Policies Applying to Specialty Diver Courses
OVERVIEW
NAUI Specialty Diver Courses are either introductions to or
are more detailed treatments of the respective areas of specialized
diving. Accordingly, some specialty courses are designed to provide
more detailed training and result in additional qualifications.
In these instances the qualifications are described in the respective
specialty course standard. They provide divers the opportunity
to enjoy organized diving which yields experience and documents
training in specialized diving activities.
Instructors with expertise in specific areas can design their
own specialty course with an Instructor-Specified program. Instructors
who wish to present expanded specialty courses that produce divers
with a finished degree of competence in a specific area can seek
authorization for a specifically designated “Master or Full...”
Instructor-Specified program.
QUALIFICATION OF GRADUATES
Graduates of a specialty course are considered competent to
participate in the respective specialty activities without supervision,
provided the activities engaged in and the areas dived approximate
those in which the diver was trained.
GENERAL PREREQUISITES
- Screening. In a pre-course session using selected
skills, the instructor is to screen and evaluate all students
to ensure that they possess the necessary diving skills to minimize
risk. Also the instructor is to verify that the student has the
prerequisite diver certification. Specialty courses with prerequisite
certifications that are higher than Scuba Diver are listed in
the respective course standard.
- Equipment. Students shall furnish and be responsible
for the care and maintenance of their own diving equipment. The
instructor shall initially assist the student in checking all
student gear to ensure it is adequate and in proper working order.
- Open Water Dives. Required open water dives
dedicated to the specialty activity vary for each course. One
open water dive (which does not count toward the minimum number
of dives required for a given course) is to be used as a screening
and evaluation dive to determine the readiness of the students
to perform the skills and activities appropriate for the particular
specialty. This is not required when the students’ diving
proficiencies are well known to the instructor. Some courses,
because of the complexity of the training or the skills involved,
have a higher minimum number of dives designated.
SKILL AND ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
- The desired learning outcome for each specialty course is
essentially the same - the ability of the diver to demonstrate
that the necessary skills and knowledge have been acquired needed
to minimize risks and continue learning and gaining experience
in the particular activity.
- The specific skill requirements, academic topics, learning
objectives, and curricula for each course shall be tailored to
achieve and document this outcome. Written exams shall be used
to document knowledge in relevant subject areas. (See “Policies
Applying to All Courses; Evaluation and Documentation.”)
Policies Applying to all NAUI Programs
GENERAL
- Age. The minimum age for each program is to
be reached by the water phase, unless otherwise specified. Registration.
In some programs participants must be registered with NAUI Headquarters
in order to receive credentials. Details are provided in program
descriptions as appropriate. Waivers. See “Policies Applying
to All NAUI Certification Courses.”
- Content. Exact content and length of programs
are to be keyed to program requirements, participant needs and
local environments. Providers should use time as necessary to
assure that a particular program meets or exceeds expectations.
- Supplemental Material. Programs are to expose
participants to current knowledge. Outlines and textbooks available
through NAUI or comparable materials are to be used as guides.
Additional handouts, training aids, supplementary texts and similar
materials may be used as deemed appropriate.
- Monitoring. Programs will be monitored by NAUI
Headquarters to aid standards compliance and quality assurance.
FORMS, RECORDS AND REPORTS
- Releases. No program provider shall allow participation
by a minor without having first secured a release signed by parent(s)
and/or legal guardian(s).
- Log Book Entries. A record of participation
is to be kept through appropriate entries in each participant‘s
training/diving log book. Entries are to be authenticated by
the provider’s signature, stamp or seal.
OPEN WATER DIVES
- Required open water dives dedicated to the specialty activity
vary for each course. One open water dive (which does not count
toward the minimum number of dives required for a given course)
is to be used as a screening and evaluation dive to determine
the readiness of the students to perform the skills and activities
appropriate for the particular specialty. This is not required
when the students’ diving proficiencies are well known to
the instructor. Some courses, because of the complexity of the
training or the skills involved, have a higher minimum number
of dives designated.
Entry Scuba Experience (ESE) / Passport Diver Program (PDP)
OVERVIEW
This is an introductory, non-certification program suitable
for two purposes:
- to introduce non-divers to scuba diving. Participants may
scuba dive in confined or open water under closely controlled
conditions.
