Overview

The NAUI Intro to Tech course is designed to give the advanced diver an opportunity to improve their dive knowledge and skills, streamline their equipment configuration, while increasing safety, efficiency, and fun.  This course is specifically intended to prepare divers for the rigors of technical diver training.

Is this course for me?

Are you nitrox certified and interested in learning more about technical diving or just improving your dive skills? Regardless of motivation, this course will help take your diving to the next level.

Course Details

We'll be focusing on proper buoyancy trim, using more efficient kicking techniques (you'll be turning in circles, swimming forward and backwards, all without disturbing the bottom), equipment configuration, emergency procedures, and team diving.

Academics

We’ll spend 8 hours in the classroom discussing NAUI Reduced Gradient Bubble Model theory and tables, physics, physiology, and medical aspects as applied to planned decompression diving, with a special emphasis on bubble formation mechanisms, a review of inert gas perfusion and diffusion, equivalent narcosis depth (END), maximum operating depth (MOD), advantages of oxygen enriched mixes for decompression, and oxygen toxicity.  Dive planning considerations will include depth, time, gas mixes, required gas quantities, simulated decompression, and contingencies.  We’ll also spend time discussing the NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration (NTEC). 

Pool Work  

Pool work will focus on maintaining proper buoyancy and trim.  You'll be introduced to the modified frog kick, modified flutter, helicopter turns, and everyone's favorite - the backwards kick.  Other skills include valve shut-downs, gas sharing with long hose, and spool & lift bag deployment.

Open Water Dives

Here’s where we put everything together.  We’ll conduct (at least) four dives, covering S-drills, buoyancy checks, propulsion techniques, out of gas drills, simulated oxygen toxicity rescue, simulate swimming through a restriction while sharing gas, and lift bag deployment with simulated deco.  Proper buoyancy & trim will be expected at all times.

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