Training Assistant

About this course

This specialty course 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. Certified training assistants are qualified to perform the tasks of temporarily directly supervising remaining students while an instructor conducts a skill with other students.

Prerequisite

• Age. Minimum is 18 years by the water phase of the course.
• Certification/Experience/Knowledge.
  • Certification as a NAUI Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver or the equivalent is required.
  • Certification as a NAUI Rescue Scuba Diver or the equivalent is required.
  • Current certification in first aid and CPR is required. Note: Adult CPR training (approximately four hours) meets the requirement for NAUI 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.
  • The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so. One open water dive (which does not count toward the minimum number of dives required for the course) may be used as a screening and evaluation dive. This is not required when the student’s diving proficiencies are well known to the instructor.
• Equipment. Students shall furnish and be responsible for the care and maintenance of their own diving equipment. The instructor shall initially assist the student in checking all student gear to ensure it is adequate and in proper working order.