National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) is a SCUBAdiver training organization concerned with promoting dive safety through education.
NAUI Worldwide (http://www.nauiww.org) is the world's oldest not-for-profit membership training agency organized solely to support and promote dive safety through education. Formed in 1960, NAUI Worldwide offers a full range of training programs from Skin Diver through Instructor Course Director, with dozens of specialty courses including nitrox and technical diving. Thousands of member Instructors, affiliated stores, resorts, and service centers are located in countries throughout the world.
NAUI Technical Training Operations (http://www.nauitec.com) codified tec community training practices resulting in a higher standard of training worldwide. For expert help, NAUI Tec asked the people who created the technology, protocols and training methods that produced a tec diving community. As a result of their work, NAUI Instructors can provide you with the skills, knowledge and discipline to manage technical diving while minimizing risk.
NAUI was founded by Albert Tillman and Neal Hess in 1959.
NAUI sanctioned Nitrox training in 1992 - the first recreational training agency to do so - continuing to innovate in support of its members and in the interest of diving safety.
Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the inventor of the aqualung, was on the board of advisors of NAUI.