denise
08-02-2009, 09:23 PM
NAUI Cave Diver Level II
with Dayo Scuba, Orlando, Florida
http://www.dayoscuba.com/images/agencies/nauiltec.gif (http://naui.org/technical_divers.aspx)
NAUI Cave Diver Level II provides the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize the risks while conducting longer penetration cave dives with staged cylinders involving complex navigation.
http://www.divetraining.net/pictures/2008_dec_5/PC043211.jpg
The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course is not intended to train divers for all facets of cave diving.
What it is:
The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course introduces the student to more complex planning and navigation in cave dives. Techniques learned during the previous levels of cave training are further reinforced, and complex navigation skills are emphasized.
Topics include advanced cave diving planning, recalculation dives, simple and complex traverse procedures, simple and complex circuits, jumping procedures, reverse jumping procedures, decompression diving and procedures, dissimilar tank turn around procedures, anti silting techniques, trim and equipment streamlining and line protocol and awareness. Accident analysis continues to form the basis of the training
Agencies we teach for:
NAUI TEC
Course Cost:
See Price List for Current Prices
This includes your cave manual, your dive training, certification card and photos (above and below water).
Other costs:
What not included is gear hire, gas fills, food, lodging, dive site fees & transportation. Dive site fees range from $10-$30, depending on site. We use Nitrox (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1291) for cave diving, which costs more than air.
A book called Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint For Survival by Sheck Exley is also required for all Cave students.
http://www.dayo.com/images/forum/basiccavediving.jpg
The more you read and prepare for your cave course, the more enjoyable it will be for you!
Gear you need to provide:
You will need to have the following gear:
* Mask (low volume)
* Fins (no split fins!, straps must be spring straps or taped)
* 2 regulators (must be high performance, and serviced within the last year)
* Long hose (7 footer) on one of your regulators
* Back plate and wing (with sufficient lift to manage tanks and stages)
* Wet/drysuit (Drysuit strongly recommended)
* Weights.
* Tanks must be doubled steel tanks with sufficient gas capacity to complete class dives and equipped with DIN valves and an isolating manifold.
http://www.cavediver.net/archives/Gear/images/cdf_gear_front500.JPG
Whatever tanks are chosen must supply sufficient gas to complete class dives.
*Bottom gas stage cylinder, properly rigged and labeled
*Decompression cylinder, properly rigged and labeled
* Primary Light, Canister Style Minimum 10 Watt HID
* Two Backup Lights
* A primary reel (at least 400 feet of line),
* Safety reel (minimum 75 feet of guideline)
* Two gap reels with at least fifteen 50 feet/15 meters of guideline.
* Computer or watch with tables
* Backup Bottom Timer/Depth/Computer
* Two line cutters (recommended one being a Z knife, placed on arm or chest)
* At least three line arrows and three cookies
* Wetnotes or Slate with pencil
Cave diving is a very demanding activity, and a gear intensive pursuit, your life and that of your buddy depends on the gear you use.
Choose your gear wisely!
If you have questions about gear choices call us! We have a wide selection of what is currently on the market, and have been training cave divers for many years, so we know whats good and whats not. Most local dive shops do not know what is appropriate gear for cave diving, and will sell you gear that has no place in a cave. Please call us in advance of your gear purchases.
What the course entails:
The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course is an academic and water based course that reinforces and expands on skills learned in previous caver/cave training.
You will be presented with various cave diving scenarios, and YOU are responsible for dive planning, gas management and dive execution. At this level, your cave diving skills are expected to be at a very high level and that is the principal criteria in determining your successful completion of this course.
How we teach it:
There are two parts, the academics and the “wet” portion.
Academics
The academics are done at home from your NAUI Cave Manual. This guide is very well structured, informative learning tool, and excellent alternative to multiple day or evening lectures.
After you work through the manual, you will do a written test, either at home or some point before your cave course begins. You need to achieve at least 80% on your written test to pass.
When you meet with your Instructor you will do lots of land drills:
- Proficiency in the use of spools and reels while handling a light.
- Team and line placement procedures
- Zero visibility/Touch contact procedures while following a line
- Air share procedures
- Emergency procedures for lost line and lost buddy
- Use of line markers
- Demonstration on basic cave survey techniques
You will also do a full review of the academics including (but not limited too):
- Accident Analysis
http://www.cavediver.net/pictures/gr/gr1plusb.JPG
- Psychological considerations of cave diving, these include stress, attitude, awareness, reaction to and building stress in self and others, stress management and philosophy.
