Skin | Basic | Experienced | Advanced | Master
Night Diver | Underwater Environment | Underwater Photographer | Search and Recovery Diver | Underwater Hunter and Collector | Wreck Diver (External Survey) | Underwater Ecologist | Underwater Archaeologist | Deep Diver | Nitrox Diver | Training Assistant | Scuba Rescue Diver | Advanced Scuba Rescue Diver
Skin Diving Instructor | Assistant Instructor | Divemaster
TSD/PDP | Refresher Scuba Experience | International Diver Recognition
NAUI entry level scuba diving 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.
Provides a means for experienced scuba divers with no recognized recreational scuba diving certification to become certified by NAUI. These divers may have military, commercial, or scientific scuba diving training or may not have any formal training. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all designated qualifications.
Continuing education certification course for certified divers. It is an enjoyable program of continued supervised experience designed to introduce divers to a variety of scuba diving activities and to be taught entirely in an open water setting. Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to engage in open water scuba diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.
Continuing education certification course for divers who wish to increase their understanding and enjoyment of scuba diving. Emphasis is on student participation and practical application of knowledge in open water after a classroom discussion of subjects. Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to engage in open water diving activities without supervision, provided the scuba diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.
Provides the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of scuba diving at night. Diver will learn about planning and preparation, night diving equipment, procedures, problems, hazards, navigation and buddy system techniques.
Exposes diver to the physical and biological aspects of the scuba diving environment with emphasis on the local area. Diver will learn about plant and animal life; conservation and pollution; water movement and characteristics; shore, bottom, and surface conditions; and diving locations.
Provides the diver with the skills and knowledge to enjoy underwater photography while minimizing the risks of such activities. This is a course of underwater camera techniques and underwater photo problems. Diver will learn about underwater photographic equipment, films, photo techniques, lighting techniques, fundamentals of photography, underwater camera techniques and underwater photo problems.
Provides the diver with the skills and knowledge to do those underwater tasks commonly needed by the experienced recreational diver to minimize the risks of such tasks. Diver will learn about underwater navigation, limited visibility diving, search methods, and light salvage or recovery.
Provides the diver with the skills and knowledge necessary to spear fish, take game and collect specimens while minimizing the diving risks of such activities. (Skin or Scuba Divers) Diver will learn about 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.
Provides the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize risks in wreck diving which means diving around a sunken vessel, aircraft or debris field. Diver will learn about safety, hazards and cautions, special risks of overhead environments, entanglement, limited visibility, deep scuba 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.
Exposes the diver to either kelp forest or coral reef ecology and the methods used by underwater ecologists in their studies of the respective ecosystems. Diver will learn about general morphology of kelp forests or coral reefs as appropriate; diving safety, hazards and cautions for each, methods of conservation/preservation. Diver will learn to recognize common flora and fauna, and precautions for hazardous marine life as well as survey methods for determining population densities of selected species and environmental stresses.
Exposes the diver to the methods used by underwater archaeologists in their studies and preservation of submerged historic sites. Diver will learn about archival research methods, site mapping and sketching, use of marker buoys, setting a baseline and artifact cataloging techniques as well as diving safety, hazards and cautions of underwater archaeology diving, and local, regional and national laws governing submerged archaeological sites and diver access.
Provides 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 consists of a dive between 60 and 130 feet. Diver will learn about the 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.
Provides the diver with the information necessary to utilize EANx as a breathing medium. Diver will learn about the history of nitrox; 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, EANx, RGBM based dive tables, or a personally owned dive computer; appropriate dive planning; common gas mixing procedures; and gas analyzing procedures.
Qualifies the diver in the skills and knowledge necessary to perform as a training assistant during diver training sessions. Train diver to assist others during training activities overseen by an active-status NAUI Instructor.
Trains divers in the knowledge and skills needed to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water problems and diving emergencies.
Certification course for certified scuba divers who desire to assume greater rescue capabilities during diving activities.
Leadership level certification course designed to train and qualify persons and issue certifications in skin (breath-hold) diving.
Leadership level certification course designed to introduce students to diving instruction basics and test them in fundamental water skills needed to be capable assistants.
Highest leadership level certification course with the exception of Instructor. It is designed to train experienced and knowledgeable divers to organize and conduct enjoyable open water dives for certified divers.
Try Scuba Diving - Passport Diver Program is an introductory, non-certification program suitable for introducing non-divers to scuba diving and providing sufficient training to enable graduates of the full program to continue to scuba dive under controlled conditions without meeting the requirements of scuba diving certification.
This is a non-certification program which afford formal refresher training at the Scuba Diver level for divers who need to re-establish proficiency owing to scuba diving inactivity or to re-evaluate proficiency in light of intended dive trips or other factors.
This is a NAUI recognition program that is participatory, rather than a training program. It affords divers opportunities to enjoy and gain additional open water experience in varied locales and conditions under leadership level supervision.
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