Eastside Diving Company

Puget Sound's Eastside Connection - For Scuba Diving Education and Activities

NAUI Open Water 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 whic 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 world... and, 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!

NAUI Nitrox Diver
Want to extend your bottom time, lessen your surface interval, and maximize every dive? Become an Enriched Air Nitrox diver! You will learn how to choose the proper blend of Nitrox for your dive profile, determine maximum depth limits for your Nitrox mixture, analyze your breathing mixture, and plan and safely execute each dive. Your instructor will teach you about the physiology of oxygen and nitrogen; advantages, disadvantages, and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and precautions of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use of EANx with standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures; and more. After your exam, you can qualify for the Nitrox recognition card, or go ahead and complete two dives to receive your Nitrox Diver certification card. And, your NAUI instructor can integrate your Nitrox course into your Scuba Diver course!

NAUI Rescue 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 Advanced Scuba Diver
Let your underwater adventure continue! Apply your scuba skills as you explore new dive sites and activities under our supervision. 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 diving 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/40meters maximum depth, plus three additional dives to help develope better Air Management, Buoyancy and Trim skills

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.

NAUI Wreck Diver (External Survey)
If you are at least 18 years old and have a NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent thereof, you can take a Wreck Diver (External Survey) course and start exploring sunken vessels, aircraft, and other amazing wrecks in the underwater world. Your NAUI Wreck Diver (External Survey) instructor will teach you about safety, hazards and cautions, special risks of overhead environments, entanglement, limited visibility, deep diving, equipment, location of wrecks, sources of information, search methods, underwater navigation, legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology, and much more. Get ready to start exploring!

NAUI Scooter / DPV Diver
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Intro to Tech
This course is designed to give the open water or advanced diver the opportunity to improve their skills, knowledge, and equipment configuration, thereby increasing their safety and efficiency.  The course is also intended to prepare the advanced diver for the rigors of technical diver training.

Technical Nitrox
This course is to provide the nitrox diver with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing optimal breathing gas nitrox mixtures of 28% - 100% (oxygen) for dives to a maximum training depth of 130 fsw not requiring mandatory decompression.

Helitrox (Technical Diver Part 1)
This course is to provide the training and experience necessary to gain the knowledge and understand the hazards of using helium for dives to a maximum depth of 150 fsw that may require stage decompression, utilizing nitrox mixtures and or oxygen during decompression.

Decompression Techniques (Technical Diver part 2)
This course is to provide the dive with a working knowledge of the theory, methods, and procedures of planned stage decompression diving.  As part of the course the students will plan and conduct a staged decompression dive not exceeding 130 fsw.  Equipment requirements, team requirements, and NTEC configurations, decompression breathing gas mixtures (including oxygen, NAUI Helitrox, and Nitrox) and decompression techniques are to be presented.

NAUI Technical Diver (Helitrox, Tech Nitrox, Deco Techniques)
The NAUI Technical Diver Combination class is a combination class teaching technical nitrox, Helitrox, and decompression procedures.  The class is structured to prepare divers for technical deeper diving by teaching them how to use recommended breathing mixtures and ascent procedures together with stage decompression procedures. 

NAUI Trimix 1 Diver
The Trimix Diver Course consists of two levels, Trimix Diver Level I and Trimix Diver Level II. These courses will give you the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing helium-based Trimix breathing gas mixes for dives to a maximum depth of 250 fsw / 76 msw requiring stage decompression and utilizing EANx mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression. Your Trimix Level I instructor will teach you to plan and execute technical dives that require stage decompression and utilize helium-based tri-mix breathing gas mixtures and EANx and/or oxygen for stage decompression to depths above 200 fsw / 61 msw. In your Tri-mix Level II course, you will learn how to safely extend your diving depths down to no greater than 250 fsw / 76 msw. To enroll in either Trimix course, you must be certified as a NAUI Decompression Techniques Diver and Technical Helitrox Diver or equivalent, and have a minimum of 100 logged dives 20 of which must have been decompression dives.

NAUI Trimix 2 Diver
The Trimix Diver Course consists of two levels, Trimix Diver Level I and Trimix Diver Level II. These courses will give you the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing helium-based Trimix breathing gas mixes for dives to a maximum depth of 250 fsw / 76 msw requiring stage decompression and utilizing EANx mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression. Your Trimix Level I instructor will teach you to plan and execute technical dives that require stage decompression and utilize helium-based tri-mix breathing gas mixtures and EANx and/or oxygen for stage decompression to depths above 200 fsw / 61 msw. In your Tri-mix Level II course, you will learn how to safely extend your diving depths down to no greater than 250 fsw / 76 msw. To enroll in either Trimix course, you must be certified as a NAUI Decompression Techniques Diver and Technical Helitrox Diver or equivalent, and have a minimum of 100 logged dives 20 of which must have been decompression dives.

NAUI Tech 2 Diver
More information to come.

NAUI Assistant Instructor
As an AI, 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.

NAUI Dive Master
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.

Technical Support Leader

The Technical Support Leader (TSL) course is designed to train knowledgeable NAUI Divemasters and Assistant Instructors who are also technical divers to act as part of a support team for technical diving and training activities.  A TSL provides assistance to teams of technical divers provided diving conditions and methods approximate those in which your TSL training occurs. Your TSL responsibilities might include shuttling of equipment, removal and replacement of staged decompression gases and equipment, rigging and setting up decompression stations, and gases and monitoring divers during ascent and staged decompression stops.

 

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