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Standards & Procedures for Procedures

1.0 Purpose of ISE

InnerSpace Explorers was founded toF provide the highest quality training available for all individuals sharing the common goal of underwater exploration and conservation.
The four main columns’ of Education & Training, Research and Exploration built the baseline for a safe approach in any advanced underwater activity.

1.1 ISE Goals

1.1.1 Education

ISE´s goal in Education is clearly defined by the need for state of the art training agency who´s instructors are actively involved in aquatic exploration. Compared to other exploration oriented organizations who’s reputation is based on one or two long ago projects and the single effort of the founder and few members, ISE is built by active divers who enter the aquatic world on a daily base with the desire to explore the unknown and who’s reputation is build on years of experience in the field and the publishing of their results.
This guarantees that training is conducted only by the highest experienced professional instead of a “hired gun”-typ instructor who´s only experience in the topic is the stories he heard from his masters.

1.1.3 Training

ISE Training is conducted only in the real environment / situation of the desired field. ISE uses s.c. critical skills in it´s training, helping the student to realize in a controlled situatio if he is able to conduct what he or she aims for and receive the feedback necessary to achieve the skills needed to proceed, instead of realizing that he or she is not able in a real scenario that might be unforgiving at best.

1.1.4 Research

Being actively involved in exploration efforts’ around the globe thru its members ISE has a professional background in research and the art of finding the right information needed before the actual exploration effort. Sharing this knowledge is one of the prime goals of ISE

1.1.5 Exploration

ISE is committed to underwater exploration around the world to help understanding and preserving the aquatic world with its inhabitants and its history as the ultimate source of life for the generations to come

1.2 Training Philosophy

1.2.1 Education

The highest quality education is essential for the safe enjoyment of exploration style diving. This means that a solid education must include both a strong academic component and a robust practical one, it requires a sound curriculum that focuses on both academic instruction and cultivating actual in-water skills in a controlled environment. ISE’s educational practices are very much in line with such requirements; these include:

  • Comprehensive standards: ISE courses maintain the highest training standards; combining a robust academic component with rigorous, no nonsense in-water training.
  • Pre-course study: There is too much mess information around to ask students to pre-read. We offer a class, not a test. All information needed is provided during that class or was transmitted in the prior classes.
  • Pre-course testing: To develop and ensure familiarity with the academic and practical components of the course , individuals are quizzed before the commencement of class
  • Instructors: ISE instructors are encouraged to exceed minimum training standards whenever it safely contributes to the participant’s learning process. Instructors are actively encouraged to deny qualification to students who are not completely prepared for the level pursued.

1.2.2 Equipment

ISE is committed to the DIR style equipment configuration, a holistic approach to diving that sees each element of a configuration system as an integral part of the whole. ISE is open minded and open for discussion when it comes to new techniques and materials that may offer a benefit over classical approaches – i.e. CCR Rebreathers

1.2.3 Experience

Experience, no matter in which field can only be obtained over time spend with the desired skills. Extensive in-water diver experience is the baseline of diver proficiency ISE in-water training consists of three parts: critical skills training, experience dives and post class practice.

  1. Critical Skills training
    This is the first step towards teaching students the required diving skills that prepare them for the rigors of diving. To do so, ISE instructors use the building block method. Since each student learns at a different rate, instructors introduce students to new skills when they are able to incorporate them. Once this is accomplished, they are allowed to practice these skills, are given review sessions as needed, and are allowed to put these to the test during realistic diving situations. An important aspect of all critical skill training is that failures and stressful situations are simulated, and are conducted in a controlled and safe environment. Each student is pushed to the limit of their learning and diving capabilities.
  2. Experience Dives
    During this phase of the in-water training, students dive within the limitations of the class not only to demonstrate and improve their skills but also to gain real dive experience. All ISE in-water training sessions consist of this important element, one that furnishes the transition from the learning phase to the actual diving phase.
  3. Post class practice and training Formal SCUBA training should be punctuated by breaks during which students can practice the requisite skill set that allows them to become more experienced at the level of diving for which they have been trained. Diving courses that emphasize progressing rapidly through numerous levels of training do not allow divers to build experience and to practice the learned skills that are crucial to a diver’s safety and proficiency. When students leave a ISE class, and before they progress to a higher level of instruction, they are given a dive profile that they can use to go and practice with. Before entering the next level of ISE training, all students should have undertaken a minimum of 30 practice dives.

