Intro to Technical Diving
Intro to Tech: This course is designed to give the open water, advanced diver or instructor an opportunity to improve their skills, knowledge and equipment configuration, thereby increasing their safety and efficiency at all levels of diving. Course is also intended to prepare the diver for the rigors of technical diver training, however any diver will benefit. This is an introduction of the skills demonstrated in NAUI Technical courses. Focus is to be on diver's proper buoyancy, trim, teamwork and core skills. Propulsion techniques are introduced to include frog kick, modified flutter kick, helicopter turns and backkicks.
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Also included is NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration (NTEC), gear inspection, decompression systems utilized in technical dive team applications, and an introduction to overhead environment consideration. Also to be covered is an introduction to support team operations, simulated decompression, liftbag deployment and line reel use.
Graduates are considered competent to enter into a NAUI Technical course as long as all other prerequisites are met. Course gives the open water recreational divers the ability to increase their confidence and skills while remaining within no-decompression limits and by utilizing streamlined and efficient equipment configurations, divers will have the freedom to improve their skills. These divers will be more skilled, aware and responsible. Improving non-technical skills, techniques, teamwork and building diver confidence are the goals of the course.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
This course focuses on equipment and skill development. Also included are basic discussions on decompression theory, physics, physiology and medical aspects as applied to planned decompression diving, with special emphasis on mechanisms of bubble formation, a review of inert gas perfusion and diffusion, equivalent narcosis depth (END), advantages of oxygen enriched air mixes for decompression, oxygen toxicity, dive time management. Dive planning considerations to include depth, time, gas mixture, simulated decompression, gas quantities, logistics and contingencies.
SCOPE OF COURSE
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
The students are to analyze their own breathing as 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 of 33 fsw (10 msw) or less, different propulsion techniques, out of air sharing with five foot (1.5 meter) to eight foot (2.5 meter) hose through a simulated restriction, underwater navigation appropriate to the dive plan, and deployment of lift bag. 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.
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS
NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration Requirements
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age: Minimum is 18 years.
Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver, NAUI EANx or equivalent level. These requirements can be modified or amended during pre-course interview and/or screening dive.
Additional requirements include:
The Intro to Tech course is your first step to a whole new world of technical diving!
Policies applying to all NAUI SCUBA Courses can be found here
Graduates are considered competent to enter into a NAUI Technical course as long as all other prerequisites are met. Course gives the open water recreational divers the ability to increase their confidence and skills while remaining within no-decompression limits and by utilizing streamlined and efficient equipment configurations, divers will have the freedom to improve their skills. These divers will be more skilled, aware and responsible. Improving non-technical skills, techniques, teamwork and building diver confidence are the goals of the course.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
This course focuses on equipment and skill development. Also included are basic discussions on decompression theory, physics, physiology and medical aspects as applied to planned decompression diving, with special emphasis on mechanisms of bubble formation, a review of inert gas perfusion and diffusion, equivalent narcosis depth (END), advantages of oxygen enriched air mixes for decompression, oxygen toxicity, dive time management. Dive planning considerations to include depth, time, gas mixture, simulated decompression, gas quantities, logistics and contingencies.
SCOPE OF COURSE
- The maximum training depths for these dives are 60 fsw
- At least 4 open water dives are required for certification
- Dives must be in a double tank configuration or single tank with H valve
- Maximum PO2 is 1.2 atm for working portions of the dive
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
The students are to analyze their own breathing as 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 of 33 fsw (10 msw) or less, different propulsion techniques, out of air sharing with five foot (1.5 meter) to eight foot (2.5 meter) hose through a simulated restriction, underwater navigation appropriate to the dive plan, and deployment of lift bag. 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.
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS
NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration Requirements
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age: Minimum is 18 years.
Certification: NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver, NAUI EANx or equivalent level. These requirements can be modified or amended during pre-course interview and/or screening dive.
Additional requirements include:
- Medical clearance and physically fit
- Nonsmoker
- Minimum of 25 logged dives with at least 5 (beyond certification) using EANx
The Intro to Tech course is your first step to a whole new world of technical diving!
Policies applying to all NAUI SCUBA Courses can be found here