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OFF-SITE STORAGE
Acquisition Information
Preferred Citation
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Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: American Academy of Underwater Sciences Records
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0773
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
1.6 Linear feet
(4 archives boxes)
Date: 1956-2015
Abstract: Records of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), including extensive documentation of the organization's efforts
to exempt scientific diving from OSHA commerical diving regulations in the early 1980s, and board meeting minutes.
Creator:
American Academy of Underwater Sciences.
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 2015.
Preferred Citation
American Academy of Underwater Sciences Records, MSS 773. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Administrative History
The mission of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is to facilitate the development of safe and productive
scientific divers through education, research, advocacy, and the advancement of standards for scientific diving practices,
certifications, and operations. The AAUS was officially chartered in California in 1983 by individuals and organizations involved
in the effort to obtain the scientific diving exemption from OSHA commercial diving standards. In the years since, the AAUS
has expanded from the original six organizational members to more than 130 organizational members and over 1100 individual
members. Organizational membership includes colleges and universities, government agencies, museums and aquaria, environmental
and archaeological consulting firms, and community science groups sharing a common thread of the use of diving as a research
tool and a commitment to the health and safety of scientific divers. AAUS produces consensual standards for the training and
certification of scientific divers and the operation of scientific diving programs, maintains statistics detailing scientific
diving activities and incident rates, conducts annual symposia and topical workshops, and directly supports student research.
Text from http://www.aaus.org/about.
Scope and Content of Collection
Records of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), including extensive documentation of the organization's efforts
to exempt scientific diving from OSHA commerical diving regulations in the early 1980s, and board meeting minutes.
Arranged in three series: Series 1) OSHA EXEMPTION; Series 2) ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS; Series 3) DIVING HISTORY MATERIALS.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American Academy of Underwater Sciences. -- Archives
Scuba diving
Scuba diving -- Safety measures