1.3 Training Structure

1.3.1 Diver Pre-Qualification

  1. Purpose of Pre-qualification

    Individuals who prematurely enter a training course that exceeds their ability to perform to its standards can compromise their own safety and the safety of their entire dive team. ISE makes every reasonable effort to ensure that participants are properly prepared for the demands made on them by the respective training courses.

    To ensure that prospective ISE students are qualified to safely pursue their desired level of training, they are carefully screened. Student pre-course screening includes the following:
    • A. Registration: Prior to enrolling in a ISE course, prospective students must complete registration forms that reflect that they are suitable for the course in question. This allows both ISE headquarters and the individual instructors to assess whether, in terms of both personal experience and previous training, the prospective student meets the necessary prerequisites of the course in question.
    • B. Evaluation: Prior to the commencement of training, both ISE headquarters and the relevant ISE instructor review and evaluate the registration information submitted by a prospective student. This process, which may include an instructor interview of the student, allows ISE to determine whether students are prepared to meet the challenges posed by the course in question.
    • C. Experience: ISE requires that divers amass a certain amount of diving experience in the interim between training courses. Specific requirements are listed in the standards and procedures section for each diver-training course. In exceptional cases, the experience requirement can be waived by an individual instructor, but only with the support of the Training Director.
  2. Pre-Class Study
    Pre-class study is an essential part of proper course preparation, and enables divers to get the most out of their class; without pre-class preparation divers are severely limited in their ability to pursue proper diver training. ISE’s pre-class study perquisite entails satisfying recommended reading requirements, reviewing ISE training materials and completing a number of academic assignments. An effective pre-course study period enables students to enter diver training with the majority of academic learning already completed. This allows them then to focus on complicated topics and practical skill-based procedures during class time.
  3. Academic Review Sessions
    Academic review sessions, which go over particularly relevant or complex topics, are designed to reinforce student knowledge. This material must be familiar to students before the onset of these sessions, so that discussions can be fertile and give rise to questions that apply to practical diving experience. Academic review sessions are designed to take full advantage of the pre-class study period, and through the mediation of the instructor, are structured to promote topic comprehension rather than the regurgitation of previously outlined material. Courses that do not require pre-class study are faced with a plethora of information to cover thereby curtailing the amount of information that can reasonably be expected of a student to absorb. Conversely, training done almost exclusively by remote learning greatly limits the individual’s ability to link information with practical diving situations.
  4. Confined Water and Open Water Sessions
    Confined water and open water sessions are designed to help students cultivate essential diving skills and to test student knowledge while in a controlled environment. Confined water areas maintain “pool like” conditions; i.e., controlled shallow water conditions not in excess of 30 feet/9 meters. These allow instructors to maintain maximum control over trainees. Acceptable Open Water conditions involve areas that allow instructors reasonable control over students; depths are contingent on specific course requirements. Open water sessions are structured to build upon each other, with each advancing session increasing in complexity and in the problem solving skills it demands. During these sessions, students learn a set of skills by demonstration and practice, and eventually how to apply these to simulated emergencies. Ultimately, students will learn how to solve potential problems and to efficiently manage emergencies on their own.
  5. Testing and Evaluations
    Testing and evaluations are an important part of the ISE training process. ISE requires all students to successfully demonstrate proficiency with 100% of all ISE test questions. All dives are evaluated in the post dive debriefing, where a progress form assesses their individual skill and training progress. Upon completing a course, students are provided a final evaluation form that they complete and review with their instructor. This evaluation provides students with the information necessary to improve on areas of weakness in academic knowledge and personal technique.

    ISE qualification is ultimately an instructor’s decision. However, students are provided with a list of performance objectives that allow them to practice the skills that most directly impact on their ability to qualify for the level of dive training they are pursuing. Using the scale below, students may request their instructor to grade their performance after each in-water training session, and thereafter furnish them with the results of his/her evaluation. At the completion of diver training, the student will be provided with an instructor’s final evaluation.

    The ISE evaluation scale ranges sequentially from 5 (failure) to 1 (excellence):

    Grade One (5): Indicates an unsafe diver in both ability and or demeanor. The student should be removed from the course immediately.

    Grade Two (4): Indicates that the student cannot complete the required skill/task satisfactorily. If, at the discretion of the instructor, continued practice of a skill/task, places either the student or the class at risk, the instructor may decide not to continue practicing a skill/task and fail the student.

    Grade Three (3):Indicates that the student has completed the skill/task satisfactorily (passed) but needs improvement.

