The adventure begins, Imagine watching the water level move up your mask as you slowly go below the surface - and continue to breathe! It's the most exciting feeling imaginable. The NAUI Scuba Diver course will teach you everything you need to know to independently and competently scuba dive with a buddy - on your own to explore and discover.
OVERVIEW
Scuba Diver is the NAUI entry level scuba certification course. It provides
the fundamental knowledge and skills to scuba dive. Upon successful completion
of this course, graduates are considered competent to engage in open water diving
activities without supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas
dived approximate those of training.
OPEN WATER
DIVES
The
minimum number of open water dives is five. They may be all scuba dives or one
skin dive and four scuba dives. No more than two scuba dives may be made on
a single day during the course. Open water training may be completed in two
days with a skin dive and two scuba dives on one day and two additional scuba
dives on the other day. All open water training must take place during daylight
hours. Sixty feet (18 m) is the maximum depth for any open water training dives
during the course.
PREREQUISITES
FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years for Scuba Diver certification. (Junior
certification for ages 10 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying
to All Courses”, Age, Junior Certification.”)
Diver Certification. None required.
Prior Training. Students who hold credentials from the NAUI
Passport Diver Program may, at the discretion of the instructor, be awarded
credit for skills and knowledge acquired.
Recognition materials:
Experienced Scuba Diver Course
OVERVIEW
This course provides a means for experienced scuba divers with no recognized
recreational diving certification to become certified by NAUI. These divers
may have military, commercial or scientific diving training or may not have
any formal training. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all
designated qualifications.
OPEN WATER
DIVES
When
all eligibility requirements have been met and the instructor is assured the
diver is ready, the diver shall undertake the open water diving portion of the
NAUI Scuba Diver Course (5 dives).
or
if time or conditions do not allow the experienced diver to take the preferred open water training portion of the NAUI Scuba Diver Course, the following requirements shall be substituted:
The diver is to
complete all appropriate skin and scuba diving skill requirements from the Scuba
Diver Course in a pool and/or confined water.
The diver is to complete at least two open water dives, satisfactorily completing
all of the open water skill requirements from the Scuba Diver Course.
All course activities are to be recorded in the student’s diving log and
authenticated by the instructor.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years.
Diver Certification. None required, but must provide proof
of diving experience of at least 25 open water scuba dives.
Diving Knowledge. Pass an entry-level written examination on
scuba diving.
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