Training AAI NEPTUNE DIVERS LAS VEGAS A NAUI PRO PLATINUM FACILITY
Let us teach you how to dive!
We are the only NAUI Platinum Pro Facility in Las Vegas. What's more? With a NAUI Course Director and an Instructor Trainer on staff, we can teach you from beginner all the way to Instructor level! With the addition of Unified Team Diving (UTD), we are also the only UTD facility and DIR friendly dive shop in Las Vegas!
NAUI SCUBA Diver NAUI SCUBA Diver
Your underwater adventure begins! Imagine watching the water level move up your mask as you slowly go below the surface - and continue to breathe! It's the most exciting feeling imaginable and yours when you become a NAUI Scuba Diver!
Scuba Diver is our entry level scuba certification course during which you will learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to safely scuba dive in open water. When you complete your class you and your buddy will be free to explore and discover the many wonders of the underwater worlda nd, you will have earned a NAUI Scuba Diver certification card, the most respected diver certification card in the world!
Come on and dive in a lifetime of fun, adventure, memories, experiences, and new friends awaits you!
What You Will Learn
Your instructor will teach you about dive equipment, the science of diving, responsible diving practices and the environment. You will also learn many skills in the water with practice time for your safety and comfort; and complete your training with a minimum of five open water dives.
How Do You Get Started?
As long as you are 10 years or older and in good physical condition, you can enroll in a NAUI Scuba Diver course. Come visit us. Sign up for your class, grab your bathing suit and get ready to have FUN!
UTD EoR UTD Essentials of Recreational Diving
Essentials of Recreational Diving is designed to cultivate the essential techniques required by all sound diving practices, irrespective of level or environment. This course acts as a bridge between conventional training and UTDs more demanding curriculum.
The course brings any certified diver the skills and understanding required of the more advanced UTD courses, focusing on precise buoyancy control, dive planning, ascent procedures, safety, and environmental awareness.
The Essentials of Recreational Diving is where students receive the foundation of UTD philosophy, configuration and in-water skills. The class is designed for any diver that wants to learn about the benefits of UTD and apply it to their diving. The class is geared toward the newly certified open water diver, but even seasoned veteran divers have found that by incorporating UTD principles into their diving practices, they increase both safety and fun. Photographers and videographers will especially appreciate the detailed training in propulsion & precision buoyancy control that assists you in getting that perfect shot! Instructors will appreciate the "fresh look" at diver training and skill development. This is a great first step towards learning and understanding the Unified Team Diving approach.
Regardless of your experience level, UTD philosophy allows you to grow as a diver. Some divers are eager to begin incorporating the increased skill and academic demands of UTD but do not have the desire to become deep technical divers. This class is tailor made for a new open water diver who wants to know what skills they need to work on, or for the diver new to UTD who wants to learn more without the burden of passing a class. This class serves as an excellent introduction to UTD, and is perfect for someone who wants to start Recreational training in more advanced UTD classes.
NAUI Advanced SCUBA Diver NAUI ADVANCED SCUBA Diver
Let your underwater adventure continue! Apply your scuba skills as you explore new dive sites and activities under the supervision and training of your NAUI Instructor. Learn which diving specialties interest you, and what type of diving you enjoy most. Gain more confidence and capability. Begin to consider the direction diving will take you, as you go for everything it has to offer.
The Advanced Scuba Diver course is an enjoyable certification course for 12-year-old (or older) certified divers who desire additional training, have moved from one diving area to another and desire local orientation, do not have, but wish to obtain, NAUI certification, or who desire orientation to a variety of diving sites and conditions.
As part of your certification, you will complete a minimum of six open water dives including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters maximum depth), plus three different dives.
NAUI Rescue Diver NAUI RESCUE SCUBA Diver
Once you are 15 years of age and a certified scuba diver, you can expand your diving knowledge with a Scuba Rescue Diver course. Learn how to manage risks and effectively handle limited in-water problems and diving emergencies, how to assist and transport divers, and how to perform surface rescues and rescues from depth involving both boat and shore based skin and scuba divers.
CPR and First Aid certifications are required to complete this course. Your Scuba Rescue Diver training moves you on your pathway to becoming a NAUI Leader: Skin Diving Instructor, Assistant Instructor, Divemaster, or Instructor.
NAUI MSD NAUI MASTER SCUBA Diver
Gain the in-depth knowledge that will establish you as a recognized authority in your diving club or group. Hone your diving skills to the level of a professional NAUI Leader. Thrill to the adventure of open water dives in settings that will test your abilities to their limit while enhancing and expanding your diving capabilities. Then proudly wear the most coveted and respected patch in recreational diving - that of the NAUI Master Scuba Diver.
Overview
The course is an continuing education certification course for divers who wish to increase their understanding and enjoyment of diving. Emphasis is on student participation and practical application of knowledge in open water after a classroom discussion of subjects. This course is an excellent progression toward NAUI Leadership roles.
Some subject areas are a review and expansion of material from previous courses. Each subject area is a progression in study not a definitive study in the particular diving activity. However, instructors will specify performance objectives for related course diving activities, for example, during a navigation dive the student will swim a reciprocal course to within 10 feet (3 m) of its origin.
The course may be divided and taught in sections with the students Diving/Training Log being signed off for each activity until all requirements are met.
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to engage in open water diving activities without supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.
NAUI AI NAUI ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR
As an Assistant Instructor, you will be authorized to teach all aspects of skin and scuba diving under the supervision of a NAUI Instructor. This is the best possible way to develop your instructional skills. The rating can be a step toward full Instructor, or an end in itself. Match your time, talent and interests with the NAUI programs near you, and enjoy the adventure of personal and professional enhancement as a NAUI leader.
