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| What do the best leaders do? |
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| They plan and train for their roles, and are organized and punctual. |
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| What understanding must leaders have? |
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| People live within their own personal limitations. |
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| What are the THREE fundamentals emphasized in NAUI? |
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Knowledge
Experience
Ability |
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| What is your strongest and most reliable communication tool? |
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| Personal example (mistakes you've made, etc) |
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| What is required for those going through formal instructor training? |
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| They must continue formal training in the fields of diving, diving safety, and the aquatic environment in order to maintain active status. |
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| Knowledge is gained through.. |
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| formal study, practice, and experience. |
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| Naui Assistant Instructor |
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| Enhance individual development and group safety, as well as extend an instructor's span of control by exercising additional vigilance, and can often alert instructors to students' needs before they become problems. |
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| NAUI Skin Diving Instructor |
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| Qualified to independently teach and certify skin diving students. |
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| Qualified to organize and supervise dives for certified divers, and may also assist NAUI instructors during certification training. |
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| To promote, plan, organize and conduct recreational diving activities for certified individuals and groups. |
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| What is SAS and how is it learned? |
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| Scuba Air Snorkeling (SAS) is something that is just gone over in the "pre-dive" briefing with other common sense safety precautions. |
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| How is the academic curriculum run for teaching skin diving? |
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Definition
| The curriculum may be presented in any appropriate order as long as the required elements are addressed. |
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| What risk awareness steps must be taken when dealing with new skin divers? |
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| Medical contraindications must be explained completely, and potential students with prohibitive medical conditions may be turned away if necessary. |
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| What dive equipment is used for a skin dive? |
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| Students select, use, and care for their mask, snorkel, fins, personal flotation device (BC), wetsuit, and weight belt. |
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| Since instructors often work with younger people in skin diving classes... |
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| It is especially important to progress developmentally from simple to more challenging skills. |
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| Keep ________ to a minimum and mazimize ___________ and ___________ in skin diving. |
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| Keep conversation to a minimum and maximize participation and activity. |
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| What three different ratings can skin divers have? |
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Definition
Skin Diver certification - requires two openwater dives
Junior Skin diver - no required openwater 8-12yrs
Snorkeling Recognition Program - no required open water dives either 5+ yrs |
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| With one active status NAUI instructor present in a Scuba Diver course what is the class size limited to? |
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| What can a NAUI instructor influence an assistant to do through their skills, attitudes, and enthusiasm for diving and all it entails? |
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| To pursue NAUI leadership training. |
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Term
| What is the singular position of assistants? |
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Definition
| To serve as a liason between dive classes and instructors. The conversations may occur in an individual or small group tutoring session, or even outside of class time. |
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| What should an assistant assemble? |
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Definition
| They may assemble a collection of pens, pencils, white board markers and eraser, grease pencils and overhead projector actates, spare projector bulbs, extension cord, electrical plug adapter, pointer, writing paper, paper towels, facial tissues, and vending machine change. |
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| What may an assistant teach during academic classes? |
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Definition
| Any topic for which they have previously demonstrated competence, or as they develop, while supervised by a NAUI Instructor. |
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| What is the most valuable aid an assistant has to offer to an instructor? |
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Definition
| They can recognize potential problems and if a problem did occur, keen awareness on an assistant's part will detect them early so they can be corrected before they escalate. |
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| What is one of a useful assistant's primary duties? |
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| What does the NAUI Dive-master cert mean? |
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| Having earned the qualifications to assume independent leadership, diving community's respect for NAUI, and for the individual's evident competency as a highly-trained, expert diver. |
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| In what way does a DM assume direct responsibility for certified divers? |
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| DMs rely on their own judgment, experience and professionalism. |
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| What is the max number of participants per DM? |
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| The max number must be based on how many divers can be reasonably handled with the level of care expected of a NAUI leader. |
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| What are the ultimate criteria for NAUI diving activities? |
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Definition
| Safey and professional responsibility |
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| What skill should a DM possess in order to help divers avoid problems through individual conseling, fostering safety through achieving group senses and managing risk? |
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| What additional training would a DM need in certain areas? |
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| Tech diving, air compressor operation & maintenance, breathing cylinders, and filling/gas blending equipment. |
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-Conduct pre-dive briefings that incisively cover hazards and risk avoidance.
-Conduct pre-dive equpiment checks.
-Help divers perform weighting/buoyancy checks.
-Help divers prevent or resolve problems.
-Guide certified divers at the surface and UW.
-Effectively manage or personally respond to diving emergencies. |
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| To what does a great deal of DM's leadership go to? |
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Definition
| Into the simple logistics of organizing and assembling divers. |
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| What should DM's retain good records of? |
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| Good records of diving activities they conduct. |
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| What are the principle steps of planning? |
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Definition
| Decide objectives; Recognize staff and student/diver needs; ID equipment requirements; Schedule location, date and time; Gather information. |
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| What forms of emergency planning should a diver leader undergo? |
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Definition
| Leaders planning diving excursions to remote areas should inform participants in advance of the risk any lack of emergency treatment facilities may potentially create, so that they may make an informed decision on their participation. |
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| NAUI supports _______ as a ______ and ______ to safer diving. |
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Definition
| buddy diving; routine practice; aid |
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| How can we give students respect for diving knowledge? |
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Definition
| Educating divers about our values and attitudes, fostering an understanding and compliance through respect for knowledge. |
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| reasonable, explained, understood, and agreed by those affected |
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| What should instructor policies reflect? |
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| prudence and appeal to reason and logic |
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| Accepting NAUI leadership responsibility means that one fully commits to responding to divers' needs and helping to ensure their safe enjoyment of diving. |
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| Used to describe the absolute concentration NAUI members use to support that commitment, is a combination of experience, judgment, and knowledge. |
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| What is a specialized leadership hand signal? |
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| "Get with your buddy/Where is your buddy?" |
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| Whis recommended to have prepared before a briefing? |
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| Using a briefing OL with written notes and rehearsing |
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| What do all briefings have in common? |
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| Intros; Area and environmental orientation/facilities; Activity schedule; Performance requirements for training dives; Instructions; Communications; Emergency Procedure |
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| What are essential for a positive experience in shore diving. |
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| For the leader directing shore activities it's planning, preparation, and organization. |
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| What should night diving briefings include? |
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| Special info about light signals, procedures, and when to turn lights on/off. |
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| What is Limitied Vis. Diving? |
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| Horizontal Vis of 10' (3m) or less |
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| What is recommended when it comes to current diving? |
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Definition
| Inexperienced or less physically fit divers should be discouraged from entering the water if the current exceeds more than a 1/2 knot. |
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| What should leaders remind divers about in reference to currents? |
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| To note the direction of the current at depth and on the surface and begin their dives into the current so they may use it to their advantage at the end of the dive. |
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| The preferred method for Float Drift diving...? |
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| What is anchor line diving? |
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| A good technique when there is a strong surface current (>1.5 knots) or when the boat's windage will push the boat through otherwise still water. |
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| A ____ ______ _____ should be deployed from the boat. |
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| a dive to depths of 60-130'. |
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| Whatshould leaders encourage within deep diving? |
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| slow ascents, precationary deco stops, and careful air monitoring. |
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| Divers should be reminded to use distinguishing features on the wreck to aid in navigation. |
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