First Response and
PADI student manuals and instructor guides as reprint schedules
permit.

This in\ue001ormational book not only has a new look, but also includes updates and additions to the text, photos and illustrations. You\u2019ll \ue000nd the latest in\ue001ormation about developments in dive exploration, dive theory and dive equipment.

Three signi\ue000cant additions include incorporating in\ue001ormation about technical diving, dive
equipment maintenance and decompression theory. Where appropriate throughout the book,
you can read about technical diving equipment, procedures and opportunities available
through technical diving. With the addition o\ue001 the equipment maintenance in\ue001ormation,The

decompression theory section encompasses all the in\ue001ormation \ue001rom the Decompression Theory, Dive Tables and Dive Computer book as well as up-to-date concepts and new research involv- ing decompression models.

reorganized to have more appeal to casual readers. It also speci\ue000cally applies in\ue001ormation to diving whenever possible. This makes it easier to get through the more technical sections when you understand why a diver needs to know the in\ue001ormation.

1 \u2014 The Underwater Adventure
2 \u2014 The Ocean Planet
3 \u2014 Dive Equipment
4 \u2014 Diving in the Material World - the Chemistry and Physics o\ue001 Diving
5 \u2014 The Diver Within - the Physiology o\ue001 Diving

it contains the \ue001oundational in\ue001ormation necessary \ue001or divers to step up their knowledge to the
pro\ue001essional level. Divemaster and instructor candidates who were exposed to this book early
in their dive education will \ue000nd it easy to pick up again and use it as a study tool. Keep in mind
that the The Encyclopedia \u2013 second edition continues to serve as an excellent resource and may
also be used to meet this materials requirement.

To help you market and sell The Encyclopedia \u2013 third edition there is a point o\ue001 pur-
chase display that holds The Encyclopedia book and the Encyclopedia Multimedia (third edi-
tion to be released Second Quarter 2006). There is also a trivia card game that contains 54
cards with intriguing and sometimes quirky questions about diving. All answers can be \ue001ound in