- Guideline techniques, reel usage
- Equipment and equipment configuration
- Dive planning and gas management for back gas and stages
- Accident prevention procedures.
- Land owner relations and cave conservation
- Basic cave survey techniques
- Diving limitations including the rule of thirds & dissimilar tank sizes.
- The NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration (NTEC).
Wet Training
For the wet training, we typically do four days in the water (and at least 8 dives), and a series of vital skills such as:
- Effective communications with both light and hand signals.
- Show a high degree of awareness of the environment and dive team.
- Appropriate gas management
- Follow a line with your eyes closed, without a mask, using the touch contact method of communication.
- Running and following a safe guideline in caves
- Familiarization and exploration of caves
- Air sharing in a simulated out-of-air scenario during exit from cave.
- Lost line and lost diver procedures
- Use techniques for efficient conservation-minded propulsion techniques.
- A simulated primary regulatory failure, isolation, shutdown and switch over procedure within 15 seconds.
http://www.divetraining.net/pictures/2008_dec_5/PC043246.jpg
- The ability to turn 360 degrees in a stationary horizontal position, make smooth helicopter turns, and back up at least ten feet.
- Drop and recover stages, effective and timely switching over.
- Fundamentals of complex navigation.
- Cool and calm proficiency with a no lights, air share exit.
- Rescue of a diver simulating an oxygen seizure
All dives will be conducted using back mounted doubles, and two stages. Each dive will include a pre-dive briefing, bubble check, ‘s’ drill, gear matching, good dive team skills, safety stop and post dive critique. All of the skills mentioned above, must be completed while maintaining controlled buoyancy and trim using two stage cylinders.
Note: this is not a fully inclusive list, just an overview!
It should be noted that participation in this class does not guarantee certification.
As mentioned, at this level of training, it is expected that your cave diving skills are at a very high level.
Each student must do the required number of dives, all the skills, and demonstrate that they are comfortable with planning and executing safe and fun cave dives before they receive their certification card.
After successful completion of your academics and water work, you will awarded your certification as a NAUI Cave Diver Level II. This is your ticket to explore other caves, with other dive buddies. However, at Dayo Scuba we also “mentor” our students (at no extra cost), so you can gain additional experience in your favorite type of diving.
Age requirements:
You must be at least 18 years old to receive a NAUI Cave Diver Level II certification, there is no maximum age.
Minimum # of students per class:
We need 2 or more people to make a NAUI Cave Diver Level II class; private, one-on-one classes can be organized for a separate fee.
How many people are in each class?
Our NAUI Cave Diver Level II classes range in size, from 1-3 students (3 is the maximum per instructor). As we travel out of town for this class, usually there are at least two instructors, and another cavern/cave class going on at the same time as yours.
Schedule/Timing for NAUI Cave Diver Level II Course:
We train all the time, and have multiple instructors on staff (http://www.scubadiver.cc/instructors.htm), many full time, so we do weekday and weekend classes.
Call us or check out our Calendar (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/calendar.php?month=6&year=2009&c=1&do=displaymonth) for dates of upcoming courses.
How long does the course take?
Usually we complete the wet portion of the NAUI Cave Diver Level II in 4 days, with at least eight dives. If you already have the Apprentice rating (other agencies), your instructor may credit this towards the class, reducing the wet training days you need to complete.
Sometimes it is necessary to be in the water more than the required number of days because of learning difficulties or weather issues. If necessary, you can come back, free of charge, and join in another NAUI Cave Diver Level II to finish your training. We will also train you for any extra days you may need to get you properly certified. It is our mission to make you a safe and competent diver.
Where we do our course:
We usually do our NAUI Cave Diver Level II training in North Florida, the caves there are very beautiful, and ideal for training (Orange Grove Springs, Peacock Springs, Little River Springs). We are very limited to cave choice around the Orlando area. We dive at least three different caves for the NAUI Cave Diver Level II course.
Prerequisites for Course:
* Before participating in the NAUI Cave Diver Level II course, you will be asked to fill out a standard liability release form and a medical statement. If you answer YES to anything on the medical form we will require that you get it signed off by a physician.
