NAUI Info Needed Please

[BFD807]

Howdy all,
I have been a certified diver for over 20 years so this question is for all the NAUI instructors that taught way back in the stone age . Do any of y'all remember how many dives were required for for each Level? OW I, OW II, AOW, I had a logbook for just my training dives, but sometime after 2002, my log book went missing. I have 14 missing dives just from training and would like to at least have them logged in my Main Logbook so everything is together in one place. I know approximate dates,and where I dove, just want to make sure my count is correct. Any and all help is very appreciated.

John

 

[BoltSnap]

OWI = 5

OWII = 6

NAUI doesn't have AOW, at that time it had "Advanced Diver" which was the third course up from OWII. I think it required 8 dives but not sure at all.

 

[SOFDiver]

Per my 1996 NAUI S&P manual:
Scuba Diver Course required 5 dives.
Advanced Scuba Diver Course required 6 open water dives, with deep, night/low viz, and navigation being mandatory.
You must have been certified prior to 1996 if you did OW1 and 2.

 

[BoltSnap]

You must have been certified prior to 1996 if you did OW1 and 2.

Probably mid to late 80's.

 

[BFD807]

thank y'all very much,
I was certified in early 93, it took me all of 6 months to get to advanced, then when I was working on my DM, Naui got rid of OW II, but I still have my card, I can say I did it the hard way lol
I know it was only 14 dives I was missing but it makes me feel better that my logbook has all my dives now.

 

[japan-diver]

20+ year NAUI Instructor/Course Director Trainer, I still have my Openwater I card somewhere in an old log book. If you did the the OW I it was 5 dives but many folks did 4 scuba dives and the 5th dive was a free dive at that time we had more skin diving skills to complete and could credit those to a dive if completed in open water and not the pool or confined. OWII was a six dive course very similar to the one being taught today - (this course was later renamed Advanced Scuba Diver), the old Advanced course if you did this back then is now called Master Scuba Diver and has a minimum of 8 dives although most instructors add a few more here as there are numerous requirements to meet here. The old Master Scuba Diver course is the one that was eliminated - this course had timed swims and strict watermanship evaluations to meet the requirements the academics were mostly a review of the Advanced course materials so the main difference between the old Advanced and Master were the timed swims, timed tired diver tows etc...

So to summarize:
Old Course New Equivalent
NAUI Open Water I - NAUI Scuba Diver
NAUI Open Water II - NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver
NAUI Advanced Diver - NAUI Master Scuba Diver
NAUI Master Scuba Diver - (if you earned this card you can order to replace but not current class is equivalent) NAUI Gold Master Scuba Diver

 

[BoltSnap]

I go way back with NAUI, >35 years. My first card says: "Basic Diver." I don't remember how many dives it required.

 

[CT-Rich]

My 1980 NAUI card said "SCUBA DIVER" on it. In 1983 I took an Assistant Instructor course, nothing in between. We laughed when we heard they were talking about adding additional certifications. Who is going to to pay to get experience you get by doing? Night certified? Boat Certified? I think it was 3 or 5 dives to get the Scuba Cert, but it was 10 classroom and ten pool sessions. swimming tests etc. The last class (or two, possibly) we used horse collar BCs, that was all the buoyancy training we got, no LP inlator, just add some air, let some out.... fill it on the surface.

The AI course was lots of pool skills make all the skills look easy, etc. You had to be able to swim the length of regulation pool underwater with no gear. Our pool was too short so we had to turn around and swim 5 yards back. I failed that skill because of a raging sinus infection, you only got two tries. Generally, if you could clear your ears you were in the water. I have no idea how much of this was the instructor and how much was the agency. Interestingly, I took the class with a girl who would later marry the son in the Walker Spy ring. Nice girl, cute, felt bad for her when I found out....