NAUI Technical Support Leader is a technical leadership course for qualified NAUI Instructors, Divemasters, and Assistant Instructors who are also technical divers. The official NAUI page describes the course as preparing these leaders to act as part of a support team for technical diving, technical training activities, and guiding technical dives that are not in a physical overhead environment. Support is limited to the level to which the Technical Support Leader is certified.
This course is for experienced technical divers with existing NAUI leadership status, not for divers just beginning the technical pathway. NAUI lists the minimum age as 18. A suitable candidate should already have strong technical diving judgment, reliable team habits, professional-level situational awareness, and the maturity to support instructors and divers without exceeding personal qualification limits. The course is especially relevant where technical dives require surface, in-water, or logistical support.
Training normally focuses on support-team responsibilities, dive planning, supervision limits, risk management, communication, and technical-diving logistics. In High Springs, Florida, Technical Support Leader can support decompression, cave-adjacent, and mixed-gas training programs by developing more capable assistants around complex dives. The expected outcome is a leader who can contribute to technical training and guiding safely, while understanding exactly where support ends and instructor or higher-level authority begins.
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