From NAUI Divemaster to PADI IDC???

[Flfiremedic]

Check with the people running the PADI course, I'm sure that they'd love to corrupt a promising young NAUI leader.

Thanks Dude was having a bad day...you cheered me right up!

 

[cflJason]

Nah, I don't know anything specific about NAUI skills vs. PADI I'm afraid. Just guesses, maybe some skills like snorkel-regulator exchange on the surface maybe? It would be quite interesting (hey, I'm a geek) to compare the skills. Is there any way a non-NAUI instructor can lay their hands on a NAUI manual?

I'm actually a little surprised that NAUI teaches the CESA.... most of the more forward thinking agencies seem to be sloughing in out of the curriculum. It's not even explicit in the RSTC skills list, it's just stated "Out-of-air emergency alternatives, including at least one dependent procedure and one independent procedure".

One that immediately comes to mind is the fin pivot.

 

[Thalassamania]

I'm actually a little surprised that NAUI teaches the CESA.... most of the more forward thinking agencies seem to be sloughing in out of the curriculum. It's not even explicit in the RSTC skills list, it's just stated "Out-of-air emergency alternatives, including at least one dependent procedure and one independent procedure".

Most of what you are calling the "forward thinking" agencies have gutted their curriculum till there's little left. The RSTC standards are just the common denominator of what's left after all the deletions.

 

[AndyNZ]

Most of what you are calling the "forward thinking" agencies have gutted their curriculum till there's little left. The RSTC standards are just the common denominator of what's left after all the deletions.

That's a little harsh. I was mostly thinking of BSAC, who are probably still one of the more rigorous training agencies around.

From what I understand of NAUI, there's a lot more rescue skills in the introductory courses - I would have thought that of any agency they would be keen to drop the CESA, recognising it as unsafe and downright unecessary. Obviously wrong, though.

 

[tflaris]

Check with the people running the PADI course, I'm sure that they'd love to corrupt a promising young NAUI leader.

Friends don't let friends become PADi Instructors. Just say no. Academic Freedom is a beautiful thing. Don't settle for less.

The flame throwing can now begin.

 

[Thalassamania]

From what I understand of NAUI, there's a lot more rescue skills in the introductory courses - I would have thought that of any agency they would be keen to drop the CESA, recognising it as unsafe and downright unecessary. Obviously wrong, though.

... in your opinion. I do not think that it is either.