[SLATE, March 1972,Volume 2-No.1]
The first Seminar for SCIP crossover into National Association of Underwater Instructors has been set for March 18 and 19 at the Tarrant County Junior College, South Campus in Fort Worth. The program starts at 8:00 a.m. Saturday with Dr. Glen Egstrom and Dr. William Schroeder explaining the procedures and policy of NAUI. Following these briefings, the series of written tests will be given, followed by formal oral presentations. Sunday will be mostly taken up with open water teachings at a nearby lake.
The second crossover seminar is tentatively set for sometime in May at Austin. All SCIP certified instructors in
good standing that want to make this seminar should write to the seminar secretary, Judy Crouch, *******, Dallas,
Tx. Zip Code *****.
To be eligible for the NAUI certification through these limited certifying programs, each instructor must have
attended two SCIP seminars and taught one SCIP certified divers course in the last two years. IQ 3 is valid as
a qualifying seminar for those instructors who were in attendance for the three days and registered for recertification.
Several workshops have been held in Houston and Dallas that were attended by many SCIP instructors. In September,
the Ocean Corporation put on a two day seminar, "What to do When Everything Goes Wrong," where all the
participants experienced a free ascent and a bouyant ascent in the sixty foot tank. Everyone also enjoyed a "ride"
in their recompression chamber. NAUI conducted a one day ori- program especially for SCIP instructors, in Houston
kind again in Dallas. The Ocean Corporation offered an Industrial Orientation Course February 26 and 27. The instructors
and divers were able to take a look into some commercial aspects of diving including the experience of a trip down
in hard hat rigs. They had two days of lectures, discussions, demonstrations, dives on surface supplied hats, and
playing with some of the most recently developed equipment in the field.
All of these programs are designed to upgrade the instructor, giving them a greater depth in experience and knowledge.
They were especially useful as warmup sessions for the SCIP instruc- planning to go through the crossover.
For our instructors that have only attended one SCIP seminar there is a YMCA seminar being put on by Jan McGinnis,
certified SCIP, NAUI, and YMCA, that can be audited and counted for your second seminar, thereby giving you the
required eight day seminar experience to qualify for the NAUI requirement.
For information about this, write to Jan McGinnis,*********, Houston, Texas *****.
Copyright - 2004 - Dick Wilgus, Sandy Wilgus & Paul Johnston