To be eligible, you must have completed 100 post cave training dives. You have to present the logbook to an NACD or NSS-CDS instructor to review & sign off on paperwork. Then you must email or snail mail copies of the paperwork & Certification to the respective agency. The Wakulla came in the mail with a letter stating that a certificate will be issued at their next Workshop & if I am not there, would then be mailed out to me. I got notice on FB from the Abe Davis Award coordinator that their award was mailed out.