Can you get your Master Scuba Diving license or do you start your first and build up?

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3 Responses to “Can you get your Master Scuba Diving license or do you start your first and build up?”

  1. scubabob says:
    August 24, 2011 at 5:54 am

    Gotta learn to walk before you run. You’ll start as an Open Water diver first and progress up the ladder.

  2. Doug says:
    August 24, 2011 at 6:08 am

    Through PADI you have to work you way up to Master Scuba Diver, in order…

    Open Water Diver
    Advanced Open Water Diver
    Rescue Diver
    5 Specialties**
    Apply for Master Scuba Diver

    **There are some specialties that you can start to take after Open Water. Others you can take after Advanced Open Water. So you could have the five Specialties requirement out of the way before taking Rescue Diver.

  3. moviebuff says:
    August 24, 2011 at 6:52 am

    Start and build.

    The NAUI course progression:

    Scuba Diver –> Advanced Scuba Diver –> Master Scuba Diver –> [Leadership]

    Most specialty courses like Rescue, Nitrox, Dry Suit etc can be taken any time after Scuba Diver. A few specialties require an Advanced Scuba Diver certification.

    Unlike almost all other recreational agencies, the NAUI Master Scuba Diver is an actual certification course instead of a recognition card. The course expands on material covered by the Scuba Diver & Advanced Scuba Diver courses and is intended to impart an instructor-level understanding of scuba equipment, diving physics & physiology, decompression theory, diving environment, problem solving & emergency procedures, night/low visibility diving, navigation, search & salvage, boating/seamanship & more. The course also involves a minimum of 8 dives of which there are 5 required dives (accident management, simulated decompression, navigation, low visibility/night, search/salvage) and 3 or more elective dives.

    So there’s no way to jump right into that course, there’s a lot of stuff to learn before you would be eligible to enroll.

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