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Who is NASE Worldwide?

 

The National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE Worldwide) is a training organization that provides state-of-the-art teaching materials, programs and leadership to scuba diving professionals around the world.

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NASE is the only scuba training organization to draw its extensive experience from the fields of commercial, recreational, technical and cave diver training. NASE’s parent company, Commercial Diving Academy, is the world’s largest commercial diving school. We strive to provide scuba training and instruction to fit any skill level - from beginning scuba lessons to online scuba certifications and master scuba diving instruction. Our goal is to change the way the world learns to scuba dive. We provide scuba training for the novice looking for scuba diving lessons as well as higher scuba training for the professional diver looking for rewarding careers in scuba diving.

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The National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE) Worldwide was founded in 1982.

Disclaimer: Course Fees as listed are the basic costs related to: the Instructor & certification. Additional cost(s) depend on the individual student's specific needs for room/food/transport. Whether the student wants or needs shore or boat diving.

And if there is need for training dates outside of the calendar schedule.

NASE RECREATIONAL and TECHNICAL COURSES

NASE OPEN WATER DIVER

-- The first diver certification for buddy diving

without professional supervision, max 20m --

The NASE Open Water Diver course consists of:

  • Self Study: Using the convenient NASE eLearning program.

  • Skill Development: Generally six to ten hours spent in a swimming pool with your instructor.

  • Open-Water Training Dives:Put your new skills to work while logging over 100 minutes of bottom time with your instructor.

We provide 12 hours of practical & pool training, prior to the ocean dives. Pool-Practical training is limited to 4 students. And we provide at least 5 open water training dives, plus Snorkel dives.

This course includes at least 5 ocean dives, plus Snorkeling & Computer Diver certifications.
RM 1400

NASE COMPUTER DIVER

Most new dive students today, are doing their Open Water certification dives, using a computer. This is great, but often the dive student leaves the Open Water Diver course without a complete and thorough understanding of how computers work, their functions, and how they may be used most effectively. This course provides the diver with the knowledge and training to make optimal use of dive computers. And often this course helps the diver to make an educated choice when it's time to buy their own computer. 

This course is usually paired along with another 
certification course.
RM 290

ENRICHED AIR NITROX

The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox program will teach you how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen. Diving with enriched air can increase your no-decompression limits, increase your safety, and reduce the required length of your surface intervals when compared to air. You will earn the SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification after completing this program.

This course is usually paired along with another 
certification course.
RM 490

ADVANCED OPEN

WATER DIVER

Be More, Do More: Imagine exploring a shipwreck nearly 30 m/100 ft below the surface or discovering how different the underwater world is at night. 

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The NASE Advanced Open Water Diver course lets you:

  • Gain additional knowledge and skills beyond those covered in entry-level scuba training.

  • Receive an introduction to several specialty diving activities.

  • Qualify to plan and conduct dives, with a similarly qualified buddy, to depths of 30 m/100 ft, in conditions similar to or better than those in which the divers were trained.

  • Gain additional dive experience under the guidance and supervision of an NASE Worldwide Instructor.

This is a two day course, with 5 dives. Unless the student is new to NASE, then there will be an additional day of pool training.
RM 1250
This is a four day course, usually conducted over two weekends (1st pool, 2nd ocean),
and includes DAN Basic Life Support and
DAN Oxygen Provider certifications.

NASE RESCUE DIVER

Be the Ultimate Dive Buddy: Beginning diver courses generally limit emergency skill training to self rescue and tired diver assists.

 

Why?

 

Beginning students lack sufficient knowledge, skill and experience to truly master complex rescue skills. There is simply not enough time in most beginning scuba courses to cover all the rescue and emergency management skills that every diver should have.

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This is why the Rescue Diver course provides important follow-on training. It covers:

  • Self-rescue and diver stress.

  • Dive first aid.

  • Swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques.

  • Emergency management and equipment.

  • Panicked diver response.

  • Underwater problem solving.

  • Missing diver procedures.

  • Surfacing the unconscious diver.

  • In-water rescue breathing protocols.

  • Egress (exits).

  • First aid procedures for pressure related accidents.

  • Dive accident scenarios.

  • The Rescue Diver course also helps you meet important prerequisites for Master Diver, Divemaster and other leadership-level courses.

RM 1850

NASE SPECIALTY COURSES

Boat Diving                            Night

Computer Diving                  Nitrox I & II

Digital Imaging                     Deep

Drift Diver                              Search & Recovery

Equipment                             Wreck

Naturalist                                Dry Suit

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After completion of OWD AOWD Rescue & a number of specialties, the Diver will qualify for NASE MASTER DIVER

RM Varies with number of dives 

xTEK BASICS & RESCUE

Get Ready: This course provides the fundamental skills you need to take part in other xTek programs. You’ll learn both the equipment and many of the procedures required for decompression diving.

The NASE xTek training progression requires a high degree of competency in skills such as equipment handling, buoyancy control, dive planning and teamwork, which this course helps provide. 

 

This course does not cover actual decompression and/or deep diving but instead focuses on meeting the prerequisites for the next level of training.

RM 

xTEK 45

45m - Single Gas Switch - up to 100% O2

Get Started: This course provides the necessary skills and knowledge for planning and conducting decompression dives to a maximum depth of 45 m/150 ft. Graduates will be able to utilize back gas mixtures of air/nitrox not exceeding a PO2 of 1.4 ATA and utilize oxygen-enriched mixes up to 100 percent for accelerated decompression. This course meets the prerequisites for NASE xTek 60. Training covers topics such as:

  • Decompression models

  • Decompression sickness (DCS)

  • Decompression dive planning

  • Use of enriched oxygen mixtures

  • Gas requirements

Training also includes a practical application dive executing decompression dives with one decompression cylinder.

RM 
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