    Grade Four (2): Indicates that the student has completed the skill/task well.

    Grade Five (1): Indicates that the student has completed the skill/task extremely well and deserves commendation.

1.3.2 Diver Qualifications

While ISE qualification is ultimately an instructor’s decision. Students that fail the class can come back within a timeframe of 6 month and redo the class or parts of it. They can do so till they pass but not more often than 3 times. There are no class fees to be charged for this beside the actual costs of the instructor.

A "pass" expires after 3 years. To requalify the individual need to enroll in a Requalification session and prove its ability to perform on its level of certification in front of an ISE instructor designated to teach the specific level.

1.3.3 Training Categories

  1. Basics of Exploration Diving
    As the name indicates this class gives an Intro to the world of exploration Diving. Trim and Buoyancy, Propulsion techniques, basic line techniques, additional equipment. Nitrox lectures and basic decompression discussion
  2. Level 1 Exploration Diver
    The class is build around the question of the diver being able to plunge into exploration diving with the demand of solving every potentional stress calm while under water. Using soc. Critical skills in combination with experience dives the class assures that that candidate gets the best possible preparation for his start into the exploration diving topic. The class includes full tmx lectures and decompression techniques incl . 50% Nitrox. Dives are limited to 48 Meters and mixtures with Non hypoxic oxygen content => 21% or higher.
  3. Level 2 Exploration Diver
    A non limit Trimix diving. The class incooperates hypoxic mixtures, the use of a bottom stage and 2 deco mixes. The class can be combined with the scooter class and than allows the use of one DPV in an overhead free environment. Diving is limited to 75 meters and 3 stages. Lectures cover the full helium aspect, advanced decompression and the rescue techniques for such dives. Teamplanning, support and survey techniques for deeper dives
  4. Level 3 Exploration Diver
    This is the highest lever class offered in the industry. A mix gas class with no depth limitations. The class introduces the student to off-limit diving, using 5+ stages, any helium based mixtures, the deco techniques for this kind of diving, the use of scooters, video and survey techniques appropriated for the most aggressive technical exploration diving. This course is designed to produce a competent and skillful technical exploration diver, one who is armed with a complex theoretical understanding of the intricacies of technical exploration diving, as well as the most excellent in-water skills. This is not for everybody!
  5. Level 1 Cave Explorer
    The class is build around the question of the diver being able to plunge into Cave diving with the demand of solving every potentional stress calm while not only under water but also in overhead environment. Using soc. Critical skills in combination with experience dives the class assures that that candidate gets the best possible preparation for his start into cavediving. The class includes full linework and basic survey as well as basic geology and environmental insights. Dives are limited to 30 Meters and Nirtox without Deconpression.
  6. Level 2 Cave Explorer
    The class ventures deeper into cave diving and introduces the diver to more complex navigation, Jumps and Gaps and more advanced survey, Stage diving and Decompression. Diving is limited to 48 meters and 3 stages. Divers have to be Tech 1 certified and the Use of Helium based mixtures with 21% Oxygen or more in combination with 50% Nitrox is permitted.
  7. Level 3 Cave Explorer
    This is the highest lever class offered in the industry. Designed only for few this comprehensive training prepares the student to no limit cave diving introducing him to advanced stage diving and the use of multiple scooters to extent the limits of cave exploration. Tech2 and Scooter certification and a perquisite for this class. The use of any helium based mixture and various deco gases is permitted. Max depth in training is 90 Meters. This is not for everybody!
  8. Level 1 Wreck Explorer
    Entry Level class to establish a solid base of knowledge and skills to safely explore Wrecks. Focus clearly is the new environment – open Ocean and the wreck with its potential Hazzards. Blue water descents and ascents, linework and navigation, simple survey, problems and solutions. Class has a max Depth of 30 meters with Nitrox or Triox if certified. No Penetration beyond Daylight.
  9. Level 2 Wreck Explorer
    This is an advanced class for Tech 1 certified Divers who wish to penetrate deeper into the world of wreckdiving. Wrecks down to 48 Meters with Heiumbased mixtures of 21% or higher with 50% Nitrox. Penetration techniques with a single line, advanced survey and bluewater deco, drifting deco techniques are also taught in this class.
  10. Level 3 Wreck Explorer
    The ultimate wreck training. No limits in gas, penetration or equipment used. This class prepares The student to aggressive deep wreck exploration using Trimix, multiple deco gases, professional survey techniques and state of the art equipment. Max depth in training is 90 meters. This is not for everybody!
  11. PSCR Rebreather Exploration Diver
    This training category is designed for divers seeking training in the use of PSCR style semi-closed circuit technology. ISE rebreather courses provide the trainee with a solid foundation of basic skills on which to build a safe base of experience. The class build upon this foundation and allow divers to safely meet the demands of aggressive and technical environments. The student needs to be Level 2 certified to participate in Rebreather training.

