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Recently NAUI changed their age requirement to 10 years old to coincide with PADI's minimum training age. While I hesitate to get in the middle of this debate on how young is to young I recently trained my first 10 year old diver. Although he met all the requirements for certification I did not feel he had a grasp of diving physics and physiology that would enable him to understand safety concerns sufficiently. The gear was hard to handle for him and dive tables were dificult and I would have to say if I tested him on the tables a month or so after traing I would think he probably wouldn't be able to successfully complete a problem. A few more years of maturity would have been better for this student.
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