- to provide sufficient training to enable graduates of the
full program to continue to scuba dive under controlled conditions
without meeting the requirement of scuba certification.
The instructor may elect to offer all or any portion of the
program. Similarly, the participant may elect to take all or
any portion of the program as offered. At any point, the program
may be converted to the Scuba Diver Course. Within time limits,
credit for program training may be given persons who complete
it and subsequently enroll in a NAUI Scuba Diver Course.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
- Continued Diving. Passport holders may scuba
dive in open water under the direct supervision of active-status
NAUI leaders with the following restriction: Program knowledge
and waterskills of Passport holders who have not made Passport
supervised dives within the previous six months are to be evaluated
in confined water by an active-status NAUI Instructor and any
refresher training needed is to be successfully completed before
the Passport holders are taken into open water.
- Training Credit. Passport holders are eligible for
Scuba Diver course credit provided they have successfully completed
the PDP in the previous six months or can submit proof of additional
supervised Passport dives in the previous six months.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age: Minimum age of 12
- Certification: None Required
Night Diver
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge
needed to minimize the risks of diving at night. (May be for
skin or scuba divers.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include planning and preparation, night diving
equipment, procedures, problems, hazards, navigation and buddy
system techniques.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Underwater Environment
OVERVIEW
This course is to expose the diver to the physical and biological
aspects of the diving environment with emphasis on the local
area. This course will draw much of the subject material from
related sciences, e.g., oceanography, limnology, geology, biology
and ecology. The use of movies, slides and handouts are an important
part of this course. Trips to aquariums and oceanariums will
be most helpful. Effort should be made to expose the student
divers to several diving environments, e.g., lake vs. ocean,
rocky reef vs. sand beach. (May be for skin or scuba divers.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Subjects to be covered are as follows:
- Plant and animal life - identification, relationships,
dangers, regulations, uses - food collections and aquaria.
- Conservation and pollution - problem areas
and possible solutions.
- Water movement and characteristics - tides,
currents, waves and surf, temperature, pressure, density, buoyancy,
visibility and sound.
- Shore, bottom and surface conditions - features,
hazards, natural aids to navigation and wind effects.
- Diving locations - sources of information,
use of charts, arranging and planning of dives.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Underwater Hunter and Collector
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge
necessary to spearfish, take game and collect specimens while
minimizing the diving risks of such activities. (May be for
skin or scuba divers.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include skin diving techniques, hazards and
cautions, safety concerns, equipment, conservation, fishing laws
and regulations, sportsmanship, specific techniques, utilizing
the catch, selecting specimens, preservation, shell collecting,
aquaria and diving locations. Conservation material from the
Underwater Environment course is also to be included.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Search and Recovery Diver
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge
to do those underwater tasks commonly needed by the experienced
recreational diver and to minimize the risks of such tasks.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Specific subject areas to be covered are as follows:
- Underwater navigation – provides the diver
with the skills needed to use a compass and natural aids for
orientation, in order to establish position, get about and find
particular locations while submerged. The theory, problems, methods,
equipment, distance/time relationships and use of charts are
to be included.
- Limited visibility diving - prepares the diver
with the skills and knowledge needed to function and minimize
the risk of diving in turbid water and at night. The problems,
methods, equipment, hazards and cautions, plus safety procedures
are to be included.
- Search methods - provide the diver with the
background to understand and select a search pattern and then
perform a search using proper techniques. The problems, methods,
procedures and equipment are to be included.
- Light salvage or recovery - prepares the diver
to handle the recovery of small to intermediate-size objects
with limited equipment. The theory, problems, hazards, methods,
equipment and principles involved are to be covered. The necessary
rigging and knot tying are also to be included.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years.
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Underwater Photographer
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge
to enjoy underwater photography while minimizing the risks of
such activities. This is a course of underwater photography techniques,
not lab techniques.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
- Coverage is to include underwater photographic equipment,
films, photo techniques, lighting techniques, fundamentals of
photography, underwater camera techniques and underwater photo
problems.
