Certification

Dive Certification

We offer medical fitness to dive certification in accordance with:

  1. Code for the Medical Examination of Divers, Diving Operations Regulations, under the Occupational Health and Safety Act of Ontario. (R.R.O. 1990 Reg 848)
  2. Canadian Standards Association Subcommittee on Commercial Diving, Code Z275.4.
  3. Regulations of the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency
  4. Recommendations on Fitness to Dive, by the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society
  5. The Diver’s Certification Board of Canada (DCBC)


We have state of the art equipment for electrocardiograms, pulmonary function testing, blood pressure monitoring, audiograms and tympanometry. Blood tests are taken at our centre and sent to an external laboratory.

If more sophisticated diagnostic testing is required, such as stress tests and 2-D echocardiograms, arrangements are made at the main site of the North York General Hospital at 4001 Leslie Street, north of Highway 401.

Diving medical examinations and medical tests are not a benefit of OHIP

To Book An Appointment

Please inform the medical staff that you wish to be seen for a
‘Fitness to Dive Assessment, a Diving Injury or Medical Issue’.

The initial assessment will take approximately an hour.

To Book An Appointment