1.3.4 Training Procedures

Below are outlined a core set of standards that uniformly govern all ISE courses and the representatives that are engaged in teaching them. In addition to these, specific categories of training, and specific levels within these categories, are governed by an additional set of standards that are outlined in the relevant course sections. Such common standards ensure that ISE educational courses remain consistent with respect to fundamental skills and basic information, and that each specific training category will build particular skills and knowledge on a common foundation.

  1. An Active Status ISE Instructor, qualified to teach the level of training being conducted, is to be present and in control during any and all activities including academic and in-water activities.
  2. No ISE instructor may conduct critical skill training in an overhead environment during any ISE training course
  3. Experience portions (experience dives) of Recreational, Technical, or Rebreather classes may be taught in the overhead environment provided that the following requirements are met:
    • Dives involving technical skills, e.g., oxygen/nitrox use, require that instructors maintain at least a ISE Level 2 rating.
    • Students engaged in experience dives must be qualified in the skill or environment of the diving undertaken.
  4. The required minimum number of dives for one level of training must be completed before proceeding to the next level of training for that environment. Dives that fulfill the requirements of one level of training may not be credited toward any other level; also dives from one course cannot be credited towards fulfilling the required dives of another course. Students may also not take two courses concurrently (at the same time).
  5. Students must receive Full Qualification for a level of training before proceeding to the next level of training.
  6. Instructors conducting a particular course are required to use the minimum equipment required of that course.
  7. All decompression and/or stage cylinders are to be clearly labeled with the MOD
  8. Visibility is defined as the minimum distance in which divers can identify one another and communicate effectively using hand and light signals.
  9. ISE instructors should refrain from conducting training dives and drills in areas that contain:
    • Delicate or sensitive formations
    • Structures that are in relatively pristine condition,
    • Sensitive biological or archeological resources.
  10. ISE instructors should consider the impact of training on the site that they select, choosing sites appropriate to the current student skill and training level. Instructors should refer to the recommended locations for certain training drills (Section 1.4), and are encouraged to seek the advice of local divers and instructors when conducting training in an area with which they are not familiar.

1.4 General Training Limits

The following limits apply to ALL levels of training (course specific limits can be found in the relevant sections):

1.4.1 PO2 Limits

All dives are to maintain a working PO2 of no greater than 1.2 at the bottom of all decompression dives, 1.4 at all dives with nor deco obligation and a resting PO2 of 1.6 +/- .05. Resting dives are defined as dives during which it is not reasonably expected that a diver will have to expend any unusual amount of energy, for example during decompression.

1.4.2 END Limits

No dives are to exceed an Equivalent Narcotic Depth (END) of 30 meters

1.4.3 Procedures for Critical Skills

Drills or skills that involve loss of visibility, loss of lights, simulated manifold failures (“air gunning”), rescue techniques involving, assisting panic-stricken divers, convulsing divers and unconscious divers must first be conducted in a confined water setting, after which an instructor can progressively increase the depth and/or penetration. Mask removal and left post roll offs are restricted to confined water.

Under no circumstance should simulated air failures involve the shutting down of the right post primary regulator.

1.4.4 Dual Qualification

Another agency’s qualifications may be awarded a student—as a dual qualification—only if the student has met ISE standards and has been awarded Full ISE Qualification. The student can then receive both a ISE qualification card and the equivalent qualification of another agency.

1.4.5 Issuing Qualification Under Other Agencies

Qualification from another agency may not be issued instead of a ISE qualification. This entails that qualification from another agency may not be issued in the event the student did not complete ISE Full qualification, nor can it be issued if the student was given a provisional ISE qualification.

1.4.6 Teaching and Rebreathers

ISE Instructors may not teach ISE courses while using any type of rebreather (CCR or SCR). The only exceptions include the training of rebreather instructors during an ITC, or training during rebreather courses after all critical skill testing is complete.

1.4.7 Steel Cylinders

Use of heavy double steel tanks/cylinders in the open water is prohibited for ISE members unless divers concurrently wear dry suits as redundant sources of inflation.

