Scuba Courses

The Advanced Scuba Diver course is an enjoyable certification

course for 12-year-old (or older) certified divers who desire

additional training, have moved from one diving area to

another and desire local orientation, do not have,

but wish to obtain, NAUI certification, or who

desire orientation to a variety of diving sites and conditions.

As part of your certification, you will complete a minimum

of six open water dives including three separate dives for

navigation, night or low visibility diving

and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters maximum depth),

plus three different dives.

Once you are 15 years of age and a certified scuba diver, you can

expand your diving knowledge with a Scuba Rescue Diver course.

Learn how to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water

problems and diving emergencies, how to assist and transport

divers, and how to perform surface rescues and rescues from

depth involving both boat and shore based skin and scuba divers.

Gain the in-depth knowledge that will establish you as a

recognized authority in your diving club or group. Thrill

to the adventure of open water dives in settings that will

test your abilities to their limit while expanding your diving

capabilities and experience. Then proudly carry the most

coveted and respected certification card in recreational

diving - that of the NAUI Master Scuba Diver.

The Master Scuba Diver course is a continuing education

certification course for divers who wish to increase their

understanding and enjoyment of diving. This course is an

excellent progression toward NAUI Leadership roles.

During your training, you will engage in a minimum of eight

open water dives including the following required dives:

• Emergency procedures and rescue


• Deep/simulated decompression diving


• Limited visibility or night diving


• Underwater navigation


• Search and recovery – light salvage

The Advanced Scuba Diver course is an enjoyable certification

course for 12-year-old (or older) certified divers who desire

additional training, have moved from one diving area to

another and desire local orientation, do not have,

but wish to obtain, NAUI certification, or who

desire orientation to a variety of diving sites and conditions.

As part of your certification, you will complete a minimum

of six open water dives including three separate dives for

navigation, night or low visibility diving

and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters maximum depth),

plus three different dives.

Once you are 15 years of age and a certified scuba diver, you can

expand your diving knowledge with a Scuba Rescue Diver course.

Learn how to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water

problems and diving emergencies, how to assist and transport

divers, and how to perform surface rescues and rescues from

depth involving both boat and shore based skin and scuba divers.

Gain the in-depth knowledge that will establish you as a

recognized authority in your diving club or group. Thrill

to the adventure of open water dives in settings that will

test your abilities to their limit while expanding your diving

capabilities and experience. Then proudly carry the most

coveted and respected certification card in recreational

diving - that of the NAUI Master Scuba Diver.

The Master Scuba Diver course is a continuing education

certification course for divers who wish to increase their

understanding and enjoyment of diving. This course is an

excellent progression toward NAUI Leadership roles.

During your training, you will engage in a minimum of eight

open water dives including the following required dives:

• Emergency procedures and rescue


• Deep/simulated decompression diving


• Limited visibility or night diving


• Underwater navigation


• Search and recovery – light salvage

While dry suits were once used almost exclusively for situations

such as ice diving or deep wreck diving, many sport divers are

now using drysuits regularly for every day recreational dives all

over the world. Perhaps you live in a cold-water climate or

want to travel to one? If so, the Dry Suit Diver course is

for you!

The Dry Suit Diver course will give you a basic knowledge and

skills needed to minimize risks and gain experience in dry suit

diving, as well as train you to properly use and maintain your

dry suit.

NAUI Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent is required for

enrollment - or your NAUI instructor can teach you both courses

in combination so you can be comfortable and warm from your

very first open water dive.

If you are at least 18 years old and have a NAUI Advanced

Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent thereof, you can

take a Wreck Diver (External Survey) course and start

exploring sunken vessels, aircraft, and other amazing

wrecks in the underwater world.

Your NAUI Wreck Diver (External Survey) instructor

will teach you about safety, hazards and cautions, special

risks of overhead environments, entanglement, limited

visibility, deep diving, equipment, location of wrecks,

sources of information, search methods, underwater

navigation, legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage,

archaeology, and much more.

NAUI’s Ice Diver course will provide you with a basic

understanding of the knowledge and skills needed to

minimize risks and gain experience in ice diving,

penetration under solid ice.

During your Ice Diver course, you’ll master many skills

and gain knowledge about ice dive organization,

procedures, problems, risks and planning, equipment

removal and replacement, underwater navigation,

use of harnesses and line techniques,

silt-out/black-water procedures, ice dive planning,

exposure hazards and treatment, ice cutting and

characteristics, signaling and much more.