* NAUI Cave Diver Level I (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1386) certification, or equivalent cave certification.
* NAUI Decompression Techniques Diver certification, or equivalent
* At least 100 logged dives
* At least 20 logged cave dives after certification as a NAUI Cave Level I Diver (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1386), or equivalent certification.
* http://www.dayoscuba.com/images/dan_insurance_sm.jpg (http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/) is required for all cave and technical classes.
Standards for the NAUI Cave Diver Level II Course:
* One cavern survey dive must be completed.
* Each diver will carry one staged bottom gas cylinder, properly rigged and labeled, during at least a portion of each dive.
* Each diver will carry a decompression cylinder, properly rigged and labeled, to an appropriate location for decompression.
* Minimum starting gas supply for all dives is 220 cubic feet.
* Maximum depth for NAUI Cave Diver Level II training dives will not exceed 130 feet/40 meters.
* All NAUI Cave Diver Level II training dives will be started with at least 20 feet of visibility.
* No major restrictions
* At no time, ever, will life support gear be removed from the diver while in the overhead environment.
* Penetrations are limited to 1/3 of a set of doubles.
What you can do afterwards:
* Dive, dive, dive in the MANY caves across the state of Florida, indeed anywhere!!!
* You will be a much safer, more competent and comfortable diver after completion of your NAUI Cave Diver Level II course.
* The safe diving practices learned during your NAUI Cave Diver Level II course will apply to all types of diving you do in the future, including open water recreational diving.
* Continue your diver training with more specialized training.
*The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course is a prerequisite to other cave courses like NAUI Cave Diver Level III (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1384).
To Register
Email/Call us (http://www.dayoscuba.com/contact.htm) or Sign up online now (https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=tj@dayo.com&undefined_quantity=1&item_name=NAUI+CAVE+II+Training+at+Dayo+Scuba,+Orl ando,+Florida&item_number=NAUI+II+Training&return=http://www.divetraining.net/)!!
Dayo Scuba hosts, sponsors and maintains the worlds leading Cave & Cavern Diving Forum. For more information and resources about cave diving, check it out:
http://dayo.com/images/cdf_std_logo.gif (http://www.cavediver.net)
with Dayo Scuba, Orlando, Florida
http://www.dayoscuba.com/images/agencies/nauiltec.gif (http://naui.org/technical_divers.aspx)
NAUI Cave Diver Level II provides the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize the risks while conducting longer penetration cave dives with staged cylinders involving complex navigation.
http://www.divetraining.net/pictures/2008_dec_5/PC043211.jpg
The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course is not intended to train divers for all facets of cave diving.
What it is:
The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course introduces the student to more complex planning and navigation in cave dives. Techniques learned during the previous levels of cave training are further reinforced, and complex navigation skills are emphasized.
Topics include advanced cave diving planning, recalculation dives, simple and complex traverse procedures, simple and complex circuits, jumping procedures, reverse jumping procedures, decompression diving and procedures, dissimilar tank turn around procedures, anti silting techniques, trim and equipment streamlining and line protocol and awareness. Accident analysis continues to form the basis of the training
Agencies we teach for:
NAUI TEC
Course Cost:
See Price List for Current Prices
This includes your cave manual, your dive training, certification card and photos (above and below water).
Other costs:
What not included is gear hire, gas fills, food, lodging, dive site fees & transportation. Dive site fees range from $10-$30, depending on site. We use Nitrox (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1291) for cave diving, which costs more than air.
A book called Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint For Survival by Sheck Exley is also required for all Cave students.
http://www.dayo.com/images/forum/basiccavediving.jpg
The more you read and prepare for your cave course, the more enjoyable it will be for you!
Gear you need to provide:
You will need to have the following gear:
* Mask (low volume)
* Fins (no split fins!, straps must be spring straps or taped)
* 2 regulators (must be high performance, and serviced within the last year)
* Long hose (7 footer) on one of your regulators
* Back plate and wing (with sufficient lift to manage tanks and stages)
* Wet/drysuit (Drysuit strongly recommended)
* Weights.
* Tanks must be doubled steel tanks with sufficient gas capacity to complete class dives and equipped with DIN valves and an isolating manifold.
http://www.cavediver.net/archives/Gear/images/cdf_gear_front500.JPG
Whatever tanks are chosen must supply sufficient gas to complete class dives.