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Divers are to actually take underwater photographs and have
the results reviewed and critiqued. Activities of other diving
courses may be used to provide photographic opportunities.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Underwater Archeologist
OVERVIEW
This course introduces students to basic information and skills
that are used in underwater archaeological interpretation of
wreck and other sites, as well as mapping, sketching, and researching.
Qualified divers are essential to collect and record archaeological
data on submerged cultural resources and often perform invaluable
volunteer assistance to accredited Archaeologists by assisting
during field work. You will obtain specific skills and knowledge
that are helpful for wreck diving activities, and provide increased
enjoyment when visiting submerged cultural resources.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Underwater Ecologist
OVERVIEW
For years, divers have been becoming more environmentally
aware of their surroundings, both as sight-seers and underwater
photographers. There is a tremendous diversity of people interested
in scuba diving and the ecology of two major oceanic environments,
the Kelp Forests and the Coral Reefs.
As we promote sound environmental diving techniques to help protect
the planet's ecosystems, we must also learn how to better interface
with the delicate kelp and coral environments. Through the NAUI
Underwater Ecologist courses, you will learn more about our favorite
diving environments.
Underwater Ecologist: Kelp Forest
The NAUI Underwater Ecologist: Kelp Forest specialty course
focuses on the complex and productive ecosystem bordering much
of the west coast of North America, from Alaska to Baja California.
Kelp forests are also found in other cooler coastal waters of
South America, Tasmania, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia,
and many other locations. This course examines the kelp forests,
their occupants such as mollusks, crustaceans, fish and marine
mammals.
Underwater Ecologist: Coral Reef
Coral reefs are found in three major biogeographic regions
of the world. The tropical western Atlantic (Caribbean), the
Read Sea, and the Indo-Pacific region. Coral colonies are composed
of thousands of tiny polyps, each with its own protective skeleton.
The NAUI Underwater Ecologist: Coral Reef specialty course focuses
on the vertebrates and invertebrates of the complex living reef.
This course examines coral zonation, seagrass beds, lagoons,
mangroves, and the common reef algae, invertebrates and reef
fishes.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Scuba Rescue Diver
OVERVIEW
This course trains divers in the knowledge and skills needed
to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water problems
and diving emergencies. Included are: assists, transports, surface
rescues and rescues from depth involving both boat and shore
based skin and scuba divers. The course meets the prerequisite
rescue training for Skin Diving Instructor, NAUI Assistant Instructor,
Divemaster, and Instructor certifications. Note: Adult CPR training
(approximately four hours) meets the requirement for Scuba Rescue
Diver certification. However, additional CPR training that includes
two person CPR and the use of rescue breathing barrier devices,
e.g. pocket mask®, face shield, is required to meet the requirements
for NAUI leadership certification.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
- Graduates are considered competent to perform assists and
rescues in open water provided the diving site and diving situations
approximate those of the course.
- Graduates may use this certification as a prerequisite for
the NAUI Training Assistant Specialty Course, Leadership Courses
and Instructor Courses.
FIRST AID AND CPR TRAINING
- First Aid and CPR instructors who present training in these
respective skill areas during this course need not be NAUI Instructors.
COURSE PREREQUISITES
- Age: Minimum is 15 years.
- Certification: Training and experience equivalent
to NAUI Scuba Diver.
- CPR & First Aid Certification: If accredited
First Aid and CPR certification are not offered as part of the
course, current certification in both is required for certification.
- Open Water. A least one session is to be conducted in open
water. An open water session involves one or more skin or scuba
rescue exercises.
Advanced Scuba Rescue Diver
OVERVIEW
This is a certification course for certified scuba divers
who desire to assume greater rescue capabilities during diving
activities. The training emphasizes accident supervision and
management with practical applications in open water. This course
is designed specifically to provide the knowledge and skills
necessary to:
- Help prevent diving accidents.
- Recognize life-threatening diving situations.
- Correctly initiate and/or supervise rescue/assist procedures.
- Effectively perform in-water rescue/assist techniques and
procedures.
- Correctly manage rescue assistants during and after rescues.