You’ll also gain knowledge about atmospheric

conditions and characteristics of ice structure;

wind chill factors, cold stress, dehydration and

first aid; surface clothing and dry suits;

penetration holes and dive site preparation.

Your three required training dives will be limited to a

maximum depth of 40 feet / 12 meters and not more

than 100 feet /30 meters in a horizontal line from the

penetration hole. You can enroll in the Ice Diver course

as long as you are 18 years of age, have a NAUI

Advanced Scuba Diver certification and have at least

50 logged dives in a variety of conditions.

There are inherent hazards and risks associated with

exploring an underwater wreck. The Wreck Penetration

Diver course will give you the skills and knowledge you

need to safely dive inside a sunken vessel, aircraft or

similar structure.

You’ll learn about safety, hazards and special risks of

overhead environments; gas management, entanglement,

limited visibility, deep diving, equipment, sources of

information, search methods, underwater navigation,

legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology

and appropriate material from other specialty courses as well.

If you have NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver and NAUI

Wreck Diver (External Survey) certifications or the

equivalent thereof and are at least 18, get ready to explore!

The Helitrox Diver course teaches you how to plan and execute

Helitrox-based dives that may require stage decompression and

utilize EANx and/or oxygen for stage decompression. This

course is designed to teach you the hazards of utilizing

Helium for dives to a maximum depth of 150 fsw / 46 msw

that may require stage decompression, utilizing EANx

mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression.

During your training, you’ll complete at least four open water

dives using a Helitrox mixture (26% oxygen / 17% helium)

of which at least one will be a repetitive dive. Your NAUI

Technical Instructor may combine your Helitrox course

with the Decompression Techniques Diver Course,

with additional training and certification dives.

Your studies will include the knowledge necessary to plan

and safely execute Helitrox dives including gas needs and

requirements, oxygen toxicity limitations, nitrogen narcosis

limitations, and emergency planning, including omitted

decompression, oxygen toxicity, decompression sickness,

and equipment failure.

Topics covered will also include emergency and contingency

procedures, entry and descent techniques; inert gas narcosis

and oxygen toxicity; variable ascent-rate techniques and

deep-stop models; diver trim, ballast and buoyancy compensation;

tethered or untethered decompression methods; shore or boat

based dive team support and chamber locations; communications

and emergency breathing gases; and NAUI Technical Equipment

Configuration (NTEC).

As you continue your technical diver training, one of the

courses you’ll want to take is Decompression Techniques,

in which you will gain a working knowledge of the theory,

methods and procedures of planned stage decompression

diving. Your training will include a minimum of six dives

including planning and executing a standard stage

decompression dive less than 130 fsw / 40 msw.

Your instructor will also teach you equipment requirements

including team requirements and NAUI Technical Equipment

Configuration (NTEC), and decompression breathing gas

mixtures (including oxygen, Helitrox, and EANx). You’ll learn

the practical skills and knowledge you need for decompression

diving within course parameters.

If you are 18 years of age, posses at least NAUI Master Scuba

Diver, Deep Diver Specialty, Technical EANx Diver and Helitrox

Diver certifications (or their equivalents), and have 75 logged dives,

you may enroll in the Decompression Techniques course.

With additional dives and training, your instructor may opt to

combine this course with Technical EANx (Nitrox) Diver

or Helitrox Diver.

The Trimix Diver Course consists of two levels,

Trimix Diver Level I and Trimix Diver Level II.

These courses will give you the skills and knowledge

needed to minimize the risks of utilizing helium-based

Trimix breathing gas mixes for dives to a maximum

depth of 250 fsw / 76 msw requiring stage

decompression and utilizing EANx mixtures and/or

oxygen during decompression.

Your Trimix Level I instructor will teach you to plan

and execute technical dives that require stage

decompression and utilize helium-based tri-mix breathing

gas mixtures and EANx and/or oxygen for stage

decompression to depths above 200 fsw / 61 msw.

In your Tri-mix Level II course, you will learn how to

safely extend your diving depths down to no greater

than 250 fsw / 76 msw.

To enroll in either Trimix course, you must be certified

as a NAUI Decompression Techniques Diver and

Technical Helitrox Diver or equivalent, and have a

minimum of 100 logged dives 20 of which must have

been decompression dives.