Who is NASE Worldwide?

The National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE Worldwide) is a training organization that provides state-of-the-art teaching materials, programs and leadership to diving professionals around the world.

The only diver training organization to draw its extensive experience from the fields of commercial surface supplied, hyperbaric, saturation, recreational, technical, public safety, free and cave diver training. NASE’s parent company, CDA Technical Institute, is the world’s largest commercial diving school. Our goal is to change the way the world learns to dive. We strive to provide dive training and instruction to fit any skill level using innovative dive training materials and methods. We provide dive training for the novice looking for scuba diving lessons as well as higher diver training for the professional diver looking for rewarding careers in diving.

Students internalize what they see and experience during dive training. NASE helps make sure this example inspires safe and environmentally responsible divers. One of the ways we do this is by competecy based training and ending every dive with a slow ascent and safety stop. Our diving instructors also teach divers environmentally friendly practices such as ways to minimize contact with the bottom, as to leave the aquatic environment undisturbed.

History

The National Academy of Scuba Educators (NASE) in 1982 in Lubbock, Texas. It was the concept of a group of scuba diving enthusiasts and business experts who identified a different approach to scuba diver certification agencies and their business practices. With this new and different philosophy, NASE was born.

In 2000 NASE was purchased by Ray black, Founder and CEO of CDA Technical Institute and expanded NASE Worldwide into ALL diving aspects and methhods. 

Over the last ten years, NASE Worldwide made the following accomplishments:

• Became a voting member of (ANSI) an organization that provides scuba training
• Became a World Underwater Federation/CMAS affiliate and reciprocity status for NASE Worldwide scuba diving instructors, developing a common-sense approach to scuba lessons and scuba certification
• NASE Worldwide redesigned all its training programs to Competecy Based Training.
• NASE Worldwide became the first global agency to add competecy based training for: Surface Supplied Air Diving, Surface Supplied Deep Air Diving, Surface Supplied Mixed Gas Diving, Aquanaut (Saturation) Diving, Technical Diving, Public Safety Diving, Scientific Diving, Free Diving.
• Became one of the first diver training organizations that eliminated buddy breathing
• Embraced the use of Nitrox in all levels of dive training
• Used new teaching styles to freely structure dive training to fit individuals’ needs

Latest accomplishments:

• Became the first diver training organization to offer recognized Commercial Scuba Diver Courses
• Revised course standards based on individual diving competency standards instead moved from dive requirements to actual bottom time requirements
• Launched the NASE Worldwide “Progression Diving” concept to bridge the gap from snorkeling to scuba diver certification.

NASE Worldwide has continued to make progress and has entered into a new era of diver education and diver training. As part of a larger whole, NASE Worldwide will continue developing programs and materials that are second to none and to provide members unparalleled support. The new wave is here.