{"id":29,"date":"2011-08-08T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T08:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agix.com.au\/scuba\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2018-02-13T04:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:14:27","slug":"about-faui","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"About FAUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/iStock_000013635094Medium1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/iStock_000013635094Medium1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/iStock_000013635094Medium1.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/iStock_000013635094Medium1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/iStock_000013635094Medium1-1024x737.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><strong>Internationally Recognised Diver Qualifications<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scubacom.com.au\/oscommerce\/images\/faui.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/><\/h1>\n<p>Since the early 1960&#8217;s our name has changed a number of times. We started as <strong>NQS<\/strong> (National Qualification System) and changed to <strong>FAUI<\/strong> (Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors) in the 1970&#8217;s, eventually merging with <strong>NASDS &#8211; USA<\/strong> (National Association of Scuba Diving Schools) becoming <strong>NASDS Australasia Inc<\/strong> in the 1980&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, for a number of reasons, NASDS Australasia Inc faded from view to the disappointment of many people involved in this quality diver training system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scuba Com Pty Ltd<\/strong> is now funding the regeneration of <strong>FAUI<\/strong> with a slight name change to \u201c<strong>Formation of Australian Underwater Instructors<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internationally Recognised Diver Qualifications Since the early 1960&#8217;s our name has changed a number of times. We started as NQS (National Qualification System) and changed to FAUI (Federation of Australian Underwater Instructors) in the 1970&#8217;s, eventually merging with NASDS &#8211; USA (National Association of Scuba Diving Schools) becoming NASDS Australasia Inc in the 1980&#8217;s. Since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/?page_id=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About FAUI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faui.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}