Question about Nitrox certifications

[TMHeimer]

I was just looking up about that I would consider it but not much to really see unless you go to the great lakes which I guess there is some wrecks but they are far down I believe.

Nothing to see!!?? What about all the rocks, sand, kelp, seaweed & flounders? Kidding aside, how will you continue diving other than getting a thick wetsuit or drysuit? If you do that maybe you can just postpone the 2 Nitrox dives until you get the suit (you probably have a year to complete the course). If you happened to be South again I wonder if you could complete the dives on a referral?

 

[Steve_C]

Three thoughts

Call up a couple dive shops and a couple resorts you like to dive. Tell them you have "NAUI recognition". Ask them if they will let you dive
Nitrox or get a Nitrox fill.

Watch out for idiots. More than once I have seen a dive shop empolyee reset the analyzer to 20.9 before it had been cleaned of a previous Nitrox fill.

You know it is time for Nitrox when your dives are getting to be NDL limited rather than air limited and you are not doing really deep recreational diving.

 

[windapp]

T

Watch out for idiots. More than once I have seen a dive shop empolyee reset the analyzer to 20.9 before it had been cleaned of a previous Nitrox fill.

I was taught to do the calibration myself.

---------- Post added June 8th, 2013 at 08:38 AM ----------

I had a choice of doing the course with my LDS for $200 no dives, or $200 elsewhere with two free dives. It was a bit of a no brainer. They did say that if I caught a cold, I could just analyze the mix as if I was going to do the dives.

 

[rongoodman]

I was just looking up about that I would consider it but not much to really see unless you go to the great lakes which I guess there is some wrecks but they are far down I believe.

There are all kinds of well preserved wrecks in your back yard, easily accessible to recreational divers. Consider a road trip to Kingston and the Thousand Islands region for an introduction.

 

[Damselfish]

The actual question seems to be answered in this old thread.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...ecognition-course-v-certification-course.html

 

[SeaCobra]

The NAUI EANx is taught as a certification course (with the dives) and as a recognition program (without the dives). Upon successful completion of the course or program, graduates are considered competent to utilize EANx (up to EAN40) in open water diving activities without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.

 

[mathauck0814]

Lots of great diving in the St. Lawrence seaway and in the Great Lakes. Seems a shame to pass up the opportunity to dive in your own back yard.

 

[Steve_C]

I was taught to do the calibration myself.

Me too and I do. This is why. My point was to not trust them if they say it is already calibrated to speed you up.

 

[TMHeimer]

The NAUI EANx is taught as a certification course (with the dives) and as a recognition program (without the dives). Upon successful completion of the course or program, graduates are considered competent to utilize EANx (up to EAN40) in open water diving activities without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.

So what is the practical difference between certification and recognition? "Activities and areas dived approximate those of training"-- What does that mean? If there were no Nitrox dives done what are those activities/areas? If you do the course with the dives does that mean you shouldn't expand on those activites/areas in which you were trained?

 

[rhwestfall]

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