Professional diving - Request certification, recognition, accreditation or documentation

Learn how you can request certification, recognition, accreditation and documentation within professional diving.

Service channels

Learn where you can carry out the service and what are the advantages of each channel

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Who can request certification, recognition, accreditation or documentation of professional diving?

What are the documents and requirements to request certification, recognition, accreditation or documentation of professional diving?

  • The following documents are necessary:

    • updated Europass model curriculum vitae
    • diploma of the course issued by the training entity
    • syllabus of the course with respective workload and programmatic contents
    • professional diving booklet or legally equivalent document 
    • proof of medical examinations validated by a hyperbaric doctor, with a date not exceeding 12 months.

    Thus, after signing in on the Capitania online + platform, the applicant must submit all documents, preferably in PDF format.

How can you request certification, recognition, accreditation or documentation of professional diving?

You can perform the service face-to-face or online.

Face-to-face
At the Online Captaincy Automatic Terminals (TACO), available for use from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the maritime offices buildings.

Online

  1. To carry out the service you must follow the following steps:
  2. Access to Capitania Online+ (Online Captaincy)
  3. Authenticate with one of the following options:
  4. select the type of service - professional diving
  5. then fill in a form and attach the requested documents.

What is the deadline to request certification, recognition, accreditation or documentation of professional diving?

  • divers - from 24 hours to 1 week
  • schools and companies - up to 10 days
  • doctors - immediate.

What is the price to request certification, recognition, accreditation or documentation of professional diving?

  • Issue of the professional diver card - 65.28€
  • Renewal/replacement of professional diver card - 52.30€
  • Recognition of technical capacity - 140.76€
  • Issue of certification/accreditation to carry out the nature of the work proposed, training or promoter - 104.04€
  • Proof of situation with medical card - 15.30€
  • Proof of situation without medical card - free of charge