Recreational Ice Diver

About this course

This specialty course provides the diver with the knowledge and skills needed to minimize risk and gain experience diving under ice. Graduates are considered competent to plan and execute ice dives that do not require staged decompression without instructor supervision, provided the diving environment, activities, areas dived, and equipment approximate those of training.

Prerequisite

• Age. Minimum is 18 years by the water phase of the course.
• Certification/Experience/Knowledge.
  •  NAUI Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent.
  • Proof of at least 50 logged dives in a variety of conditions.
  • The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so. One open water dive (which does not count toward the minimum number of dives required for the course) may be used as a screening and evaluation dive. This is not required when the student’s diving proficiencies are well known to the instructor.