NAUI Training Course

Intro To Tech

OVERVIEW

This course is designed to give the Open Water or Advanced Diver an opportunity to improve their skills, knowledge and equipment configuration, thereby increasing their safety and efficiency. The Course is also intended to prepare the Advanced Diver for the rigors of technical diver training.

PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE

Minimum age of 18.
Minimum certficiation of NAUI Scuba Diver and NAUI Nitrox Diver or equivalent.
Proof of 25 logged dive with five dives on EANx.
Must be able to meet NAUI swim requirements for Scuba Diver.
Classroom hours - five are estimated.
Open water dives - four. No dive is to exceed 18 meters in depth. Dives may be in single and/or double cylinder configuration with no overhead environments.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

The students are to analyse their own breathing gas and to plan and safely execute each dive. Dive planning shall include limits based on gas consumption, oxygen toxicity exposures and inert gas absorption for each dive and breathing gas mixture. Each diver is to demonstrate switching and isolating a malfunctioning regulator, first in confined water and following adequate practice at a depth of 10 metres or less, out of air, sharing with 1.5 metre to 2.5 metre hose through a simulated restriction, underwater navigation appropriate to the dive plan and deployment of DSMB. Each diver shall participate in and demonstrate expertise in NAUI Technical Equipment Gear Configuration (NTEC). Each diver will also participate in a diver rescue simulation to include management of a diver experiencing oxygen toxicity underwater and out of gas scenarios.