twashowich
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NOAA certified so you can dive off of the NOAA vessels and go out with them? I have been told that that is the only way to get on one of the research vessels...
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Anyone know how to get
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Big problem is the first requirement: NOAA employee
Although there appears to be some leeway in the Equivalent certification section near the bottom of the page. Check it out and let us know.
Big problem is the first requirement: NOAA employee
Although there appears to be some leeway in the Equivalent certification section near the bottom of the page. Check it out and let us know.
KeysCuda
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NOAA can clear a diver to dive off their boats, as a 'guest' or 'visitor' or something.
I've had this clearance, whatever it's called. There's a limit to the number of times you can do it within a year, a dozen or so.
To qualify, you have to submit a copy of your c-card, and a "diving resume." Maybe I had to do that in lieu of a logbook (mine disappeared many years ago and I meant to start a new one but never did, and since most of the operations I dive with already know me...)
And, most bothersome, you have to submit a physicians' form (supplied by NOAA) vouching that you probably won't stroke out on their boat.
And you have to give them a new physical form every year. Now as a middle-aged guy I try to keep up with my physicals, but yiminy. I don't have the clearance currently because of this.
I'm sure there are other limits on what dives and activity that you, as a non-NOAA diver, can do off their boats, like no "working diver" activity. But I've been to 100 feet with them, and taken pictures, so I was happy.
I know a Keys dive-shop owner and sanctuary volunteer who got tired of the annual guest-diver renewal so she checked into seeing what it would take to become NOAA certified. Her conclusion: Forget about that; it's insane!
I've had this clearance, whatever it's called. There's a limit to the number of times you can do it within a year, a dozen or so.
To qualify, you have to submit a copy of your c-card, and a "diving resume." Maybe I had to do that in lieu of a logbook (mine disappeared many years ago and I meant to start a new one but never did, and since most of the operations I dive with already know me...)
And, most bothersome, you have to submit a physicians' form (supplied by NOAA) vouching that you probably won't stroke out on their boat.
And you have to give them a new physical form every year. Now as a middle-aged guy I try to keep up with my physicals, but yiminy. I don't have the clearance currently because of this.
I'm sure there are other limits on what dives and activity that you, as a non-NOAA diver, can do off their boats, like no "working diver" activity. But I've been to 100 feet with them, and taken pictures, so I was happy.
I know a Keys dive-shop owner and sanctuary volunteer who got tired of the annual guest-diver renewal so she checked into seeing what it would take to become NOAA certified. Her conclusion: Forget about that; it's insane!
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twashowich
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I think because I am a Georgia Aquarium Diver...I may have cross certification that allows me to dive on a NOAA vessel...I need to check that out...
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