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OVERVIEW This course is to qualify the diver in the
skills and knowledge necessary to perform as a training assistant during
diver training sessions. The key objective is to train divers to assist
others during training activities overseen by an active-status NAUI
Instructor. This course is to enhance the diver’s general skills and
abilities and is not a substitute for specific NAUI courses which create
NAUI leadership members. Although this course results in certification as
a Training Assistant it does not confer any NAUI Leadership certification
nor does it qualify the graduate to apply for or receive the benefits of
NAUI membership. Consequently, this certification does not allow the
graduate to be counted toward student instructor ratios.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
Certified training assistants are qualified
to perform the tasks of:
- Temporarily directly supervise remaining
students while an instructor conducts a skill with other students.
- Escorting no more than two diving
students on the surface and on underwater tours.
- Assisting an active-status NAUI
Instructor with other tasks which enhance the safety of students or
improve the efficiency of diver training so long as the assistant is
under the direction of the instructor and no other standards are
violated.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age:
Minimum of 18 years.
- Certification:
Training and experience equivalent to at least NAUI
Advanced Diver.
- Rescue Certification:
Certification in NAUI Scuba Rescue Diver or
equivalent.
- CPR & First Aid
Certification: Current certification in
First Aid and CPR. Note: Adult CPR training (approximately four hours)
meets the requirement for Training Assistant 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.
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Compass navigate:
– a reciprocal course to within 10 feet (3 m) of origin without using
visual references
– a square pattern to within 10 feet (3 m) of origin. Distances shall be
as great as appropriate for environmental conditions.
- Assist divers simulating each of: a
muscle cramp, anxiety, a breathing difficulty and signs of pre-panic.
- Assist/ escort each of: a tired diver,
and an incapacitated diver to safety.
- Be in charge of and satisfactorily act
as an escort during an open water dive for two other divers.
- Demonstrate a satisfactory scuba diver
rescue. (See “Details of Selected Skills”.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
- Review of rescue techniques with
emphasis on local conditions including problems, possible situations,
search techniques, rescues, assists, tows, carries and in-water rescue
breathing. Emergency management procedures as applied to divers in open
water training in the applicable area. Deployment and use of emergency
oxygen first aid. (Certification as an “oxygen provider” is
recommended.) Review of first aid as related to diving in particular.
- Underwater communications techniques to
be used by instructors and assistants. The deployment of dive area
designators as appropriate for the area. Open water diving procedures
and group control. The specifics of arranging and planning for a
training dive. Techniques of escorting students on the surface and
during underwater tours and during navigation exercises. Safety oriented
boat operation and boat diving where appropriate to the area.
- The roles and responsibilities of the
“training assistant” and the legal aspects of diver training. The use of
briefings, divemaster logs and diver inventory techniques.
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