*Bottom gas stage cylinder, properly rigged and labeled
*Decompression cylinder, properly rigged and labeled
* Primary Light, Canister Style Minimum 10 Watt HID
* Two Backup Lights
* A primary reel (at least 400 feet of line),
* Safety reel (minimum 75 feet of guideline)
* Two gap reels with at least fifteen 50 feet/15 meters of guideline.
* Computer or watch with tables
* Backup Bottom Timer/Depth/Computer
* Two line cutters (recommended one being a Z knife, placed on arm or chest)
* At least three line arrows and three cookies
* Wetnotes or Slate with pencil
Cave diving is a very demanding activity, and a gear intensive pursuit, your life and that of your buddy depends on the gear you use.
Choose your gear wisely!
If you have questions about gear choices call us! We have a wide selection of what is currently on the market, and have been training cave divers for many years, so we know whats good and whats not. Most local dive shops do not know what is appropriate gear for cave diving, and will sell you gear that has no place in a cave. Please call us in advance of your gear purchases.
What the course entails:
The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course is an academic and water based course that reinforces and expands on skills learned in previous caver/cave training.
You will be presented with various cave diving scenarios, and YOU are responsible for dive planning, gas management and dive execution. At this level, your cave diving skills are expected to be at a very high level and that is the principal criteria in determining your successful completion of this course.
How we teach it:
There are two parts, the academics and the “wet” portion.
Academics
The academics are done at home from your NAUI Cave Manual. This guide is very well structured, informative learning tool, and excellent alternative to multiple day or evening lectures.
After you work through the manual, you will do a written test, either at home or some point before your cave course begins. You need to achieve at least 80% on your written test to pass.
When you meet with your Instructor you will do lots of land drills:
- Proficiency in the use of spools and reels while handling a light.
- Team and line placement procedures
- Zero visibility/Touch contact procedures while following a line
- Air share procedures
- Emergency procedures for lost line and lost buddy
- Use of line markers
- Demonstration on basic cave survey techniques
You will also do a full review of the academics including (but not limited too):
- Accident Analysis
http://www.cavediver.net/pictures/gr/gr1plusb.JPG
- Psychological considerations of cave diving, these include stress, attitude, awareness, reaction to and building stress in self and others, stress management and philosophy.
- Guideline techniques, reel usage
- Equipment and equipment configuration
- Dive planning and gas management for back gas and stages
- Accident prevention procedures.
- Land owner relations and cave conservation
- Basic cave survey techniques
- Diving limitations including the rule of thirds & dissimilar tank sizes.
- The NAUI Technical Equipment Configuration (NTEC).
Wet Training
For the wet training, we typically do four days in the water (and at least 8 dives), and a series of vital skills such as:
- Effective communications with both light and hand signals.
- Show a high degree of awareness of the environment and dive team.
- Appropriate gas management
- Follow a line with your eyes closed, without a mask, using the touch contact method of communication.
- Running and following a safe guideline in caves
- Familiarization and exploration of caves
- Air sharing in a simulated out-of-air scenario during exit from cave.
- Lost line and lost diver procedures
- Use techniques for efficient conservation-minded propulsion techniques.
- A simulated primary regulatory failure, isolation, shutdown and switch over procedure within 15 seconds.
http://www.divetraining.net/pictures/2008_dec_5/PC043246.jpg
- The ability to turn 360 degrees in a stationary horizontal position, make smooth helicopter turns, and back up at least ten feet.
- Drop and recover stages, effective and timely switching over.
- Fundamentals of complex navigation.
- Cool and calm proficiency with a no lights, air share exit.
- Rescue of a diver simulating an oxygen seizure
All dives will be conducted using back mounted doubles, and two stages. Each dive will include a pre-dive briefing, bubble check, ‘s’ drill, gear matching, good dive team skills, safety stop and post dive critique. All of the skills mentioned above, must be completed while maintaining controlled buoyancy and trim using two stage cylinders.
Note: this is not a fully inclusive list, just an overview!
It should be noted that participation in this class does not guarantee certification.
As mentioned, at this level of training, it is expected that your cave diving skills are at a very high level.
Each student must do the required number of dives, all the skills, and demonstrate that they are comfortable with planning and executing safe and fun cave dives before they receive their certification card.
