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NAUI Diving courses in Kumamoto |
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National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), has been created in
1960 in Houston, Texas, and is now headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
NAUI's mission as a non for profit association is to safely educate the
general public to underwater activities and develop and awareness and
protection of the underwater environment. NAUI is one the most respected diving education agency worldwide and its members are teaching and supervising scuba and skin diving activities in more than 50 countries. As per its mottos "Dive Safety Through Education" and "Quality Difference", NAUI members are training fewer but better trained divers, with a system which has been adopted in the States by the NASA to train its astronauts for EVAs in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, and various search and rescue teams. Many NAUI Instructors are scholars involved in diving clubs within universities, and numerous NAUI members have an extensive teaching and pedagogical background, giving the association its strong educational and quality training emphasis. |
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NAUI Instructor in the Kumamoto region will be
Frederick
"Freddy" Claro, a French national, bilingual English, NAUI
Course Director, who have been living in Asia for well over a decade. He
is a diver since 1981, and a dive professional since 1989. His career
brought him to the best places in the world and he extensively taught
scuba diving in the Red Sea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Europe, before
coming and settling in Kumamoto, where his wife Jennifer is a well known
English teacher (and also a NAUI Instructor Trainer). Freddy has trained over 1,200 students worldwide, among them over 300 Instructors since 1992. He is the founder of Consult Dive International in Asia (1995), and the co-founder of the European Diving Career Institute in Varna, Bulgaria (2000). He is also a keen and well informed online dive travel agent. He is the recipient of the NAUI Pacific rim 2000 Outstanding Service Award, and the NAUI Worldwide 2001 Outstanding Service Award, and he is one of the most experienced diving instructors in activity in Asia. The following courses are available through Freddy in Kumamoto from May to November: |
| -Passport Diver Program: Try scuba diving in a pool environment or with the 2 ocean dives passport program. An ideal solution to try scuba without getting involved in a long training process. This program is a non-certification program. |
| -Scuba
Diver Course: This is the first level of certification. Learn how to
dive safely, with fun and confidence in 2 week ends. The training
involves classroom academics, pool or confined water training and 5
training dives in the ocean. A basic rescue training is part of the
course. All educational materials and equipment are included in the
course package. Why spend 4 days of your valuable holiday in training, as you could become a certified diver here in Kumamoto! We will send you diving in the best places in the world after your successful training. Price: 61,000 Yen including taxes, all training, certification fees, equipment, all training dives and transportation. VIP Private, one on one course: 75,000 Yen |
| -Advanced
Course: This course teaches the novice diver or the certified diver
more in depth knowledge and practice of specific scuba diving
tasks. The course is task oriented, has no classroom session, no exam ,
and involved 6 ocean dives, teaching divers more about: underwater
navigation, night diving or limited visibility diving, deep diving,
underwater environment, rescue skills, search and recovery or underwater
photography. The Advanced training is the most fun way to gain
experience and increased knowledge in a controlled environment. Price: 47,000 Yen, all inclusive. |
| -Rescue
Course: Learn First Aid / CPR, and rescue skills in two week ends.
This integrated course is a must for certified divers who are willing to
learn how to prevent problems and accident, and also how to deal with
different situations involving divers, equipment and the natural
environment. The course is divided in academic sessions and open water
training. NAUI rescue divers qualify for leadership training after the
Master Diver Course. Price: 52,000 Yen with First Aid / CPR training and certification, all inclusive. |
| -Master
Scuba Diver: This course is run over three week ends or more, and is
the highest level of achievement as a NAUI diver before professional
levels. This great course is designed to develop the general knowledge
of the diver to a professional level. In depth academic lectures are
done on the following topics: physics, physiology, equipment,
environment, decompression theory and dive tables, safety procedures,
rescue skills. The water training involves: underwater navigation, night
dive, deep simulated decompression dive, advanced rescue techniques,
skin diving, search and recovery dive, light salvage and underwater
environment. The NAUI Master Scuba Diver Course is the very best non professional course the recreational diving industry has to offer today, and all graduates will achieve a very high degree of self accomplishment. Price: 62,500 Yen, all inclusive, 8 training dives. |
| -Specialty Courses: We offer the following specialty courses: Night Diver, Deep Diver, Underwater Navigator, Underwater Environmentalist, Scuba Rescue, Oxygen Provider. |
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NAUI Leadership Courses, Become a Professional |
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courses are Freddy's specialty, he has trained more professionals than
most instructors altogether. He is putting the essence of over 20 years
of diving in his teaching, and being trained by Freddy is not only an
achievement, but it becomes a way of life. No shortcut, strict but fair
training is what it is all about, joining one of these leadership
courses will bring you to the best you can be. Freddy's training is straight to the point and is a refined in depth rehearsal of the very fundamentals of scuba diving until complete mastery. |
| -Assistant Instructor:
Get trained to assist instructors in their training. It is a great step
towards your own instructor training. The course covers academics,
pedagogy, watermanship and stamina, training dives, pool sessions and
assisting Freddy's courses. Price: 63,000 Yen, extra: NAUI member fees payable to NAUI (90 US$) |
| -Divemaster: This is
the ultimate level before the instructor rating. A NAUI Divemaster has
all competency of an Assistant Instructor, but he / she also trained to
independently supervise all diving activities as a complete
professional. The Divemaster can assist instructors, and also lead and
guide divers underwater. The NAUI divemaster is the preferred rating to
train as an Instructor although Assistant Instructors can also join the
Instructor Training Course or ITC. Price: 74,000 Yen, all inclusive. Extra: 90 US$ NAUI membership fees payable to NAUI. |
| -Instructor Training
Course: Please click here for more
information on this training. Next ITC in Kumamoto: April 2005, week ends format. |
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