Overview
The NAUI Assistant Instructor rating is a NAUI leadership-level certification. The program is designed to introduce students to diving instruction basics. It also tests individuals in fundamental water skills needed to be capable assistants. Certification authorizes individuals to assist active-status NAUI Instructors in the conduct of dive training. NAUI Assistant Instructor certification is a highly recommended step in the progression to NAUI Instructor.
Qualifications of Graduates
A current NAUI Assistant Instructor is qualified to assist active-status NAUI Instructors in teaching skin and scuba diving during sanctioned diving courses provided the activities and locale are similar to those of the training. Additional training or experience is to be obtained by the Assistant Instructor who desires to assist in highly specialized training activities, such as deep, wreck penetration, cavern or ice dives.
A NAUI Assistant Instructor and can be counted toward student-instructor ratios.
NAUI DM NAUI DIVEMASTER
Would you like to lead dives and dive trips; take certified divers on vacations to the world's best dive sites? Many Divemasters are employed full-time or work independently supervising certified divers during club, store, resort or charter tour and travel activities. As a NAUI Divemaster you enjoy again and again adventures to which you introduce your clients. Another option leading to NAUI Instructor qualification.
Overview
The NAUI Divemaster rating is the highest NAUI leadership-level certification with the exception of Instructor. The program is designed to train experienced and knowledgeable divers to organize and conduct enjoyable open water dives for certified divers.
Qualifications of Graduates
An active-status NAUI Divemaster is qualified to organize and conduct dives for certified divers if the diving activities and locale approximate those in which the Divemaster is trained. Additional training, knowledge or experience is necessary for the Divemaster who desires to organize highly specialized activities, such as wreck penetration, cavern or ice dives or enter a new locale.
An active-status NAUI Divemaster is qualified to organize and conduct NAUI Recognition (such as International Diver) and Experience Programs (such as Stingray Experience) and award appropriate recognition materials to participants.
An active-status NAUI Divemaster is qualified to assist an active-status NAUI Instructor in diving courses.
NAUI Instructor NAUI INSTRUCTOR
Prerequisites and Requirements
Age - Minimum is 18 years.
Experience - Specified for each Leadership course. Required logged dives shall be varied in environment and depth.
Rescue Certification - At a minimum, Scuba Rescue Diver certification is required except for Skin Diving Instructor, for which a lifeguarding certification is adequate.
CPR & First Aid Certification - Current certification or verified competency in CPR and First Aid is required for registration. Certification training shall include one person adult CPR, infant/child CPR, two person CPR and the use of rescue breathing barrier devices, e.g. pocket mask®, face shield.
Medical Approval - Verification of good physical condition as documented by a medical examination and unconditional approval for diving by a licensed physician within the preceding 12 months.
Administrative Requirements - Submit a complete course application, provide and be responsible for dive gear suitable for open water and provide all required texts and materials.
NAUI Specialty NAUI SPECIALTY COURSES
Whether you are interested in underwater phototgraphy, hunting &: collecting, search &: recovery, or expanding your training to include advanced rescue skills or diving with Nitrox, NAUI has a specialty course for you!
Below are just some of the more popular courses available to you as a certified scuba diver. Read on...there's bound to be a NAUI course that's just right for you!
Deep Diver
Dry Suit Diver
Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx)
Scuba Rescue Diver
Search and Recovery Diver
Training Assistant
Underwater Archeologist
Underwater Ecologist
Underwater Environment
Underwater Photographer
Underwater Hunter and Collector
Wreck Diver (External Survey)
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Instructors AAI NEPTUNE DIVERS LAS VEGAS A NAUI PRO PLATINUM FACILITY
Our Staff Instructors
Stephen Castle 
STEPHEN CASTLE, OWNER; NAUI COURSE DIRECTOR;
SDI/TDI INSTRUCTOR TRAINER; PSDA REGIONAL REP;
DAN INSTRUCTOR
Stephen Castle, the owner of AAI Neptune Divers is a NAUI Instructor, NAUI Instructor Trainer, and a NAUI Course Director. He is certified to teach all NAUI courses from Scuba Diver thru Instructor. Stephen is also a specialty instructor for over 15 different specialties including Drysuit Diving, Diver Accident Response Trainer (DART), Nitrox Diving, River Diving, Underwater Navigation, Underwater Photography, Underwater Video, Wreck Diving, and Fresh Water Experience.
Jimmy Garlock 
JIMMY GARLOCK, DIRECTOR OF TRAINING
Jimmy was certified as a NAUI Instructor in 1989 and a lifetime member of NAUI. He currently serves as Director of Training with AAI Neptune Divers.
Jim Odell 
JIM ODELL, INSTRUCTOR
Jim Odell has been diving since 1994. He is a National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) certified instructor and teaches all levels of diving from entry level to assistant instructor. He is qualified to teach First Aid, Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and is a Diver's Alert Network (DAN) Oxygen Provider and Marine First Aid instructor.
In addition, Jim is also a Technical Diving International (TDI) Nitrox Instructor. He has dove throughout Southern California, Hawaii, and the South Pacific. Jim says, "Diving is a great sport, one that families can enjoy together as well as singles. I still look forward to every dive and want to let more people share in the beauty of life below the sea. Whether you live in Vegas or just planning a visit, come by the shop and talk about learning to dive or classes to improve your diving skills".
Scott Fowler SCOTT FOWLER, INSTRUCTOR; EPA DIVE TEAM
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