Lost my NAUI Card

Allan Armstrong

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Dec 4, 1990, 5:44:11 PM12/4/90

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About 7 years ago, I got NAUI certified. I no longer have the card, and
never needed it because I never dived. This summer, I had a great time
skin diving for abalone. I went four times. Now that ab season is over,
I'm thinking about scuba diving. How can I get a new copy of my card, or
should I just take the course over again? Could I just retake the written
exam and the certification dives to save money and time?

Thanks,

Allan

Dave_Waller

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Dec 5, 1990, 4:24:35 PM12/5/90

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I know I'm going to get some flak for saying this, but IMO you should
retake a certification course if you haven't dived since your
certification seven years ago Seven years is a long time to forget
things, even for an experienced diver who takes a long layoff. For one
who really hasn't _any_ experience diving, I'd be dubious as to how much
you retained since your initial certification. Basically, if you really
want to start SCUBA diving, consider the money you spent on the _first_
certification as wasted $$$, and spend the money on recertification.
You'll be alot more confident when you dive off the Northern CA coast,
which is challenging, and you'll be alot safer.

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Nicholas J. Simicich

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Dec 7, 1990, 9:14:23 AM12/7/90

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In article <1247...@hpmwnpd2.HP.COM> all...@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Allan
Armstrong) writes:

This has come up before. You can go to a NAUI instructor and get them
to apply for a new C card for you. It shouldn't cost you more than
about $10-$20 or so. (Look in your phone book for a NAUI shop if you
can't find a NAUI instructor.) But 7 years without diving, well, that
is just a long time. Since you already have been certified, you can
take a refresher course, which typically consists of a single lecture
or a video, and a single dive. Now if you have a good memory, this
might be all you need, but just having done your certification dives
is really not long enough to learn new habits. And some percentage of
what they've been teaching in he diving courses has changed over the
last seven years.

The thing for you to do is to talk to an instructor, and discuss your
skills with them, and the type of diving you plan on doing, one on
one. You have one more option: You could take an advanced course.
This would give you some additional classroom training (depending on
the instructor) and would also allow you to do some diving under an
instructor's supervision.

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Allan Armstrong

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Dec 8, 1990, 12:48:18 PM12/8/90

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Thanks to all the kind people who answered my question. I've decided
that I will either take a refresher course or just get certified from
scratch. I've got a dive book, _The New Science of Skin and Scuba
Diving_. I'm gonna read that first, and then decide whether I really
need to take the whole course, or just the refresher.

Thanks,

Allan

PS - OK, now where do I get all the rude bumper stickers that go with
the sport?

Scuba Divers Dive Deeper
Divers Enjoy Wet Pleasures
oh, and the diver's flag sign

I guess I'll check out the local dive shop.

Hey, what time of year is best to buy gear? If ab season is over, does
that mean that business will be slow, and that now would be a good time
to find sales?