1.4.8 Steel Stage Bottles

No ISE member should utilize steel stage bottles in the open water. Any legal restrictions in conflict with this stipulation must be discussed with and approved by the Training Director.

1.5 General Diving Skills

The following Diving Skills are required in ALL ISE courses, with an evaluation Grade of Three (3) (satisfactory) or better (Any additional and/or course specific diving skills, as well as any deviation from a particular diving skill will be listed under the appropriate section for the specific course):

  1. Demonstrate proficiency in safe diving techniques; this would include pre-dive preparations, in-water activity and post-dive assessment.
  2. Demonstrate awareness of team member location and a concern for safety, responding quickly to visual cues and dive partner needs.
  3. Efficiently and comfortably demonstrate how to donate air to an out of air diver in multiple air-sharing episodes with one or more experiences to include a distance of at least 30 feet/9 meters.
  4. Demonstrate a comfortable demeanor while swimming for at least 100 feet/30 meters without a mask while air-sharing.
  5. Be able to comfortably demonstrate at least two propulsion techniques that would be appropriate in delicate and/or silty environments.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge of dive rescue techniques, including effective management of the following situations: assisting a panic-stricken diver, a convulsing diver and an unconscious diver.
  7. Demonstrate the efficient deployment of a reserve light following a primary light failure.
  8. Demonstrate a safe and responsible demeanor throughout all training.

All ISE instructors are encouraged to exceed minimum training standards when by doing so they are promoting the best interests of the student. Instructors are actively encouraged to deny qualification to students when students have not met the standards of the certification level they are pursuing to the satisfaction of the instructor.

1.6 General Prerequisites for All ISE Courses

The following are Course Prerequisites for all ISE Courses (Any additional and/or course specific course prerequisite, as well as any deviations from the following, will be listed under the appropriate section of the specific course):

  1. Must have a completed application packet on file, including medical information, release forms and dive history.
  2. Must submit a diving resume to headquarters via electronic or land mail.
  3. Must be physically fit, mentally stable and clearly focused.
  4. Must hold DAN Master level insurance or equivalent.
  5. Must be a nonsmoker. (Exept Basics of Exploration and Workshops)
  6. Must obtain an authorization for the use of prescription drugs by a physician and must have such authorization approved by a ISE representative prior to the onset of diver training.
  7. All ISE trained divers who become ISE Members are invited to Join the ISE Mailing list moderated by the ISE training curriculum to give support in any diving related questions.

1.7 Cylinder Marking Standards

  1. All Dive Cylinders should be free from unnecessary stickers and markings, which only serve to confuse divers. The cylinders should have a current Visual Inspection and Hydro test as detailed by the current country specific regulations.
  2. All stage/decompression cylinders are to be marked with MAXIMUM OPERATING DEPTH (MOD) in approximately 8 centimeter numbers near the bottom of the cylinder and in small (2cm) numbers around the neck in the 12/3/6/9 ó clock position
  3. In countries were the metric system is widely adopted, this depth is to be in METERS, e.g. a decompression cylinder containing Nitrox with a 50 % Oxygen content will be marked 21 to indicate the maximum depth of twenty one meters.
  4. In countries were the imperial system is the norm, the cylinder marking will be in FEET e.g. a decompression cylinder containing Nitrox with a 50 % Oxygen content will be marked 70 to indicate the maximum depth of seventy feet.
  5. In all countries, in addition to the MOD, Oxygen cylinders are to be marked horizontally down the cylinder with the word “OXYGEN,” in approximately 3 inch/7.5 centimeter high letters. No additional Nitrox stickers or indication that the cylinder does not contain air are required.
  6. Gas percentages should not be placed on the cylinder for identification purposes, as they require divers to make underwater calculations. However, in conjunction with MOD marking, content information can be used to aid in handling cylinders on the surface. The result of analysis, to the decimal point, should be placed near the neck of the cylinder and should include the date analyzed and the tester’s initials.

1.8 Quality Assurance

The ISE quality assurance program seeks to ensure that ISE courses, instructors and members maintain the highest standards possible, before, during and after training. The ISE quality assurance program includes: Instructor Evaluations, Instructor Performance reviews, Instructor and Diver Membership Renewals, Instructor and Diver Re-qualification, rigorous instructor and diver pre-qualifications, robust instructor and diver training, post-training reviews for instructors and students and ISE Member and Student Review Procedures.

