This organizational structure goes back to the model developed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the early 1950s.
Committee of Public Safety | Chief Executive Officer | chief executive officer | Chief executive officer | General officer | National Transportation Safety Board | Scuba diving | safety | Occupational Safety and Health Administration | diving | Commanding Officer | police officer | Diving | non-commissioned officer | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | Chief Operating Officer | Chief operating officer | general officer | Committee of Safety | Chief Financial Officer | Officer Candidate School | High Diving Hare | Foreign Service Officer | Professional diving | Occupational safety and health | Non-commissioned officer | National Safety Council | Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy | European Food Safety Authority |
In 1985 Dick Rutkowski, a former NOAA diving safety officer, formed IAND (International Association of Nitrox Divers) and began teaching nitrox use for recreational diving.