NAUI Training Course

Wreck Penetration Diver

OVERVIEW

This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimise risks in penetration wreck diving at depths shallower than 40 metres. Wreck diving penetration is defined as diving inside a sunken vessel, aircraft or similar structure.

This course may be combined with a decompression techniques course which will increase classroom and practical application time to 16 hours and dives to 10.

QUALIFICATION OF STUDENTS

Upon successful completion of this course, students are considered competent to plan and execute penetration wreck dives that do not require stage decompression (unless combined with a Staged Decompression Techniques Course) without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.

PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE

Minimum age of 18.
Minimum certification as a NAUI Nitrox Diver or equivalent with a minimum of 50 logged dives.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

The students are to analyse their own breathing mixture 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 between 10 and 20 metres, out of gas sharing with 1.5 metre or longer hose through a simulated restriction, modified frog kicks , back downs and helicopters, locating a lost penetration line, silt out/black water procedures, locating a lost diver, underwater navigation appropriate to the dive plan and deployment f a DSMB. Students shall participate in a diver rescue simulation to include management of a diver experiencing underwater oxygen toxicity.