1.8.1 Instructor Evaluations

At the outset of every class ISE students are provided with links to a ISE instructor evaluation form and are asked to fill this out immediately following the completion of their training, regardless of whether they pass or not. This form serves two functions: 1) it enables students to evaluate their training experience and 2) it enables ISE to monitor instructional quality

1.8.2 Instructors Performance Reviews

Instructor performance is regularly reviewed on the basis of a) instructor evaluation forms and b) a peer review program that encourages instructor cooperation and requires them to report any practices not in keeping with ISE’s standards to ISE headquarters.

1.8.3 Instructor and Diver Membership Renewals

To maintain currency in all facets of diving theory and practice, ISE instructors are required to renew their ISE Memberships annually. ISE divers are also strongly encouraged to do so as well. Membership in ISE will be granted on the condition that no outstanding claims or grievances exist against either an instructor or a diver.

1.8.4 Instructor Re-Qualification

All instructors must be formally re-qualified every three years. An instructor can be re-qualified by participating in either a ISE ITC or co-teach with an ISE IT. Instructors whose three-year tenure has expired, and who do not wish to renew their qualification, will be put on inactive status and be required to return their instructor cards to ISE headquarters at once.

1.8.5 ISE Certified Diver Re-Qualification

All ISE diver certification cards expire three (3) years after the date of issue. Divers have to go thru a Requalification process to maintain their certification level.

1.9 Complaints

InnerSpace Explorers is committed to being an organization of the highest caliber, and to having representatives of the highest quality. To that end, complaints will be handled promptly and thoroughly.
All complaints will be handled by ISE’s Quality Control Board. Following its investigation of a complaint, and in the event disciplinary action is warranted, said Board will forward all its findings along with its recommendation to ISE’s BOD for final judgment.

To submit a complaint against a ISE Representative:

Submit a written statement, outlining the nature of the complaint, to the Director of Quality Control at ISE Headquarters (qc@is-expl.com). This should include:

  1. Name and contact information
  2. The date, time and location of incident
  3. A complete account of the event, including names and contact information (if possible) of any witnesses

Complaints can be lodged by mail, or electronically. If the complaint is lodged by mail, relevant information should be sent to The Director of Quality Control, InnerSpace Explorers: Freidankstr. 3a, 81739 München, Germany If it is lodged electronically, email with relevant information should be send to qc@is-expl.com.

Complaints will only be recognized if they are accompanied by the relevant information outlined above.

No action, other than review, can be taken as a result of an anonymous communication

1.9.2 Complaint Procedure

  1. Following review of a complaint, a written summary of the complaint will be sent to the charged member by certified mail. Upon receipt, the charged member(s) must respond in writing to the substance of the complaint within 30 days.
  2. If, in the event, the charged member fails to respond to the written complaint, a notice shall be sent to the member informing him or her that they are suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
  3. Upon receiving a response from the charged member, the Quality Control Committee may decide to dismiss the complaint, resolve the matter by negotiation, or immediately suspend the member in question. Within five (5) days of being rendered, this decision is subject to confirmation by ISE’s Board of Directors, and may remain in effect until the complaint is resolved or a formal hearing held and a decision rendered.
  4. For complaints of an especially egregious nature, the Quality Control Board will conduct an investigation into the nature of the complaint for a period not longer than 90 days and, based upon its findings, decide whether to recommend a formal hearing of the matter before the Board of Directors. In such an event, the Board of Directors may resolve the matter either by negotiations with the member, by enforcing sanctions or by dismissing the member.

1.10 Conduct Policies and Procedures

  1. ISE Members and Instructors must demonstrate financial responsibility when transacting business with ISE.c
  2. ISE Instructors must process student Certification forms in a reasonable and timely fashion. ISE instructors must cooperate with ISE Headquarters when certification card issues arise.
  3. All correspondence within ISE is to be confidential and private. This privacy is necessary to allow for freedom of expression between instructors. Any instructor who knowingly allows these discussions to become public may be subject to disciplinary action as outlined in Section 1.9.
  4. All ISE instructors will maintain an appropriate Professional Attitude during any ISE sanctioned activity.
  5. All ISE Members and Instructors are bound by the Standards and Procedures outlined in this document.

1.11 Records

ISE headquarters will maintain the following records (if applicable) for each instructor, student, and class for up to 7 years after the class:

  1. Student Registration
  2. Student Medical Questionnaire
  3. Accident Report
  4. Instructor Registration
  5. Course Completion Form
  6. C-Card Replacement Form
  7. Instructor Evaluation Form
  8. Membership Registration