The Naui Master Diver book is a good read if one wants to do some revision. I think if you can pass the exam, the real world meaning is that you have mastered your past advanced open water recreational diving material.
No harm in continuing one's education.
Hi Peter! Woohoo Go NAUI!
Just in case someone is interested in some NAUI Master Diver details that hasn't already taken the course, here you go:
It's a minimum of 8 dives. The course's required dives include emergency procedures & rescue, decompression diving, adv limited vis or night, adv u/w nav, and search & recovery w/ light savage. Additional electives can be an environmental study, hunting & collecting, gas planning, surf & shore, or another special interest.
It's a customizable course with special study projects suited to your goals in diving. It's also mandatory for the leadership path because it's very heavy in academics. So, PADI waits until instructor to teach the candidates the rest of physics, physiology, equipment, environment, adv rescue, etc.-- so-called "instructor level academics". NAUI teaches these academics at the non-professional level. Some divers have no desire to go pro, but want to learn more diving this is the course for them. I know I run into some PADI instructors that had no desire to actually teach, they just wanted to take more diving courses and learn everything they could, but your liability goes up big time once you hold a professional level cert. Moreover, we don't want to bog down leadership candidates with learning this information they are supposed to have already mastered so that they can focus on true leadership (guiding, supervision, group control, demonstration, evaluating, counseling, (de)briefs, lesson planning, scheduling, etc...and of course learning how to teach).
The text is awesome, also has DVD (for couch potatoes
) & eLearning. It runs circles around the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving; relevant information and easy to understand. I read the Encyclopedia of Recreation Diving when I did my PADI IDC, but I kind of forgot about it since then. Last year I was evaluating an instructor's Charles Law presentation. It was so bad it was laughable. So, after the candidate pointed out where he got the information from in the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving; no wonder he was confused, it's illustrated so much clearer in the NAUI text.
You can take the master diver course after the advanced/specialty dive sampling course.
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oh, and there's no swim tests in the master diver course....