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OVERVIEW This is a certification course for
certified scuba divers who desire to assume greater rescue capabilities
during diving activities. The training emphasizes accident supervision and
management with practical applications in open water. This course is
designed specifically to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to:
- Help prevent diving accidents.
- Recognize life-threatening diving
situations.
- Correctly initiate and/or supervise
rescue/assist procedures.
- Effectively perform in-water
rescue/assist techniques and procedures.
- Correctly manage rescue assistants
during and after rescues.
- Provide immediate, effective post-rescue
aid. Correctly manage a diving emergency with adjustments for local
variants.
QUALIFICATIONS OF GRADUATES
For a period of three years after the
course, graduates are considered competent to perform assists and rescues
in aquatic situations so long as the situation approximates one for which
they have been trained. After renewal of certification, the individual
will again be considered competent.
RENEWAL OF CERTIFICATION
For renewal of certification, an individual
with current First Aid and CPR certifications must correctly demonstrate
to an active-status NAUI Instructor the open water skills contained within
these standards.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
- Age. Minimum age is 17 years.
- Diver Certification. Minimum is NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver or equivalent.
- CPR & First Aid
Certification. Current certification in
CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and First Aid by a NAUI recognized
agency. Training shall include: one rescuer adult CPR, infant/child CPR,
two rescuer CPR, and rescue mask - barrier device use. (Certification
as a water safety instructor and in lifeguarding is strongly
recommended.)
- Oxygen Training. Proof of oxygen administration training within the past two
years is required unless oxygen administration is offered as part of the
course. Oxygen administration training must include the assembly, use,
and basic maintenance of constant flow and demand valve oxygen delivery
systems.
- Diving Skills. Participants must comfortably perform the following skills
prior to beginning training. Time involved for performing the skills is
in addition to the estimated course hours. The instructor is to use
these skills as screening evaluation criteria:
- Swimming skills (no
equipment)
–Swim 225 yard (207 m) nonstop, any stroke, in six minutes or less.
–Survival swim for 15 minutes.
–Recover 10 pounds (4.5 kg) from about 10 feet (3 m) of water.
–Transport another person of equal size 25 yards (22.9 m).
- Skin diving skills as
required for the NAUI Scuba Diver Course.
- Scuba skills (scuba
equipment)
–Assemble equipment, make adjustments, don equipment, and perform
pre-dive equipment inspections.
–In turn, at the surface remove and replace mask, snorkel, fins,
weight belt and scuba unit.
–In turn, underwater remove, replace and clear mask and regulator,
comfortably breathe from a regulator without wearing a mask for two
minutes, buddy breathe, and share air using and alternate air source.
–Demonstrate surface use of the BC and the ability to hover
underwater.
–Perform a Scuba Lifesaving Transport (see “Details of Selected
Skills”) of another scuba diver 100 yards (91 m) within four minutes.
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