ADVANCED CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

RESCUE DIVER TECHNIQUES

“THEY WHO HELP EACH OTHER, HELP THEMSELVES….”

Course Tuition ~ $425

OVERVIEW AND QUALIFICATIONS

The course trains divers in the knowledge and skills needed to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water problems and diving emergencies. Included are: assists, transports, surface rescues and rescues from depth involving both boat- and shore-based skin and scuba divers. This course meets the prerequisite rescue training for NAUI Skin Diving Instructor, NAUI Assistant Instructor, NAUI Divemaster and NAUI Instructor certifications. This course also meets the pre-requisite requirement for the Aquarium of the Pacific.  Note: Adult CPR training (approximately four hours) meets the requirement for Rescue Scuba Diver certification. However additional CPR training that includes two-person CPR and the use of  rescue breathing barrier devices, e.g., pocket mask, face shield, is required to meet the requirements for NAUI leadership certification.

• Graduates are considered competent to perform assists and rescues in open water provided the diving site and diving situations approximate those of the course.

• Graduates may use this certification to meet the prerequisite for the NAUI Training Assistant specialty course, NAUI leadership courses and NAUI Instructor course.

Course Format

• 2 Evening Discussion Sessions
• 2 Weekend Days at the Beach
• 1 Pool Training Session (optional at instructor’s discretion)

Course Dates – Call 714-375-0595 to reserve

POLICIES APPLYING TO SPECIALTY DIVER COURSES

OVERVIEW

NAUI Specialty Diver Courses are either introductions to or are more detailed treatments of the respective areas of specialized diving. Accordingly, some specialty courses are designed to provide more detailed training and result in additional qualifications. In these instances the qualifications are described in
the respective specialty course standard. Specialty courses provide divers the opportunity to enjoy organized diving which yields experience and documents training in specialized diving activities.

QUALIFICATION OF GRADUATES

Graduates of a specialty course are considered competent to participate in the respective specialty activities without supervision, provided the activities engaged in and the areas dived approximate those in which the diver was trained.

GENERAL PREREQUISITES

Screening ~ In a pre-course session using selected skills, the instructor screen and evaluate all students to ensure that they possess the necessary diving skills to minimize risk. This is not required when the students’ diving proficiencies are well known to the instructor. Also the instructor is to verify that the student has the prerequisite diver certification. Specialty courses with prerequisite certifications that are higher than Scuba Diver are listed in the respective course standard.
Equipment ~ Students shall furnish and be responsible for the care and maintenance of their own diving equipment. The instructor shall initially assist the student in checking all student gear to ensure it is adequate and in proper working order.
Open Water Dives ~ Required open water dives dedicated to the specialty activity vary for each course. One open water dive (which does not count toward the minimum number of dives required for a given course) is to be used as a screening and evaluation dive to determine the readiness of the students to perform the skills and activities appropriate for the particular specialty. This is not required when the students’ diving proficiencies are well known to the instructor. Some courses, because of their complexity of the training or the skills involved, have a higher minimum number of dives designated. If more than three dives on a single day is planned the following factors shall be considered: student’s physical and mental stamina, motivation, readiness to learn and be evaluated, residual nitrogen levels, hydration levels, as well as environmental conditions, dive planning, i.e., surface intervals, flying or ascending to altitude after diving.

ENRICHED AIR NITROX

Course Tuition ~ $195*

Ocean Gear is a proud provider of Nitrox training. We pump Nitrox using our membrane compressor system. This means that any diver can immediately begin Nitrox diving without the costly expense of a full Oxygen service overhaul. If you deal with nitrox gas created with partial pressure blending, you may be required to have this service provided. A simple visual inspection of your SCUBA tank is all that is necessary. If your regulator has not been serviced within the past 12 months then a standard overhaul is strongly recommended.

Benefits of Nitrox

• Extends bottom time
• Reduces surface interval time
• Increases number of dives you can make in a day
• Appears to reduce fatigue of standard SCUBA diving

Benefits of Ocean Gear’s Nitrox course

• Distance Learning program in your Home (must have internet access – webcam is helpful but not absolutely required)
• Can be added onto any of our SCUBA Certification programs at a reduced rate
• Can be combined with ocean dives in most any other training course (no additional dives are required)

OVERVIEW

This course is to provide the diver with the information necessary to utilize EANx as a breathing medium. The course may be taught as a stand-alone specialty course to certified divers or the knowledge and skills training may be integrated into other NAUI certification courses including the NAUI Scuba Diver Course.

QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES

Upon successful completion of this course or program, graduates are considered competent to utilize EANx (up to EAN40) in open water diving activities without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.

COURSE POLICIES

Dives shall not exceed a depth of 110’ or 1.4 atm with 1.6 atm PO2 as a contingency, whichever is less. No planned dives shall require actual decompression stops. This course may be taught as a NAUI Recognition Program if the open water training dives are not included. Recognition may be upgraded to EANx Diver certification upon completion of the required dives under supervision of a NAUI EANx Instructor.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

For the EANx Diver certification at least two dives are to be planed and safely executed using EANx, one of which is to be a repetitive dive. The student is to analyze his or her own breathing mixture.

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS

The following topics are to be covered: history of nitrox as a breathing gas; 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.

Course Dates:

• To Be Announced

*Course Fee is reduced to $125 if taken in conjunction with any other NAUI certification course (Scuba Diver, Advanced, Master, etc.)

UNDERWATER HUNTING & COLLECTING

Course Tuition ~ $200

VALUE OF COURSE:

You will experience unique and fun activity for underwater.

You will learn some techniques for hunting, collecting, local regulations, etc.

The best part of this course is that we get to eat after we catch!!

PREREQUISITES:

Age: Minimum 15yrs with SCUBA Diver Certification, or equivalent

COURSE POLICIES:

Meetings: 12 hours estimated including one Classroom session a couple of extensive “debriefings” at the end of each Openwater session.

OW Dives: Minimum number of dives is Two: One Skin and One SCUBA

Techniques: Use of Spear Gun for game fish and Lobster Hunting (all by hand) will be covered.

EQUIPMENT:

Fishing License w/ Ocean Stamp

Tape measure (Minimum 35”)

Huge Plastic Bag or Huge Plastic Container if you get a huge fish

COST:

Course Fee: $150 + Equipment Rental (Skin $35 and SCUBA $60)

* If students buy a spear gun from us before ocean dive, they will get $50 credit applied towards the course.

Certification: You will earn your Underwater Hunting & Collection Specialty Card

Date: TBA

Our approach is fun with a strong emphasis on safety. Numbers in the class are kept small and staffing is provided to make sure that this activity stays both fun & safe.