Technical Diving Courses
If you're interested in getting technical, send us a message for more information on any of these courses.
Nitrox Training
Diving with Enriched Air gives you longer no-deco time, so you can stay down longer! We offer the PADI Nitrox Diver specialty as well as TDI Advanced Nitrox courses.
TDI INTRO TO TECH DIVING
The TDI Intro to Tech Course is an introductory course that expands on recreational training by improving dive planning methods, in-water skills, and streamlining existing gear configurations in a controlled and fun learning environment.
Who this course is for:
- Certified open water scuba diver who wants to expand diver knowledge
- Certified open water scuba diver who is considering technical training
- Certified technical diver who is seeking a refresher course Course prerequisites:
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
- Minimum certification: SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
- Proof of 25 logged open water dives What you can expect to learn:
- In-depth dive planning, advanced buoyancy control, gas management, situational awareness, proper trim, gear configuration and selection
- Exposure to in-depth dive planning, introduction to more advanced technical diving and equipment
- Opportunity to become a more proficient diver and expand on diver skills and knowledge
- Execute proper gear selection and preparation as well as buddy gas matching
- Mastery of S.T.A.R.T, trim, finning techniques, body positioning, and diver skills
- Overall demonstration of mature, sound judgment concerning dive planning and
Just some of the tech diver courses offered,
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Advanced Nitrox
Decompression Procedures
Solo Diving
TDI Helitrox
SDI Sidemount
Rebreather rescue
Megalodon CCR
PRISM II CCR
Intro to Tech
Advanced gas blender
NITROX gas blender
DRAEGER DOLPHIN SCR
MEGALDON CCR MIXED GAS
Trimix
COPIS ADVANCED MIX GAS
COPIS CCR
ADVANCED WRECK diver
Pathfinder CCR
EXPLOER SCR
TDI NITROX DIVER
TDI Nitrox Diver Course is an entry level course for divers wishing to continue their diver education and utilize enriched air nitrox as a breathing gas to extend no decompression limits at depth.
- The open water diver who is interested in learning more about nitrox mixtures
- The open water diver who is interested in extending their bottom time
- The certified diver who has interest in moving forward with technical diving education
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
- Minimum certification of open water diver or current enrollment in an open water diver course
- The benefits, hazards, and proper procedures for using nitrox mixes from 22 through 40 percent oxygen content
- Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox mixtures, and gas blending procedures
- Ability to dive utilizing EAN-22 to EAN-40 without direct supervision
- Ability to enroll in TDI Advanced Nitrox, TDI Decompression Procedures, TDI Semi-closed Rebreather courses
- Demonstrate understanding of EAD calculations
- Perform oxygen analysis for nitrox mixtures
- Satisfactorily complete the TDI Nitrox course and written examination
REBREATHER COURSES
Rebreather Training
The TDI Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) Air Diluent Diver Course is your first step into closed circuit rebreather diving and your first truly quiet dive experience!Using the latest technology in CCRs can maximize your gas supply and provide an optimum breathing gas for any depth by maintaining a constant partial pressure of oxygen. It’s like having a nitrox blending machine on your back!
During this course, your TDI Instructor will teach you all of the necessary skills to conduct no decompression CCR dives to a maximum depth of 30 metres/100 feet using air diluent.
The certified diver looking to advance their diver level training and equipment configurations by learning to dive a rebreather. Whether you are an avid photographer, want to experience the silence of diving a rebreather, or looking to get closer to the marine life – rebreather diving is for you.
Rebreather Course prerequisites:- Minimum age 18
- Provide proof of 20 logged open water dives
- Provide proof as a TDI Nitrox Diver or equivalent from agencies recognized by TDI
The TDI CCR Air Diluent Diver course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- History and evolution of rebreathers
- Comparison of open circuit (OC), closed circuit, and semi-closed circuit, rebreather (SCR) systems noting the pros and cons of each
- Practical mechanics of the system
- Gas physiology
- Proper scrubber packing: in accordance with manufacturers recommendation
- Electronic or manual systems design and maintenance
- Dive tables
- Dive computers
- Dive planning
- Emergency procedures
- Dive checklists
- Predive checks
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include all of the following and more:
- All open water dives must be between 9 metres/30 feet and 30 metres/100 feet
- Two dives must be deeper than 20 metres/50 feet and one dive must be deeper than 27 metres/90 feet
- Partial pressure of oxygen not to exceed manufacturers recommendation or a working limit of 1.3
- All dives to be completed within CNS percentage limits with a recommend maximum of 80 percent of the total CNS limit
- Where the user opts for an automatic diluent valve (ADV) fitted and approved by the manufacturer, additional skills such as regular diluent gauge monitoring and addition control must be emphasized
- Unit build up and break down
- Predive checks
- Verify diluent and oxygen contents using an analyzer
- Demonstrate correct predive planning procedures
- Cover emergency procedures
- Use of BCD/dry suit and effective management of loop breathing volume for buoyancy control
- Stop at 13-6 metres/ 10-20 feet on descent for leak/bubble check
- Electronic system monitoring for partial pressure of oxygen levels (set point) and switching set points
- Use of lift bag, or surface marker buoy and reel, where appropriate
- Proper execution of the dive within all pre-determined limits
- Demonstration of safety stops at pre-determined depths
- Constant loop volume management
- Post dive clean of unit
- Diver maintenance of unit
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in diving activities utilizing the CCR they were trained to dive without direct supervision of the TDI Instructor so long as the following limits are adhered to:
- The diving activities approximate those of training
- The areas of activities approximate those of training
- Environmental conditions approximate those of training
- To a maximum depth of 30 metres/100 feet
- No decompression dives are permitted
- Satisfactorily complete the TDI CCR Air Diluent examination with a passing score of 80%, followed by 100% remediation by the Instructor
- Complete all open water requirements efficiently
- Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
- Course must be completed within 6 weeks from the starting date
- Complete a refresher course following a period of inactivity greater than 6 months following the course