Unit 1: Dive Safety Through Education

1. 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

2. Student Performance:By the end of the lesson you will be able to: • Describe the NAUI organization and its culture. • State the Association’s motto and training philosophy. • List NAUI’s shared values.

3. 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 S&P Manual • Membership agreement • As a member, you accept responsibility to maintain NAUI’s reputation and quality

4. 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

5. 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 • Candidate’s responsibility

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. End of Unit 1Dive 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

16. Student Performance:By the end of the lesson you will be able to: • Describe the NAUI organization and its culture. • State the Association’s motto and training philosophy. • List NAUI’s shared values.