NAUI is committed to providing the highest quality diver training available and using various methods to ensure NAUI standards are met whenever instruction is conducted. As part of this commitment, we actively monitor and publish recent quality assurance activities.
NAUI Members are defined as NAUI certified Instructors, Divemasters, Assistant Instructors, and Skin Diving Instructors.
If you have any Ethics or Quality Assurance related questions, would like to lodge a complaint about, or extend Kudos to a NAUI Member, please mail, fax or email a signed letter with any supporting documentation (if necessary) to:
NAUI Worldwide
NAUI Worldwide Headquarters
Attn: Ethics & Quality Assurance
9030 Camden Field Parkway
Riverview, FL. 33578
USA
Email
813-628-8253 Fax
813-628-6284 Voice
800-553-6284 Voice
Membership Categories
Membership in NAUI is open to all qualified persons, as detailed below. Membership consists of two types, voting and non-voting.
• Voting Members. All members under this section must be at least 18 years of age or older. They shall have the right and privilege to vote on any matters as called for in the NAUI Bylaws. Voting members may be designated in active or sustaining status, but such designation does not affect their right and privilege to vote.
A. Instructors. These are members who have attained the certification status of instructor by completing the requirements established by the NAUI Board of Directors to enable them to issue various levels of diving certification as may be provided by the Association.
(i.) Active status instructors are instructor members who have attained the certification status of instructor and meet the requirements to issue certifications as established by the NAUI Board of Directors.
(ii.) Sustaining status instructors are instructor members who have attained the certification status of instructor but do not currently meet the requirements to issue certifications as established by the NAUI Board of Directors.
B. Leadership Members. These are members of the NAUI who have attained the certification status of skin diving instructor, divemaster, assistant instructor, or other leadership titles as approved by the NAUI Board of Directors and may be granted such authority as may be determined by the NAUI Board of Directors.
(i.) Active status leadership members are leadership members who have attained a leadership level certification and meet the requirements to perform their duties as established by the NAUI Board of Directors.
(ii.) Sustaining status leadership members are leadership members who have attained a leadership level certification, but do not meet the requirements to perform their duties as established by the NAUI Board of Directors.
• Non-Voting Members. Non-voting members do not have the right to vote, nor hold office as a director of the Association.
A. Affiliate Members. Business entities that may be granted membership under such terms and conditions as may be established and approved by the NAUI Board of Directors.
B. Honorary Members. The NAUI Board of Directors may elect honorary members in the association by a vote of the NAUI Board of Directors. Such members shall be exempt from the payment of any dues or assessments and shall be entitled to all the privileges that the Association may bestow upon them and no others.
C. Emeritus Members. Non-voting instructor and leadership members who have paid annual dues and who have retired from all diving instructional, assisting, and supervisory activities, but retain all other benefits and privileges of NAUI membership except the right to vote.
D. Other Members. Other levels of non-voting memberships with corresponding prerequisites, rights, benefits, and privileges may be established and approved by vote of the NAUI Board of Directors.
• Lifetime Members. These may be voting or non-voting members of the association who have met the financial requirements for Lifetime Membership as established by the NAUI Board of Directors.