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National Association of Underwater Instructors

National Association of Underwater Instructors
Abbreviation NAUI
Motto The Definition of Diving
Formation 1960 (1960)
Type NGO
Legal status 501(c)(6) association
Purpose diver training and certification
Headquarters Florida, USA
Location
  • 9030 Camden Field Parkway Riverview, FL. 33578 USA
Region served
International, Global
Main organ
Board Of Directors
Website www.naui.org//
Formerly called
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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