After successful completion of your academics and water work, you will awarded your certification as a NAUI Cave Diver Level II. This is your ticket to explore other caves, with other dive buddies. However, at Dayo Scuba we also “mentor” our students (at no extra cost), so you can gain additional experience in your favorite type of diving.
Age requirements:
You must be at least 18 years old to receive a NAUI Cave Diver Level II certification, there is no maximum age.
Minimum # of students per class:
We need 2 or more people to make a NAUI Cave Diver Level II class; private, one-on-one classes can be organized for a separate fee.
How many people are in each class?
Our NAUI Cave Diver Level II classes range in size, from 1-3 students (3 is the maximum per instructor). As we travel out of town for this class, usually there are at least two instructors, and another cavern/cave class going on at the same time as yours.
Schedule/Timing for NAUI Cave Diver Level II Course:
We train all the time, and have multiple instructors on staff (http://www.scubadiver.cc/instructors.htm), many full time, so we do weekday and weekend classes.
Call us or check out our Calendar (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/calendar.php?month=6&year=2009&c=1&do=displaymonth) for dates of upcoming courses.
How long does the course take?
Usually we complete the wet portion of the NAUI Cave Diver Level II in 4 days, with at least eight dives. If you already have the Apprentice rating (other agencies), your instructor may credit this towards the class, reducing the wet training days you need to complete.
Sometimes it is necessary to be in the water more than the required number of days because of learning difficulties or weather issues. If necessary, you can come back, free of charge, and join in another NAUI Cave Diver Level II to finish your training. We will also train you for any extra days you may need to get you properly certified. It is our mission to make you a safe and competent diver.
Where we do our course:
We usually do our NAUI Cave Diver Level II training in North Florida, the caves there are very beautiful, and ideal for training (Orange Grove Springs, Peacock Springs, Little River Springs). We are very limited to cave choice around the Orlando area. We dive at least three different caves for the NAUI Cave Diver Level II course.
Prerequisites for Course:
* Before participating in the NAUI Cave Diver Level II course, you will be asked to fill out a standard liability release form and a medical statement. If you answer YES to anything on the medical form we will require that you get it signed off by a physician.
* NAUI Cave Diver Level I (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1386) certification, or equivalent cave certification.
* NAUI Decompression Techniques Diver certification, or equivalent
* At least 100 logged dives
* At least 20 logged cave dives after certification as a NAUI Cave Level I Diver (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1386), or equivalent certification.
* http://www.dayoscuba.com/images/dan_insurance_sm.jpg (http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/) is required for all cave and technical classes.
Standards for the NAUI Cave Diver Level II Course:
* One cavern survey dive must be completed.
* Each diver will carry one staged bottom gas cylinder, properly rigged and labeled, during at least a portion of each dive.
* Each diver will carry a decompression cylinder, properly rigged and labeled, to an appropriate location for decompression.
* Minimum starting gas supply for all dives is 220 cubic feet.
* Maximum depth for NAUI Cave Diver Level II training dives will not exceed 130 feet/40 meters.
* All NAUI Cave Diver Level II training dives will be started with at least 20 feet of visibility.
* No major restrictions
* At no time, ever, will life support gear be removed from the diver while in the overhead environment.
* Penetrations are limited to 1/3 of a set of doubles.
What you can do afterwards:
* Dive, dive, dive in the MANY caves across the state of Florida, indeed anywhere!!!
* You will be a much safer, more competent and comfortable diver after completion of your NAUI Cave Diver Level II course.
* The safe diving practices learned during your NAUI Cave Diver Level II course will apply to all types of diving you do in the future, including open water recreational diving.
* Continue your diver training with more specialized training.
*The NAUI Cave Diver Level II course is a prerequisite to other cave courses like NAUI Cave Diver Level III (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1384).
To Register
Email/Call us (http://www.dayoscuba.com/contact.htm) or Sign up online now (https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=tj@dayo.com&undefined_quantity=1&item_name=NAUI+CAVE+II+Training+at+Dayo+Scuba,+Orl ando,+Florida&item_number=NAUI+II+Training&return=http://www.divetraining.net/)!!
Dayo Scuba hosts, sponsors and maintains the worlds leading Cave & Cavern Diving Forum. For more information and resources about cave diving, check it out:
http://dayo.com/images/cdf_std_logo.gif (http://www.cavediver.net)