|
|
3781 Tamiami Trail,
Port Charlotte, Florida
Tel: (941) 627-3888 Fax: (941) 627-0089
Email:
Fantasea |
 |
|
|
| |
| Technical Diving Training |
|
|
|
NAUI Technical Diving
Division
NAUI Technical Diving Division
was started in 1997 with the goal of creating a
higher standard of training worldwide by
codifying technical community training
practices. For expert help, we asked the people
who created the technology, protocols and
training methods that produced a technical
diving community. We formed advisory councils
comprised of professional divers, engineers,
physicians and researchers to help us develop
all aspects of our training. This resulted in
the formation of a Technical Training Advisory
Board and Rebreather Advisory Board to assist in
the development of technical diving standards
and training.
NAUI Technical Diving Division has
implemented policies that will assure the diver
of the highest technical instructor quality. As
a result, NAUI Instructors can provide you with
the skills, knowledge and discipline to manage
technical diving while minimizing risk |
| |
|
|
Below are just some of the NAUI Technical
Courses available through Fantasea Scuba
Technical Training Center. |
|
Closed Circuit Mixed Gas Diver |
| NAUI痴 Closed Circuit Mixed Gas Diver course
will to provide you with the skills and knowledge
needed to minimize the risks of utilizing
helium-based or trimix breathing diluent gas mixes
for diving, with dive parameters to a maximum depth
of 250 fsw / 76 msw requiring decompression with
rebreathers and constant PO2.
Your training will include dive planning limits
based on gas consumption of bailout stages, oxygen
exposures, inert gas loading and breathing gas
mixtures; navigation, diver rescue and management of
a diver experiencing oxygen toxicity; ascents with
ascent reel and lift bag; and stage decompression.
The Closed Circuit Mixed Gas Diver course is an
intensive class that requires previous
certifications in NAUI Decompression Techniques,
Heliair, and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) or the
equivalents thereof, plus a minimum of 100 logged
hours on a Closed Circuit Rebreather, 60 hours of
which are directly on the specific CCR for mixed gas
training. |
| |
|
|
Closed Circuit
Rebreather Diver |
| The Closed Circuit Rebreather course provides
the NAUI EANx certified diver with the training and
experience necessary to understand the hazards and
minimize the risks of using a closed circuit
rebreather while breathing Nitrox with a constant
oxygen partial pressure.
This no-stop decompression course is designed to
provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to
minimize the risks of using Closed-circuit
Underwater Breathing Apparatus to a maximum depth of
100 fsw / 30 msw.
Closed-circuit Underwater Breathing Apparatus
used for NAUI certification and training must have
been independently tested for authorization of
training on a specific model.
|
|
|
^Top |
|
Decompression
Technique |
| As you continue your technical diver training,
one of the courses you値l 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値l 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. |
|
|
Heliair Diver |
| The NAUI Heliair Diver course provides the
training and experience you need to competently plan
and execute extended range dives that require stage
decompression utilizing Heliair and EANx and/or
oxygen. You値l learn the hazards and proper use of
Heliair for dives to maximum of 180 fsw / 55 msw
that require stage decompression, utilizing EANx
mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression.
This course may be combined with the
Decompression Techniques Diver Course with
additional dives and training. As with all courses,
there are minimum requirements: for Heliair Diver,
you must be 18 years of age; have logged at least 75
dives, (10 of which must be decompression dives in
the environment in which the course is being
taught); and be certified as a NAUI Technical EANx
Diver, Decompression Techniques Diver unless
combined with this course, and NAUI Helitrox Diver
or equivalent thereof. |
|
|
^Top |
|
Helitrox Diver |
| 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値l 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). |
|
|
^Top |
|
Intro to Tech |
| The Introduction to Technical Diving Course
(Intro to Tech) is designed as a bridge from the
recreational diver to an introduction to the rigors
and discipline of technical diving, and is a great
preparatory course if you are considering technical
diver training or interested in streamlining your
equipment configuration.
Your NAUI Intro to Tech instructor will introduce
you to dive planning, physics and physiology,
decompression, and decompression associated with
technical diving. The NAUI Technical Equipment
Configuration (NTEC) course may also be available as
part of your Intro to Tech course or as a separate
technical course.
The Intro to Tech course is your first step to a
whole new world of technical diving!
|
| |
|
|
Mixed Gas Blender and O2 Service Tech |
| If you want to prepare EANx breathing gas
mixtures for use by divers, sign up for the Mixed
Gas Blender and Oxygen Service Technician course.
This is a great course if you plan to work in a dive
center and need additional training, or wish to
expand your knowledge of diving gas mixtures.
In it, you値l gain the skills and knowledge
needed to safely handle high pressure gases and
prepare Nitrox breathing gas mixtures for use by
divers. You値l analyze the resulting breathing gas
mixtures from your own breathing gas blending
practice and master the breathing gas blending
system used in training. |
|
^Top |
|
|
Technical Nitrox Diver |
| The Technical EANx (Nitrox) Diver course will
provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to
minimize the risks of utilizing optimal breathing
gas EANx mixtures of 25% through 80% (oxygen) for
dives to a depth of 130 fsw / 40 msw not requiring
stage decompression, using 80% EANx for
decompression and 25% to 60% EANx for bottom mix.
Your instructor can combine this course with the
Decompression Techniques Diver Course with
additional training and dives. You値l need to be 18
and have a minimum certification of NAUI EANx Diver
and Deep Diver (or equivalent) and 50 logged dives
with 10 dives on EANx to enroll in the Technical
EANx Diver course. |
| |
|
|
Technical Support
Leader |
| Become a NAUI Technical Support Leader! The
Technical Support Leader (TSL) course is designed to
train knowledgeable NAUI Divemasters and Assistant
Instructors who are also technical divers to act as
part of a support team for technical diving and
training activities.
A Technical Support Leader provides assistance to
teams of technical divers provided diving conditions
and methods approximate those in which your TSL
training occurs. Your TSL responsibilities might
include shuttling of equipment, removal and
replacement of staged decompression gases and
equipment, rigging and setting up decompression
stations and gases and monitoring divers during
ascent and staged decompression stops.
To enroll in a TSL course, you must be 18; be
certified as a NAUI Technical EANx Diver, NAUI
Rescue Diver, Oxygen Provider and NAUI Divemaster or
NAUI Assistant Instructor; have assisted with the
open water portions of at least two entry-level or
continuing education diver courses; and 75 logged
dives with 10 dives below 100 fsw / 30 msw, and 15
Nitrox dives. |
|
^Top |
|
|
Technical Wreck
Penetration Diver |
| Combine technical diving and wreck exploration
and you get Technical Wreck Penetration diving. This
course is to provide the diver with the skills and
knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize
risks in penetration wreck diving at depths beyond
130 fsw / 40 msw.
In this intensive and interesting course you値l
learn to plan and execute penetration wreck dives
that require stage decompression and utilize air and
EANx and/or oxygen for stage decompression, with
dive plans less than 165 fsw / 50 msw.
To enroll in the Technical Wreck Penetration
Diver course, you must be at least 18, have a
minimum certification as a Penetration Wreck Diver
with at least 10 logged penetration wreck dives,
minimum 50 logged dives total, and certification in
Technical NAUI EANx and Decompression Techniques.
Your NAUI instructor may combine this course with
your Decompression Techniques Course. |
| |
|
|
Tri-Mix Diver (Levels
I and II) |
| 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. |
|
^Top |
|
|
Wreck Diver
(Penetration) |
| 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値l 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! |
|
^Top |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
