Subject: Sports Training I - Scuba diving

Scientific Area:

Sport Sciences

Workload:

160 Hours

Number of ECTS:

15 ECTS

Language:

Portuguese

Overall objectives:

1 - Mastering knowledge related to the SDiving training in an integrated way, enabling you to intervene with knowledge and property
2 - Adopt a scientific attitude and a reflexive critical method
3 - Reveal initiative and innovation in SDiving Sports Training
4 - Develop the technical mastery of the fundamental contents of the different levels of SDiving courses
5 - Assume availability and motivation for teamwork, privileging the sharing of inf and behaviors of solidarity and mutual help
6 - Using inf technologies and effective communication in the application of sports of Knowledge and SDiving
7 - Develops the ability to Observation/Analysis of the SDiving skills
8 - Plan and manage the process of sports training in SDiving
9 - Evaluate, plan and organize training sessions and sports activities for diferent groups in Scuba Diving
10 - Develops the capacity for autonomy and the sense of social responsibility in guiding the training process in order to apply knowledges

Syllabus:

1 - History of Diving
2 - Certifying Bodies and Legal Framework for Diving
3 - Diving Equipment, how it works, its maintenance and care to be taken
4 - Safety Principles
5 - Principles of Physics applied to Diving
6 - Principles of Physiology Applied to Diving
7 - Signage and signs
8 - Guiding Educational Principles of Coach Intervention
9 - Characteristics of a Good Coach
10 - Teaching Techniques
10.1. - General Considerations
10.2. - Organization
10.3. - Recommendations for Conduct and Skills
10.3.1. - Discover Snorkeling
10.3.2. - Discover Scuba Diving
10.3.3. - Open Water Diver Course
11. - Training planning
11.1. - Confined water dives
11.2 - Open water dives
12. - Diagnosis, Prescription and Control

Literature/Sources:

PADI , 2010 , Guide to Teaching da PADI , PADI
PADI , 2016 , Open Water Diver Manual , PADI
PADI , 2005 , The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving , PADI
Peregrino, Adriano , sd , MANUAL DO MERGULHO AUTÔNOMO DESPORTIVO CBPDS / CMAS ,

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Theoretical and Practical approach to the syllabus and discussion; Laboratory practice classes with video observation and analysis; tutorial orientation meetings. Internship in an organization with protocol with UMa: organization and management of the training and competition process under the guidance of the tutor in the organization. The evaluation is carried out through a theoretical work - 35%; of a research work to develop a theme - 30%; the continuous evaluation of the work developed throughout the semester with regard to the organization of training and with a critical report of the activity developed - 35%.