What is your highest certification?

[MichaelMc]

For NAUI, the MSD cert is a prerequisite for any leadership cert. Or at least passing the MSD exam with 75% is, as NAUI MSD contains all the leadership physics/physiology etc. So MSD (exam) before DM is the only option.

 

[BlueTrin]

Master Scuba Diver
Gain the in-depth knowledge and experience that will distinguish you as a leader in any diving club or group. Thrill to the adventure of open-water dives in settings that will test skills and expand your diving capabilities and experience. Your success allows you to proudly carry the most coveted and respected certification card in recreational diving – the NAUI Master Scuba Diver card.

During training, students will engage in a minimum of eight open-water dives, including the following required dives:

• Emergency procedures and rescue
• Deep/simulated decompression diving
• Limited visibility or night diving
• Underwater navigation – search and recovery – light salvage

You may also choose from many different dives for your elective dives, such as:

• Skin diving
• Environmental study or survey
• Air consumption (practical application)
• Boat diving

Individuals ages 15+ and who have a NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification (or its equivalent), may enroll in the Master Scuba Diver course.

Get Started
The NAUI Master Scuba Diver course is for certified divers who desire additional training or orientation to a variety of diving sites and conditions. Divers must be a minimum of 15 years of age, in good health and must be previously certified as a NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver or equivalent. To enroll, find a NAUI Training Center or instructor near you by visiting the NAUI Dive Center and Professional Locator.

What’s Next?
Increase your safety and readiness as a diver by enrolling in a NAUI Rescue Scuba Diver or NAUI First Aid course. Successful completion of the NAUI Master Scuba Diver course is a prerequisite for enrollment in the NAUI FIT course in preparation for professional membership as a NAUI Leader or Instructor. Share your passion. Become a NAUI dive leader or instructor today!

Master Scuba Diver™
Continuing Education
Join the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.
Description
Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving and live the dive life as a PADI Master Scuba Diver. The Master Scuba Diver rating places you in an elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training. Fewer than two percent of divers ever achieve this rating. When you flash your Master Scuba Diver card, people know that you’ve spent time underwater in a variety of environments and had your share of dive adventures.

Every diver, who is at least 12 years old, should aim for Master Scuba Diver.

The path starts with earning a PADI Open Water Divercertification, followed by PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certifications). You also need to earn five PADI Specialty Divercertifications and have logged a minimum of 50 dives.

Check with your PADI Dive Center or Resort about starting your journey toward becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver and continuing your diving adventures.

SSI MASTER DIVER

SSI’s Master Diver rating is one of the most elite ratings in diving today. Divers that have completed this level have combined the knowledge, skills and experience to truly call themselves Master Divers.To earn the certification for Master Diver, you must complete 4 specialty courses, Diver Stress & Rescue and have done a total of 50 dives.
Here are the options to select from:

Navigation
Deep Diving
EAN Nitrox

Boat Diving
Perfect Buoyancy
Search & Recovery

Dry Suit Diving
Night & Limited Visibility
Wreck Diving

Shark Diving
Underwater Photography
Equipment Techniques

Waves, Tides & Currents
Diver Stress & Rescue

Now you can fight ...

 

[Kharon]

I Haven't take a solo course yet, but I have read the SDI course book. It pales in comparison to the NAUI MSD book.

Sorry. Was thinking of PADI not ...

 

[divad]

My highest certification is "God Master of the Universe."

 

[divad]

God has to answer to somebody..................right?

 

[divad]

I'm here to help....

 

[divad]

Hello, Hello.....

 

[divad]

Is anybody out there?

 

[TMHeimer]

Yeah, I had to post.
NAUI MSD: Minimum of EIGHT dives. More can be done of course. Same theory knowledge as PADI DM course.
PADI MSD: Rescue Diver & 5 specialties. Could be as many as 15 dives.

Negatives: NAUI: could only be the 8 dive minimum and 80% of the theory is stuff you probably won't use (like PADI DM
and my 2 college degrees in music).

PADI: You can take maybe up to or close to 5 specialties that don't even INCLUDE any diving, making the
MSD a joke.

Well, that keeps the thread going.....

 

[Superlyte27]

ANSI 98-01 Commercial Diver rated to 500'