- Provide immediate, effective post-rescue aid. Correctly manage
a diving emergency with adjustments for local variants.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
For a period of three years after the course, graduates are
considered competent to perform assists and rescues in aquatic
situations so long as the situation approximates one for which
they have been trained. After renewal of certification, the individual
will again be considered competent.
RENEWAL OF CERTIFICATION
For renewal of certification, an individual with current First
Aid and CPR certifications must correctly demonstrate to an active-status
NAUI Instructor the open water skills contained within these
standards.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum age is 17 years.
- Diver Certification. Minimum is NAUI Advanced
Scuba Diver or equivalent.
- CPR & First Aid Certification. Current
certification in CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and First
Aid by a NAUI recognized agency. Training shall include: one
rescuer adult CPR, infant/child CPR, two rescuer CPR, and rescue
mask - barrier device use. (Certification as a water safety
instructor and in lifeguarding is strongly recommended.)
- Oxygen Training. Proof of oxygen administration
training within the past two years is required unless oxygen
administration is offered as part of the course. Oxygen administration
training must include the assembly, use, and basic maintenance
of constant flow and demand valve oxygen delivery systems.
- Diving Skills. Participants must comfortably
perform the following skills prior to beginning training. Time
involved for performing the skills is in addition to the estimated
course hours. The instructor is to use these skills as screening
evaluation criteria:
- Swimming skills (no equipment)
–Swim 225 yard (207 m) nonstop, any stroke, in six minutes
or less.
–Survival swim for 15 minutes.
–Recover 10 pounds (4.5 kg) from about 10 feet (3 m) of
water.
–Transport another person of equal size 25 yards (22.9 m).
- Skin diving skills as required for the NAUI Scuba Diver
Course.
- Scuba skills (scuba equipment)
–Assemble equipment, make adjustments, don equipment, and
perform pre-dive equipment inspections.
–In turn, at the surface remove and replace mask, snorkel,
fins, weight belt and scuba unit.
–In turn, underwater remove, replace and clear mask and
regulator, comfortably breathe from a regulator without wearing
a mask for two minutes, buddy breathe, and share air using and
alternate air source.
–Demonstrate surface use of the BC and the ability to hover
underwater.
–Perform a Scuba Lifesaving Transport (see “Details
of Selected Skills”) of another scuba diver 100 yards (91
m) within four minutes.
Training Assistant
OVERVIEW
This course is to qualify the diver in the skills and knowledge
necessary to perform as a training assistant during diver training
sessions. The key objective is to train divers to assist others
during training activities overseen by an active-status NAUI
Instructor. This course is to enhance the diver’s general
skills and abilities and is not a substitute for specific NAUI
courses which create NAUI leadership members. Although this course
results in certification as a Training Assistant it does not
confer any NAUI Leadership certification nor does it qualify
the graduate to apply for or receive the benefits of NAUI membership.
Consequently, this certification does not allow the graduate
to be counted toward student instructor ratios.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
Certified training assistants are qualified to perform the
tasks of:
- Temporarily directly supervise remaining students while an
instructor conducts a skill with other students.
- Escorting no more than two diving students on the surface
and on underwater tours.
- Assisting an active-status NAUI Instructor with other tasks
which enhance the safety of students or improve the efficiency
of diver training so long as the assistant is under the direction
of the instructor and no other standards are violated.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age: Minimum of 18 years.
- Certification: Training and experience equivalent
to at least NAUI Advanced Diver.
- Rescue Certification: Certification in NAUI
Scuba Rescue Diver or equivalent.
- CPR & First Aid Certification: Current
certification in First Aid and CPR. Note: Adult CPR training
(approximately four hours) meets the requirement for Training
Assistant certification. However, additional CPR training that
includes two-person CPR and the use of rescue breathing barrier
devices, e.g. pocket mask®, face shield, is required to meet
the requirements for NAUI leadership certification.
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Compass navigate:
– a reciprocal course to within 10 feet (3 m) of origin
without using visual references
– a square pattern to within 10 feet (3 m) of origin. Distances
shall be as great as appropriate for environmental conditions.
- Assist divers simulating each of: a muscle cramp, anxiety,
a breathing difficulty and signs of pre-panic.
- Assist/ escort each of: a tired diver, and an incapacitated
diver to safety.
