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National Association for Cave Diving

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Company description The NACD was established in 1968 for the purpose of achieving safer cave diving through training and education.
As a pioneer in cave training, education, exploration and research, the NACD has the following goals:
*To establish and maintain current guidelines in the form of physical and psychological standards, as well as equipment and techniques necessary for safe cave diving.
*To encourage education and distribution of safe cave diving information throughout the facilities of the organization and to provide a program of education and advanced training essential for safe cave diving.
*To achieve closer cooperation and understanding among members of the cave and recreational diving communities (and the general public) so they may work together toward the common goal of increasing safety in cavern and cave diving.
*To explore underwater caves and to encourage education and distribution of information to government, private industry and the general public.
To accomplish these goals, the NACD is organized to provide the following services:
*Training and Education - The NACD establishes and maintains standards for safe cavern and cave diving.
*Seminars and Workshops - The NACD is active in organizing and planning seminars and workshops, often in cooperation with organizations concerning equipment, techniques, safety, education, training, conservation and exploration.
*Committees - The NACD has numerous committees, all volunteers, to facilitate its operations and services.
*Information #Services - The NACD publishes and disseminates information regarding cavern and cave diving in the form of newsletters, journals, pamphlets, seminar proceedings, training manuals, cave maps, textbooks
and safety reports.
*Membership and Record Maintenance - The association maintains the records of certified cavern and cave divers and instructors as well as individual members of the organization.
*Conservation - The NACD supports the preservation of the cave habitat and its unique flora and fauna through education, periodic clean-ups at popular dive sites and safety sign campaigns. Click here to submit an observation report of any problems you see in or around our caves/springs.
*Exploration and Research - The NACD is active in conducting studies of accident prevention, management of cave diving sites, and stress in cave diving, and promotes scientific endeavors relative to archeology, cave geology, geology, hydrology and ground water pollution.
Location description: THE NACD PHILOSOPHY: Quality Training, Safe Techniques, and Respect for the sub aquatic cave environment.
The goal of the NACD is not to encourage people to cave or cavern dive. The responsibility of the organization is to aid interested divers in becoming safe cavern or cave divers and to discourage those who may not meet minimum standards. The NACD philosophy of safe cave diving is based on a system of checks and balances to insure that NACD standards are maintained in each course.
A Strong Diving Partner Philosophy. The NACD strongly advocates diving with a partner as the best approach to safe cave diving. This system is one, which unites two or more individuals into an effective dive team. A partner is a member of a team who, in case of emergency, provides both emergency equipment, and the emergency gas supply. The divers must recognize individual strengths and weaknesses, create an attitude of mutual trust and honesty, and avoid personality differences to maximize team safety. Available:
*Cavern Diving
The cavern diving course is taught in a minimum of two days and includes classroom lectures, field exercises, open water line drills and a minimum of four cavern dives. This course emphasizes planning, procedures, environment, propulsion techniques, buoyancy skills, problem solving, equipment modification and the focuses on the specialized needs of the cavern diver.
*Intro to Cave Diving
The Introduction to Cave Diving course is taught in a minimum of two days and includes and a minimum of four single tank cave dives. This course is designed to help hone those skills previously learned in cavern. New skills and procedures are taught which are needed for limited single tank cave penetration.
*Apprentice to Cave
The Apprentice Cave Diver is considered a training level only and shall result in the issuance of a time-limited temporary card. Such temporary card shall expire of its own force and effect one year from the date of issuance. Upon expiration, the diver will be required to repeat the Apprentice Cave Diver program in full to subsequently dive at that level.
*Full Cave
The cave diver course is one of the most advanced certifications available today. It is taught in a minimum of four days with a minimum of eight dives. The emphasis of this course is equipment configuration, decompression problem solving, jumps, circuits, traverses, and surveying.
*Specialty Cave
Specialty courses offered are advanced decompression theory, exploration/survey techniques, stage diving, side mount diving, submersible diver propulsion vehicle techniques, photography and videography.
*Instructor Courses
Four leadership levels are available: Cavern Instructor, Introduction to Cave Instructor
Cave Instructor, Specialty Cave Instructor.
For more information on NACD training programs, visit our website or just contact us.

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Certifying Agency for Cavern and Cave Diving.

Contact information:

Phone: 1-888-565-6223
Fax: 1-888-565-6223
Street Address:
P.O. Box 14492
Gainesville
Florida
United States
32604
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 5 Bogota, Lima, Kito
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