NAUI OVERHEAD ENVIRONMENTS

Cavern Diver

The NAUI Cavern Diver course provides you with the fundamental skills and knowledge needed for cavern diving at depths not exceeding 100 fsw (30 msw) and at a combined depth and distance penetration not exceeding 200 feet (61 meters) from the surface. Participants will become proficient in the use of lines reels while handling a light, team and line placement, zero visibility/touch contact communications while following a line, as well as many other skills that are necessary to be a competent Cavern Diver.

Cave Diver (Levels I & II)

Does the thought of diving through an underwater cave intrigue you? Are you fascinated by the possibility of diving where few divers go? The NAUI Cave Diver Levels I and II courses build on skills and knowledge taught in the Cavern Diver course. Upon successful completion of the NAUI Cave Diver Level I course, you are qualified to plan and execute limited-penetration, simple navigation, no-decompression cave dives to depths that do not exceed 100 fsw (30 msw). NAUI Cave Diver Level II are qualified to plan and execute longer penetration cave dives with staged cylinders involving complex navigation to depths that do not exceed 130 fsw (40 msw).

Cave Guide (Technical Support Leader)

The NAUI Cave Guide course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to plan and execute guided tours in caverns and caves. As a Cave Guide, your responsibilities might include escorting stressed diver(s) out of a cave system, repairing broken guide lines, as well as assuring that all guided divers are out of the cave after completion of a dive.

Wreck Penetration Diver

The NAUI Wreck Penetration Diver course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize risks in penetration wreck diving at depths not exceeding 130 fsw (40 msw). Wreck penetration diving is any diving inside a sunken vessel, aircraft, or similar structure. Learn about the safety hazards and special risks of overhead environments, gas management, entanglement, limited visibility, NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration (NTEC), specialized equipment utilized in wreck penetration diving, search methods, underwater navigation, legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology, and more.

Technical Wreck Penetration Diver

The NAUI Technical Wreck Penetration Diver course is a combination of technical diving and wreck exploration. This course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize risks in penetration wreck diving at depths beyond 130 fsw (40 msw) and utilize trimix for dives to depths not exceeding 180 fsw (55 msw) that require staged-decompression, utilizing EANx mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression.

Technical Ice Diver

The NAUI Technical Ice Diver course provides a basic understanding of the knowledge and skills needed to minimize risks of diving under ice. Upon successful completion of the NAUI Technical Ice Diver course, you are qualified to plan and execute ice dives that do not require staged-decompression. Training includes a minimum of three open water dives limited to a maximum depth of 40 feet (12 meters) and not more than 100 feet (30 meters) in a horizontal line from the penetration hole.

Mine Diver (Levels I and II)

Mine divers explore abandoned and flooded mine shafts left from bygone days when a particular site was an active mining operation. The NAUI Mine Diver Level I and Level II courses teaches the specific skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize risk during mine diving operations. Level I Mine Divers are qualified to penetrate to a maximum depth of 100 feet (30 meters) with simple navigation while observing no-decompression limits. Level II Mine Divers are qualified to plan and execute longer penetration mine dives with staged cylinders involving complex navigation to depths that do not exceed 130 feet (40 meters).

NAUI REBREATHER DIVING

Rebreather Diving

Experience the underwater environment like never before. Observe sea life closer than you ever thought possible and explore underwater attractions in intimate detail as you silently move through the underwater world. Rebreathers remain the domain of the most serious and committed divers, but as technology improves and costs come down, the use of semi-closed and closed circuit rebreathers continues to attract new participants. Rebreathers have their advantages, but they require exceptional commitment and dedication to proper training and procedure.