- Be in charge of and satisfactorily act as an escort during
an open water dive for two other divers.
- Demonstrate a satisfactory scuba diver rescue. (See “Details
of Selected Skills”.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
- Review of rescue techniques with emphasis on local conditions
including problems, possible situations, search techniques, rescues,
assists, tows, carries and in-water rescue breathing. Emergency
management procedures as applied to divers in open water training
in the applicable area. Deployment and use of emergency oxygen
first aid. (Certification as an “oxygen provider” is
recommended.) Review of first aid as related to diving in particular.
- Underwater communications techniques to be used by instructors
and assistants. The deployment of dive area designators as appropriate
for the area. Open water diving procedures and group control.
The specifics of arranging and planning for a training dive.
Techniques of escorting students on the surface and during underwater
tours and during navigation exercises. Safety oriented boat operation
and boat diving where appropriate to the area.
- The roles and responsibilities of the “training assistant”
and the legal aspects of diver training. The use of briefings,
divemaster logs and diver inventory techniques.
Wreck Diver (External Survey)
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge
needed to gain experience and minimize risks in wreck diving.
Wreck diving (external survey) is defined as diving around a
sunken vessel, aircraft or debris field.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include safety, hazards and cautions, special
risks of overhead environments, entanglement, limited visibility,
deep diving, equipment (additions and modifications), location
of wrecks, sources of information, search methods, underwater
navigation, legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology
and appropriate material from other specialty courses. If altitude
diving is involved, altitude procedures and flying after diving
shall be covered.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 18 years.
- Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Wreck Diver (Penetration)
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge
needed to gain experience and minimize risks in wreck diving.
Wreck diving (penetration) is defined as diving inside a sunken
vessel, aircraft or similar structure.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include safety, hazards and cautions, special
risks of overhead environments, gas management, entanglement,
limited visibility, deep diving, equipment (additions and modifications),
location of wrecks, sources of information, search methods, underwater
navigation, legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology
and appropriate material from other specialty courses. If altitude
diving is involved, altitude procedures and flying after diving
shall be covered.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 18 years.
- Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. NAUI Wreck Diver (External Survey)
certification or the equivalent is required. The instructor is
to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any
open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations
to do so.
Dry Suit Diver
OVERVIEW
Dry suit diving has become increasingly popular in recent
years. While dry suits were once used almost exclusively for
situations such as ice diving or deep wreck diving, many sport
divers are now using dry suits regularly for every day sport
dives all over the world. Material technology, valve design,
and zipper reliability have all improved to a point where dry
suits deliver greater value per dollar for cold and temperate
water diving. This course is to provide the diver with a basic
understanding of the knowledge and skills needed to minimize
risks and gain experience in dry suit diving. It will train scuba
divers to properly use and maintain dry suits. By learning proper
dry suit use and maintenance, you will extend your opportunities
for diving to year-round.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification
for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required unless combined with the Scuba
Diver course. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge
and capability before any open water training and shall use skill
or other evaluations to do so.
Ice Diver
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with a basic understanding
of the knowledge and skills needed to minimize risks and gain
experience in ice diving. Ice diving is defined as a penetration
under solid ice.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include fresh water diving, purpose, planning,
organization, operation, procedures, problems, special risks
of overhead environments, gas management, personnel, visibility,
equipment (additions and modifications), first aid for hypothermia
and frostbite, techniques, surface support, communications, hazards
and cautions, lost diver, emergency procedures, plus search and
rescue and limited visibility diving and if appropriate, altitude
diving procedures.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 18 years.
- Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Deep Diver
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the knowledge and
skills to plan and make deep dives while minimizing risks and
avoiding the need for stage decompression. Deep diving is defined
as dives made between 60 (18 m) and 130 feet (40 m). Training
dives are not to be conducted beyond 130 feet (40 m).
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include purpose, problems, hazards, planning,
preparation, equipment (additions and modifications), air supplies,
personnel, techniques, gas management, emergency procedures (including
location and transportation to a hyperbaric chamber) and depth
limits for recreational diving. Decompression procedures are
to include nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness (definition,
cause, symptoms, signs, first aid and prevention) history of
decompression, concepts, use of dive computers, definition of
terms, problems, principles and techniques. Complete coverage
of Repetitive Dive Tables, work sheets, problem solutions, exceptions
and dive planning are also to be included. Altitude diving, flying
after diving and hyperbaric chamber access and operation shall
be included, as well as other short- and long-term deep diving
hazards.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 18 years.
- Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Cavern Diver
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the fundamental skills
and knowledge for cavern diving, and describes the dangers involved
with cave diving. The course is to conform to the standards of
the Cave Diving Section of the National Speleological Society
and/or the National Association for Cave Diving or other NAUI
recognized training standard.
WHO MAY TEACH
In order to be authorized to teach this course NAUI Instructors
must qualify as instructors according to the standards of the
Cave Diving Section of the National Speleological Society and/or
the National Association for Cave Diving or other NAUI recognized
organization with equivalent standards, that trains and qualifies
instructors to teach in overhead environments.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 18 years.
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Cave Diver
OVERVIEW
This course extends the material presented in the Cavern Diving
Course, and is to provide the diver with a basic understanding
of the knowledge and skills required to minimize risks and gain
experience in cave diving. The course is to conform to the standards
of the National Speleological Society and/or the National Association
for Cave Diving or other NAUI recognized training standard.
WHO MAY TEACH
In order to be authorized to teach this course NAUI Instructors
must qualify as instructors according to the standards of the
Cave Diving Section of the National Speleological Society and/or
the National Association for Cave Diving or other NAUI recognized
organization with equivalent standards, that trains and qualifies
instructors to teach in over-head environments.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 18 years.
- Certification: NAUI Cavern Diver certification
or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate
student knowledge and capability before any open water training
and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Diver
OVERVIEW
This is course is to provide the diver with the information
necessary to utilize EANx as a breathing medium. The course may
be taught as a stand-alone specialty course to certified divers
or the knowledge and skills training may be integrated into the
NAUI Scuba Diver course.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered
competent to utilize EANx in open water diving activities without
direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas
dived approximate those of training.
COURSE POLICIES
- Dives shall not exceed a depth of 130 fsw (40 msw) or 1.6
atm PO2 , whichever is less. No planned dives requiring actual
decompression stops on the appropriate EANx tables are to be
permitted. (Maximum PO2 of 1.4 is to be taught with 1.5-1.6
as contingencies.)
- This course may be taught as a NAUI Recognition Program if
the open water training dives are not included. Recognition may
be upgraded to EANx Diver certification upon completion (within
six months) of the required dives under supervision of a NAUI
EANx Instructor.
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
At least two dives are to made using EANx, one of which is
to be a repetitive dive. The student is to analyze his or her
own breathing mixture and to plan and safely execute each dive.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
The following topics are to be covered: history of nitrox
as a breathing gas; Dalton’s law of partial pressures; physiology
of oxygen and nitrogen; depth limits, advantages, disadvantages
and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and precautions
of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use
of EANx with Standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures;
and gas analyzing procedures.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum is 15 years.
- Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification
or the equivalent is required unless combined with the Scuba
Diver course. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge
and capability before any open water training and shall use skill
or other evaluations to do so.
More...
Although theses are some of the more popular NAUI Specialty
and Recognition Training courses, we also offer several Technical
Diver courses, as well as a number of other recognition and
specialty courses. These courses are created by the individual
instructors and approved by NAUI Worldwide's Training Department.
Please check with your local NAUI
Affiliated Dive Centers and NAUI Instructors to determine
what they offer.
Some of these include, but are not limited to:
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- Recreational Hookah Diver
- Advanced Skindiver
- Equipment Repair & Maintenance
- Computer Assisted Diving
- Industrial Orientation
- River Diver
- Underwater Modeling
- Diving Accident Assessment
- Helicopter Emergency Extraction Device
- Field Neurological Exam
- Manatee Experience
- Stingray Experience
- Oxygen Administration
- Public Safety Diver
- Rapid Deployment Search & Recovery
- Search and Rescue/Recovery
- High Altitude Diver
- Blackwater Rescue
- Kayak Diver
- Fish Identification
- Boat Diver
- Marine Naturalist
- Shark Ecology
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