NAUI Advanced Scuba Rescue
This article summarizes the necessity of good, in-depth scuba rescue training. All agencies offer this level training although the NAUI course focuses on scenarios in addition to skills, real world experience.
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Minimum Age for Scuba Diver Certification with NAUI
Minimum Age for Scuba Diver Certification with NAUI I am often asked (again just today) “How old does my child need to be to dive?”. NAUI has a minimum age requirement for open water scuba diver, it is 15 years. Dean with his son Drew NAUI does have a Junior certification for ages 12 – 14 years. Some courses (open water) allow a conditional Junior Certification. This Junior certification can be issued to persons age 12 – 14 years. Junior Certification carries several restrictions. * The parent or guardian and Junior diver agree that the Junior diver will dive with a certified adult (18 years of age) diver of the parent’s or guardian selection. * The parent or guardian and Junior diver agree that the Junior diver will limit diving depth to 60 feet or less. * By signing the Junior certification card, the parent or guardian agrees to be [...]
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The NAUI Requirement for Underwater Swim (and How To Do It)
NAUI requires all open water scuba divers to perform a 50 feet (16.67 yards) underwater swim on one breath with no push off from the wall.¹ NAUI also requires skin diver instructor candidates toperform a 25 yard swim underwater on one breath with no dive or push off from the wall.² As a NAUI instructor you have the leeway to enhance courses you teach. Where I teach at Scuba Steve’s Aquatic Adventures ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=121881663788) we also require the Divemaster candidates (who are striving for the highest NAUI leadership-level certification below Instructor) to perform a 25 yard swim underwater on one breath with no dive or push off from the wall. So why is it important to be able to swim underwater while holding your breath? I think we all can think of several reasons. Some of them would include comfort underwater without scuba, more comfort when skin diving and while [...]
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The NAUI System and becoming a NAUI Instructor
NAUI is the acronym for the National Association of Underwater Instructors. It was founded in 1960 and is one of the oldest diver certifying agencies in the world. It is unique in that it is a worldwide, democratic, membership association, whose Board of Directors are elected instructor members who represent the membership and establish policies for the association.¹ NAUI courses are very thorough and routinely exceed minimum industry standards. The basic course is Scuba Diver, which takes the non-diver to open water certification. This is followed by Advanced Scuba Diver which improves your overall knowledge and skill in the water. It is designed for newly certified divers and introduces them to many different types of activities available to certified divers. The Master Scuba Diver course helps you acquire leadership-level academic knowledge and enables you to participate in advanced diving activities .² Other NAUI courses include Rescue Diving and Nitrox Diver. [...]
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NAUI: The student diver is the reason
The student diver is the reason… why NAUI has dedicated 35 years to developing the finest recreational diving instructors in the world and supporting them with the most stringent recreational diving safety standards. Scuba diving is an soft-adventure sport, and has inherent risks. The only way to minimize risk is to maximize education, “Dive safetly through education”. Many scuba certification programs exist today, but only one can be called a scuba education program, NAUI. To become a NAUI instructor, candidates undergo an intensive leadership- training program that requires extensive diving knowledge and superior water skills. The combination of exceptional leadership, sound educational materials, and true concern for the individual, has resulted in the best safety record in the recreational diving community. When students enroll in a NAUI diving program, they can be assured they’re receiving the finest diving education available. NAUI instructors won’t accept anything less… and neither should they. [...]
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Meet Dean Pennington II, NAUI Scuba Jedi and Trainer
My name is Dean Pennington II. I have been scuba diving since 1995 when I was certified as an open water diver with the YMCA. I am a PA (physician assistant). I work in neurosurgery and have extensive experience in orthopedic surgery as well. Prior to becoming a PA I spent 9 1/2 years (85-94) in the U.S. Army flying AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopters. I have extensive training in hyperbaric and dive medicine. I have completed Hyperbaric Medicine Team Training with Dr. Paul Sheffield in San Antonio, Advanced Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Training Program with Dick Rutkowski in Key Largo, the NOAA Diving Medical Officer Program that is done with the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society in Seattle and lastly the Medical Assessment of Fitness for Diving training for Diving Medical Examiner also put on by UHMS in New Orleans. My 14 years of dive training includes, Scuba instructor and [...]
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