National Association of Underwater Instructors
| Abbreviation | NAUI |
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| Motto | The Definition of Diving |
| Formation | 1960 |
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | 501(c)(6) association |
| Purpose | diver training and certification |
| Headquarters | Florida, USA |
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Region served
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International, Global |
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Main organ
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Board Of Directors |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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The National Diving Patrol |
The National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI Worldwide) is a non-profit 501 (c) (6) association of scuba instructors. It is a recreational dive certification and membership organization established to provide international diver standards and education programs. The agency was founded in 1960 by Albert Tillman and Neal Hess. NAUI is headquartered in Tampa, Florida (USA) with dive and member instructors, resorts, stores, service and training centers, located in Japan, South Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Mercosul (Brazil) and the Pacific Rim.
It was officially CE and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified in May 2007 in all three diver levels and both instructor levels and re-certified for its Scuba Diving Programs as meeting ISO and European Underwater Federation standards on November 24, 2015.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service determined that NAUI be a tax-exempt, non-profit educational organization in 1971.
Agency standards, policies and ethics are governed by the Association’s Board of Directors(members themselves), who are each elected through a democratic election process by the overall instructor membership.
After Jacques-Yves Cousteau introduced the Aqua-Lung to the market, there followed a growing interest in scuba diving by the public and a subsequent need to codify the training.
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