Night Diver

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.

Underwater Environment

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.

Underwater Photographer

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.

Search and Recovery Diver

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.

Underwater Hunter and Collector

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.

Wreck Diver (External Survey)

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, artefacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology and appropriate material from other specialty courses.

Underwater Ecologist

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.

Underwater Archaeologist

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 artefact cataloguing 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.

Deep Diver

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.

Nitrox Diver

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.

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Training Assistant

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.

Prerequisites:

• NAUI Advanced Diver or equivalent
• NAUI Scuba Rescue Diver or equivalent
• Current First Aid and CPR certification

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Scuba Rescue Diver

Trains divers in the knowledge and skills needed to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water problems and diving emergencies.

Prerequisites:

• NAUI Basic Scuba Diver or equivalent

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Advanced Scuba Rescue Diver

Certification course for certified scuba divers who desire to assume greater rescue capabilities during diving activities.

Prerequisites:

• Age: Minimum 17 years
• Diver Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver or equivalent
• CPR and First Aid Certification
• Diving Skills: Pass all screening skills