National Association for Cave Diving
| Abbreviation | NACD |
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| Formation | July 2, 1969 |
| Headquarters | Gainesville, Florida; administration and operations: High Springs, Florida |
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NACD was officially incorporated by David Desautels and Larry Briel with officers Tom Mount, Dale Malloy, Gil Milner, M.D., Jim Sweeney, Ron Wahl, and Hal Watts, signing the papers. |
| Website | www |
The National Association for Cave Diving (NACD) was founded in 1968 with the goal of improving the safety of scuba diving in caves through training and education. A non-profit corporation, the NACD has its headquarters in Gainesville, Florida but is conducting its administration and operations from High Springs, Florida.
NACD offers training courses and certification in cavern and cave diving, and instructor courses. As part of its mission to raise safety standards in cave diving, the NACD publishes a quarterly journal, holds seminars, and sponsors cave diving projects.
The oldest cave diving training organization, the National Association for Cave Diving (NACD) was established in 1968 for the purpose of achieving safer cave diving through training and education, The goal is not to encourage cavern or cave diving, but rather to aid interested divers in becoming safe cavern and cave divers.
The NACD is
The NACD offers special training and certification programs, regular seminars, workshops, and a variety of specialized publications. The NACD is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with membership open to all who have an interest in underwater caves. All members receive discounts on products and admission fees to NACD events.
The purpose of the NACD Training standards is
The goals of the NACD are
The NACD training program was developed around issues that were causing fatalities in North Florida Springs. These issues are commonly referred to as the Guidelines of Accident Analysis. The guidelines, beginning with the most frequent cause for fatalities, are
Cave diving can be extremely safe with proper training and by always abiding by the rules that have been established. Thus the need for training in cave diving was established.
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. The courses available are as described below:
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.
The NACD encourages every diver to complete a cavern diving course. The cavern diving course has a significant safety benefit for all active scuba divers who enroll, even if they do not continue to dive in the overhead environment, introduces skills that are usable in all types of diving, develops dive planning abilities and problem solving procedures.
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