Additional Details
NAUI Cave Diver Level I:
This course is to provide the diver with the skills
and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize
risks while conducting limited penetration, simple
navigation cave dives returning to the original entrance
during exit at depths that do not exceed a Maximum
Depth of 100 fsw within the NDL and appropriate Oxygen
Exposure not exceeding a PO2 of 1.4ata and falling
within Rule of Thirds for planned dive. Divers will
be able to conduct cave dives with up to 2 jumps off
the main line.
Students will discuss academic topics ranging from: Land owner relations and conservation, Diving limitations, including the rule of thirds for dissimilar cylinder sizes, Accident analysis, Cave formations & terminology, Hazards associated with cavern and cave diving, Review of NTEC and Intro to Tech Skills and academics.
Skill Requirements:
Land Drills: Proficient use of spools and reels while handling a light, Team and line placement procedures, Safety spool deployment for lost diver and lost line procedures, Zero visibility/touch contact communications while following a line, jump/gap reel or spool deployment with navigational aids.
Diving Skills (In the cavern zone): Guideline deployment and removal including team responsibilities and roles, modified frog, flutter and pull and glide propulsion, Simulated primary light failure and deploy back up and exit with team, Lost teammate drill, Lost line drill.
Diving Skills:
Gas analysis and planning, Dive planning using the rule of thirds, O2 toxicity exposures, inert gas
absorption based on depth and time within the no-deco limits, penetration distance within cave diver limits and diver comfort.
Cave Skills:
While maintaining proper buoyancy and trim – Install a jump/gap reel or spool, Share gas with a teammate while swimming at least 100’/30m, Simulated primary light failure and deploy back up while maintaining
buoyancy and trim, Simulated 0 vis, out-of-gas teammate maintain touch communications and swim 100’/30m while maintaining contact with guideline.
This program is the most in depth cave
diving program on the market. Divers will complete
12 training dives.
NAUI Cave Diver
Level II:
Similar Skills and Standards as Cave L1, with Greater
Skill Refinement and addtional timed drills and task
loading. Multiple navigational decisions on cave dives
with staged cylinders, dive planning with mandatory
decompression will also be covered.
Cave 2 Students need to be certified
in advanced nitrox/decompression techniques, or can
take tihs program in conjunction with the cave 2 program.
NAUI Cave Diver Level III:
Similar Skills and Standards as L1 and L2, with the
addition of divers being qualified to plan and execute
extended penetration cave dives requiring extended
decompression. Course focusses on the dive team planning
aspects of extended decompression cave diving. Decompression
Diving, DPV, Multiple Stage Bottle manipulation, Mixed
gas diving with Helium based mixes and more.. |
