Diving04 2007-04-04
NAUI Training Progression:
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NAUI Scuba Diver
Learning Objectives:
1. Select use and care for safe comfortable equipment.
2. Explain how buoyancy changes at depths with the compression of air
spaces and how to select proper weights to avoid unsafe negative buoyancy at
depth.
3. Define and explain the cause, prevention, effects, symptoms and first
aid for:
Squeezes. Shallow water blackout. The panic syndrome and associates rapid,
shallow breathing.
Cold and heat problems. Exhaustion, cramps, breathing difficulties.
Nitrogen narcosis.
Contaminated scuba air. Air embolism and other lung overpressure injuries.
4. Select dive sites and other experience and explain when to seek advice
from local divers.
5. Identify potentially dangerous water conditions and flora and fauna in
areas where trained.
6. Explain water movement and its potential effects on divers.
7. Use repetitive dive tables to determine time and depth required to
avoid stage decomposition on single and repetitive divers.
8. Explain the first aid treatment for shock, wounds and drowning.
9. Explain the importance of maintaining proper physical conditioning for
diving and the action to take before resuming diving after a period of
inactivity.
10. Explain the importance and benefits of continuing diving education and
identify avenues for achieving it.
11. Record diving activities in a dive log and explain the importance of having
an instructor or dive-master authenticate all entries.
12. Perform all diving skills required in these standards with ease and
proficiency.
13. Pass a standard scuba examination with a minimum score of 75%.
Confined Water Preparation:
A portion of the required 17 total hours of practical
application is spent developing skills for application in the open water.
For a complete listing and suggested learning sequence see the Dive
Instructor Guide.
Plus swimming skills as follows:
1. Distance swim 200 meters.
2. Under water swim 15 meters.
3. Ten(10) minute survival float.
Skill Requirements:
1. Scuba Assembly and Disassembly.
2. Buoyancy Control. 3.
Introduction to Scuba/Regulator Clearing.
4. Regulator Recovery.
5. Mask Cleaning. 6. Swimming
with Fins. 7.
Waterman-ship Evaluation.
8. Diving Preparations.
9. Entries and Exits. 10.
Snorkeling and Surface Dives.
11. Snorkeling/Regulator Exchanges.
12. Descents and Ascents. 13.
Equipment Handling.
14. Air Sharing. 15. Controlled
Emergency Swimming Ascents. 16.
Rescue Techniques.
NAUI Safe Scuba Diving Practices:
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