Learn To Dive - NAUI Worldwide

Beginner Level

Beginner level courses are designed to introduce new divers to the fundamentals of diving. These courses provide the necessary skills and knowledge to dive safely and comfortably under supervision or independently within the scope of their certification.

Supervised Diver

Experience the underwater world with confidence through the NAUI Supervised Diver Course. Explore dive sites safely while building your skills and knowledge. Dive into adventure with expert supervision and enjoy the beauty of the ocean like never before.

Tandem Diver

Scuba Diver (Supervised Diver)

Open Water Scuba Diver

Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Diver

Entry Level Diver

Embark on new underwater adventures with NAUI’s entry-level programs, designed to open up a whole new world underwater! With each course, you’ll recieve the highest quality of training, supplying you with the confidence to take more advanced course work that enables you to explore new environments.

Advanced Diving Courses

NAUI training continues far beyond the basics! NAUI has the highest training standards in the diving industry and NAUI divers enjoy a worldwide reputation for being accomplished underwater explorers where each breath turns a new page in a journey into the unknown.

Continuing Education

Continue your education to explore new dive sites and equipment configurations undertake activities under the supervision of a NAUI Instructor. These courses allow you to build even more confidence and skill as a diver or learn a new configuration such as sidemount or full face mask while allowing you experience the excitement of learning more about the underwater world.

Advanced Open Water Diver

Master Scuba diver

Deep Diver

Night Diver

Specialty Courses

NAUI Instructors teach a wide range of specialized types of diving like deep diving, night diving, underwater archaeology, digital imaging, and much more. Just about any area of underwater interest is taught in a NAUI Specialty course.

Safety & Support Training

Safety and Support courses train divers in the essential skills to rescue, first aid, oxygen administration, and other skills that support diving operations like mixing breathing gases.

Rescue Diver & First Aid

These courses train 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.

Rescue Scuba Diver

Diving First Aid for Professionals

Basic Life Support: CPR & First Aid

Emergency Oxygen

NAUI Powered by DAN First Aid

Equip yourself with essential life-saving skills. Learn how to effectively respond to, diving and medical emergencies as a lay provider. Be prepared to make a difference when it matters most.

Support Course

Enhance your diving proficiency with NAUI’s Support Courses. These courses provide you with the vital skills needed to safely handle high-pressure gases, prepare oxygen-enriched air and helium-based mixes, and ensure scuba equipment is ready for oxygen service.

Enriched Air Blender

Mixed Gas Blender/O2 Tech

Leadership and Professional Training

Leadership and Professional Training prepares divers for roles such as dive instructors and dive masters. These courses focus on leadership, teaching techniques, and advanced diving skills, enabling divers to guide and educate others.

Leadership Courses

The leadership and instructor levels of certification are:

Skin Diving Instructor
Assistant Instructor Divemaster
Instructor

The minimum age is 18 years for all leadership programs. Certifications as a NAUI Open Water Scuba Diver, NAUI Rescue Scuba Diver, NAUI Nitrox Diver, NAUI Master Scuba Diver, NAUI First Aid for the Diving Professional, NAUI Oxygen Provider (or equivalent) are required. The Skin Diving Instructor certification (formerly Skin Diving Leader) has long been unique to NAUI. It qualifies individuals to train and certify skin divers and conduct snorkeling experience programs. Certification as a NAUI Skin or Open Water Scuba Diver or the equivalent is a prerequisite for this program. Both the Assistant Instructor and Divemaster ratings allow individuals to attend an Instructor Training Course (ITC) to be trained and qualified as NAUI Instructors. NAUI’s Familiarization-Instruction-Testing (FIT) Program is an optional non-certification program that may be used as a prerequisite for enrollment in the NAUI Assistant Instructor course, NAUI Divemaster course, or NAUI Instructor Crossover Course (ICC). The program includes both instruction and evaluation. Enrollees receive the information needed to prepare for NAUI membership and NAUI leadership training. Participants are given knowledge, water skill and other performance evaluations, critiques and counseling to ensure they are aware of their state of preparedness for NAUI membership and continued leadership training.

Divemaster

Instructor

Specialized Training

Specialized Training encompasses niche area of diving that require specific skills and knowledge beyond the basics. This includes Technical ,Public Safety, apnea (Freediving) diving programs, which focus on unique diving disciplines and achievements.

Mixed Gas and Decompression Diving

Overhead Environments

Technical Diver

Technical diving is a form of scuba diving that exceeds the typical recreational limits imposed on depth and immersion time (bottom time). Tec diving involves accelerated decompression and/or the use of variable gas mixtures during a dive. Therefore, this advanced method of diving requires additional experience, training, and equipment.

Public Safety Diving

Public Safety Divers are a special breed! Many start as recreational divers, but still have their intense desire to serve their local communities! Many of these divers join local volunteer and/or paid Public Safety Diver teams to provide emergency, rescue, and investigative services to the public. The NAUI Public Safety Diver program introduces the fundamental skills needed by Public Safety Divers during underwater search, rescue, and recovery operations. The NAUI Public Safety Diver course is an entry-level course in public safety diving for current or future members of PSD teams.

Public Safety Diver

Introduction to Freediving

Freediver – Confined Water

Apnea

The NAUI Apnea training, also known as NAUI Freediving training, teaches the techniques to allow you to comfortably enjoy the underwater world and improve your breath-holding ability. Given its commitment to quality instruction, NAUI ensures students receive the best and safest freediving instruction available.

Recognition

The NAUI International Diver Recognition program offers divers the chance to enhance their open water experience in diverse environments under the supervision of leadership-level instructors. Unlike a traditional training course, this is a participatory activity designed to expand your diving horizons. Participants will receive official NAUI recognition materials upon completion, which serve as verifiable proof of their supervised diving experience.

International Diver