Unit 1: Dive Safety Through Education

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Unit 1 Dive Safety Through Education

• National Association of Underwater Instructors
• NAUI Leadership Training
• Developing Leaders
• Personal Leadership Style and Values
• NAUI Values of Leadership and Instruction
• The NAUI Mission
• The NAUI Credo

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Student PerformanceBy the end of the lesson you
will be able to

• Describe the NAUI organization and its culture.
• State the Associations motto and training
  philosophy.
• List NAUIs shared values.

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National Association Of Underwater Instructors

• NAUI corporate structure and culture
• A worldwide, democratic, membership association
• Membership rights and privileges
• Be familiar with Section 1 of the NAUI SP Manual
• Membership agreement
• As a member, you accept responsibility to
  maintain NAUIs reputation and quality

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NAUI Leadership Training

• Primary goal of leadership training
• To become a NAUI member and a successful leader
• Four aspects of leadership training
• Acquire diving knowledge and skills
• Develop an effective personal leadership style
• Benefit from evaluation and coaching
• Gain experience under guidance of a NAUI
  Instructor
• License to learn

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Developing Leaders

• The making of a leader
• No one can make another a leader
• Leadership traits are personal
• The role of training
• To help you identify and
• develop your leadership traits
• Candidates responsibility

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Personal Leadership Style and Values

• Conscious behavior is based on values, and
  personality
• Attitudes govern our behavior
• Your concern for divers in your care
• Diver safety is paramount
• Published standards
• Are minimum goals
• Are goals to be mastered and exceeded

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NAUI Values Of Leadership and Instruction

• Superior Leadership and Instructor Training
• Democratic Association of Equals
• Trust and Respect
• The Loved One concept
• Academic Freedom
• Dynamic Growing Body of Knowledge and Skills
• Ever Improving Leadership and Instructor Training

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The NAUI Mission

• To promote, through quality education, the
  techniques necessary for the general public to
  participate safely in underwater activities, and
  to educate those people in the preservation and
  protection of our underwater environment
  throughout their diving careers.

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The NAUI Credo

• We believe
• an individual should not be qualified as a NAUI
  Instructor unless those empowered to qualify the
  person would allow that person to teach their
  loved ones to dive.
• that the leadership power in NAUI should be
  controlled by a democratic process.
• NAUI Instructors are qualified professionals who
  educators who are granted academic freedom to
  teach diving in any reasonable manner as long as
  NAUI standards and policies are met.

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The NAUI Credo (continued)

• We believe
• NAUI Instructors may exceed NAUI standards in
  ways that do not jeopardize student safety.
  Examples include exceeding the number of required
  open water dives or increasing the academic
  content.
• in the principle of continuing education for
  divers.
• diving instructors should be constantly improving
  the courses they teach.
• in the educational concept of conditioning, i.e.,
  the over learning of skills.

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The NAUI Credo (continued)

• We believe
• any individual that possesses the mental and
  physical abilities to dive and the desire to do
  so can be taught to dive by a patient, capable
  NAUI Instructor.
• that developmental skills, exercises and games
  that do not have a direct application in actual
  diving can be used effectively during training.
• those that wish to learn to dive must have good
  water skills.

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The NAUI Credo (continued)

• We believe
• that divers should not be totally dependent upon
  their equipment for their safety.
• anyone certified as a diver should be able to
  perform the basics of a rescue of a buddy.
• that standards, requirements and student needs
  are the governing factors controlling
  instruction.
• that it is more important to train a few students
  well than to certify many marginally trained
  divers. We further believe that educational
  quality must never be sacrificed for economic
  reasons.
• in student-centered learning.

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The NAUI Credo (continued)

• We believe
• that the responsibility for safety should be
  gradually transferred from the instructor to the
  student.
• businesses and individuals are entitled to do
  business with whomever they choose and we do not
  demand that they be exclusive to NAUI. We do,
  however, expect NAUI members to represent and
  support the NAUI organization to at least the
  same extent they support any other organization.
• instructors and dive centers should profit from
  their instructional activities.

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The NAUI Credo (continued)

• We believe
• in the traditional concept of the buddy system
  for diving.
• that proficiency in the skills of sharing air are
  essential to diver safety.
• that it is the duty of the officers, directors
  and employees of the association to meet the
  needs of the membership.
• it is the responsibility of every NAUI member to
  ensure the quality of NAUI instruction.
• every member has an obligation to report
  violations of NAUI standards.

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End of Unit 1 Dive Safety Through Education

• National Association of Underwater Instructors
• NAUI Leadership Training
• Developing Leaders
• Personal Leadership Style and Values
• NAUI Values of Leadership and Instruction
• The NAUI Mission
• The NAUI Credo

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Student PerformanceBy the end of the lesson you
will be able to

• Describe the NAUI organization and its culture.
• State the Associations motto and training
  philosophy.
• List NAUIs shared values.