Rebreathers approved for training by NAUI are listed below:

• MK 15
• MK 16 MOD 0: Air Diluent 150fsw / HeO2 200fsw MILITARY
• MK 16 MOD 1: Air Diluent 190fsw / HeO2 300fsw MILITARY
• PRISM TOPAZ
• OXILUNG (MILITARY)
• LAR V (MILITARY)
• VOYAGER CCR AND SCR
• The Evolution
• The Inspiration
• Poseidon Mk VI Discovery
• InnerSpace Systems Megalodon
• Hollis Prism 2
• JJ CCR
• Hollis Explorer
• Aqua lung FROG

NAUI rebreather training is available through the following NAUI programs:

Semi-Closed Circuit Rebreather (SCR) Diver

The Semi-Closed Circuit Rebreather Diver course provides you with the training and knowledge necessary to understand the benefits and risks of using a semi-closed circuit rebreather (SCR) while breathing EANx mixtures of 32% to 80% oxygen. Upon successful completion of this course, divers will be considered competent to plan and execute unit specific SCR dives up to 100 fsw (30 msw).

Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) Diver

The NAUI Closed Circuit Rebreather course provides you with the training and experience necessary to understand the hazards and minimize the risks of using a closed circuit rebreather while breathing EANx with a constant oxygen partial pressure. Upon successful completion of the NAUI Closed Circuit Rebreather course, you are qualified to plan and execute unit-specific, air-diluent, no-decompression, closed circuit rebreather dives to depths not exceeding 100 fsw (30 msw).

Closed Circuit Rebreather Mixed Gas (CCRMG) Diver

The NAUI Closed Circuit Rebreather Mixed Gas Diver course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing helium-based or trimix breathing diluent gas mixtures for dives with rebreathers and constant PO2 requiring decompression. Upon successful completion of the NAUI Closed Circuit Rebreather Mixed Gas Diver course, you are qualified to plan and execute technical, constant PO2 dives on unit-specific CCRs that require decompression and utilize helium-based or Trimix breathing gas mixtures to depths not exceeding 200 fsw (61 msw).

Extreme Exposure Closed Circuit Rebreather Mixed Gas Diver

The NAUI Extreme Exposure Closed Circuit Rebreather Mixed Gas Diver course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing helium-based or trimix breathing diluent gas mixtures for dives with rebreathers and constant PO2 requiring decompression. At least four dives below 200 fsw (61 msw) are required during training, not to exceed 300 fsw (91 msw).

Mixed Gas Blender and Oxygen Service Technician

The NAUI mixed Gas Blender and Oxygen Service Technician course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to safely handle high pressure gases, prepare oxygen enriched air and helium-based mixes, and prepare equipment for oxygen service.

Get Started

Minimum age for NAUI Technical training programs is 18 years of age. Additional training and experience requirements vary for each course. A qualified NAUI Instructor can evaluate your experience and answer questions about your readiness to pursue specific training. Find a NAUI Technical Training Center or instructor near you by visiting the NAUI Dive Center and Professional Locator.

What’s Next?

NAUI technical divers can maintain or improve skills through a variety of NAUI programs including the suite of NAUI First Aid course, NAUI Nitrox Gas Blender and NAUI Mixed Gas Blender.

NAUI MIXED GAS AND DECOMPRESSION DIVING

Mixed Gas and Decompression Diving

Technical divers use a variety of mixed gases to accomplish mission objectives.
NAUI offers a variety of training programs for mixed gas and decompression diving including:

Technical Decompression Diver

This course provides you with the theory, methods, and procedures of planned staged decompression diving while using optimal breathing gas mixtures. Participants will learn how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive to depths not exceeding 130 fsw (40 msw).

Helitrox Diver

The NAUI Helitrox Diver course provides the training and experience necessary to understand the hazards of utilizing helium-enriched EANx for dives to depths not exceeding 150 fsw (46 msw) that may require staged-decompression, utilizing EANx mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression. Graduates will be competent plan and execute extended range dives requiring staged-decompression utilizing Helitrox and oxygen.

Trimix Diver

The NAUI Trimix Diver course provides you with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing helium-based trimix breathing gas mixtures for dives to a maximum depth of 200 fsw (61 msw) requiring staged-decompression and utilizing EANx mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression.

