Prerequisites:

Additional Details:

Exceptional Cave Diving Instruction is available through our Facility offered in either Mexico, Florida or other cave regions. Cave Programs will build on what is covered in the NAUI Intro to Tech programs and Cavern Diver. All overhead and cave diving courses utilize double cylinders, introduction in cave navigation, reel handling and team diving and awareness and Much MORE! Embrace science and exploration and take the most regimented dive training course available.

This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize risks while conducting limited penetration, simple navigation with the ability to do up to 2 navigation decisions, with the cave dives returning to the original entrance during exit at depths that do not exceed a Maximum Depth of 100 fsw or 30 msw within the NDL, staying within the appropriate Oxygen Exposure not exceeding a PO2 of 1.4ata and falling within Rule of Thirds for planned dive.

Students will discuss academic topics ranging from: Land owner relations and conservation, Diving limitations, including the rule of thirds for dissimilar cylinder sizes, Accident analysis, Cave formations & terminology, Hazards associated with cavern and cave diving, Review of NTEC and Intro to Tech skills and academics.

Skill Requirements:

Land Drills: Proficient use of spools and reels while handling a light, Team and line placement procedures, Safety spool deployment for lost diver and lost line procedures, Zero visibility/touch contact communications while following a line, jump/gap reel or spool deployment with navigational aids, stage bottle handling and deployment, and much more.

Diving Skills (In the cavern zone): Guideline deployment and removal including team responsibilities and roles, modified frog, flutter and pull and glide propulsion, Simulated primary light failure and deploy back up and exit with team, Lost teammate drill, Lost line drill, Stage Bottle Handling and deployment, and much more.

Diving Skills:  Gas analysis and planning, Dive planning using the rule of thirds, O2 toxicity exposures, inert gas absorption based on depth and time within the no-deco limits, penetration distance within cave diver limits and diver comfort, stage bottle handling and deployment, and much more.

Cave Skills: While maintaining proper buoyancy and trim diver will Install a jump/gap reel or spool, Share gas with a teammate while swimming at least 100ft/30m, Simulated primary light failure and deploy back up while maintaining buoyancy and trim, Simulated 0 vis, out-of-gas teammate maintain touch communications and swim 100ft/30m while maintaining contact with guideline, Unconcious Diver Rescue, Stage Bottle Handling and Deployment, Valve drills, dealing with a myriad of catastrophic equipment failures.

NAUI Cave 1 gives the cave diving student a more thorough background in the academics, dive planning stages and execution of cave diving not currently offered by other agencies, while offering additional navigational challenges, more penetration distance and additional skill requirements and experiences than the other agencies making NAUI Cave 1 the new standard in cave diving education.

Don’t Take Shortcuts:

Much like our technical diving courses, our cave diving courses are taught to offer you More Diving, Not the least amount of dives taught to the lowest standard with little to no previous diving experience dives required to enroll in cave training.  This sounds like an accident waiting to happen, like taking fewer classes to jump out of a plane or drive  car, you should want the most through and highest caliber cave diving course and we offer it.

Yes, you should be solid in the water, experienced in the gear and able to maintain buoyancy before you jeopardize yourself or your team in a cave.  You should have excellent fin technique and team diving skills.

Cost: 

40,000 THB with Cavern Portion Included 30,000 THB with NAUI Cavern Completed within 12 months of enrolment. Private Instruction available for 50,000 THB for Cave 1 or 70,000 THB private with Cavern Component.

^{On booking the course with a 10% deposit to confirm you are attending the course, you will need to set up  login into Sign In | NAUI CORE and visit https://store.naui.org/naui-education-systems and choose from the top menu a NES (NAUI Education System) to start studying before you even get here and on your travels here, from £4.54 for a NAUI Open Water Scuba Diver Refresher to £36.35 or £54.53 for Specialities,  for eLearning and a certification card, to €81.46 EUR including paperback books posted to you or a Premier NES (NAUI Education System) of £113.60 for two courses like NAUI Advanced and Nitrox and includes:}

Premier Dual NES includes: primary course textbook, speciality textbook, Universal Logbook, Tables, Nitrox-36 Dive Table, decals, student record folder,  diver patch, Speciality patch, Blank Generic certificate so you will be charged by NAUI for the NAUI student materials, eLearning and for the certificate issue fee. And you will be emailed a NAUI login link to start your eLearning.