Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques

The Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) is the highest governing body for all the underwater sports, including underwater rugby, football, hockey etc. It is also regarded as the World Underwater Federation.  

The organization oversees and controls as an international federation for the recreation and usage of snorkel and scuba diving training and coaching. It was founded in 1959 in Monaco and is the oldest organization of underwater diving. Since 2013, it has seven steering committees from Russia, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Belgium, Germany and France. The CMAS technical committee overlooks a diver training standard system known as the "CMAS International Diver Training Standards".

The World Underwater Federation was established in 1959, and at this point, it involves more than 130 leagues from 5 mainland continental. In addition to sorting out global underwater game events, it is at the front line of technical and logical innovative work. It tends to be related to explaining one of the most seasoned and most broad dive training frameworks.

On the 28th of September 1958, delegates from the accompanying Federations: Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, Brazil, France, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Switzerland, the United States of America and Yugoslavia met in Brussels on the event of the Congress of the independent International Confederation assembling every underwater sport disciplines.

With this point, a gathering was held in Monaco on January 9, 10 and 11, 1959 and a choice to set up the "World Confederation of Underwater Activities" in short "C.M.A.S.", was taken.

This Confederation succeeded, explicitly concerning all capacities and obligations, the "Comité des Sports Sous-Marins" (Underwater Sports Committee) of the International Confederation of Sport Fishing established on the 22nd of February 1952.