Extreme Exposure Diver

The NAUI Extreme Exposure Diver course provides you with the experience and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of diving to depths beyond 200 fsw (61 msw) while utilizing helium-based trimix breathing mixtures, hypoxic trimix breathing mixtures, helium-based and EANx-based travel gases, as well as EANx and oxygen during decompression.

Technical Support Leader (TSL)

The NAUI Technical Support Leader (TSL) course trains knowledgeable NAUI Instructors, Divemasters, and Assistant Instructors who are also technical divers to act as part of a support team for technical diving, training activities, and guiding technical dives that are not in an overhead environment. An active-status NAUI TSL is qualified to assist an active-status NAUI Technical Instructor in technical diving instruction.

Get Started

Minimum age is 18 years of age and graduate from a NAUI Introduction to Technical Diving course or equivalent is required for all continuing NAUI Technical Diving courses. Additional training and experience requirements vary for each course. A qualified NAUI Instructor can evaluate your resume and answer questions about your readiness to pursue specific training. To enroll, BOOK NOW link on right handside! Signing up for a class is easy, while wetsuits and fun await!

What’s Next?

NAUI technical divers can maintain or improve skills through a variety of NAUI programs including the suite of NAUI First Aid course, NAUI Nitrox Gas Blender and NAUI Mixed Gas Blender.

NAUI DIVEMASTER

NAUI DIVEMASTER

Divemaster (DM)

Would you like to lead dives and dive trips and take certified divers on vacations to the world's best dive sites? Many Divemasters are employed full-time or work independently supervising certified divers during club, store, resort or charter tour and travel activities. As a NAUI Divemaster you enjoy again and again adventures to which you introduce your clients. NAUI Divemaster certification is another option leading to NAUI Instructor qualification.

Overview

The NAUI Divemaster rating is the highest NAUI leadership-level certification with the exception of Instructor. The program is designed to train experienced and knowledgeable divers to organize and conduct enjoyable open water dives for certified divers.

Qualifications of Graduates

• An active-status NAUI Divemaster is qualified to organize and conduct dives for certified divers if the diving activities and locale approximate those in which the Divemaster is trained. Additional training, knowledge or experience is necessary for the Divemaster who desires to organize highly specialized activities, such as wreck penetration, cavern or ice dives or enter a new locale.
• An active-status NAUI Divemaster is qualified to organize and conduct NAUI Recognition (such as International Diver) and Experience Programs (such as Stingray Experience) and award appropriate recognition materials to participants.
• An active-status NAUI Divemaster is qualified to assist an active-status NAUI Instructor in diving courses.
• An active-status NAUI Divemaster who completes a NAUI-DAN First Aid Instructor orientation, who has completed all required NAUI-DAN orientation modules and is using the NAUI-DAN training and support materials, may teach the NAUI-DAN First Aid programs.
• If all other prerequisites are met, a current NAUI Divemaster is qualified to enter a NAUI Instructor Training Course (ITC).

Prerequisites for Entering the Course

• Minimum age is 18 years by the water phase of the course. 
• Current registration as a NAUI FIT Program graduate. (Optional as of 6/1/19)
• Current certification as a NAUI Open Water Scuba Diver or the equivalent
• Current certification as a NAUI Rescue Scuba Diver or the equivalent
• Current certification as a NAUI Nitrox Diver or the equivalent
• Current certification as a NAUI Master Scuba Diver or the equivalent
• Current certification in NAUI First Aid for the Diving Professional or equivalent.
• A minimum of 50 logged open water scuba dives with a minimum of 25 hours bottom time. Dives shall be varied in environment, depth, and activities.
• Medical Approval - Verification of good physical condition as documented by a medical examination and unconditional approval for diving by a licensed physician within the preceding 12 months.
• Materials – Contact the NAUI Training Department for current requirements.