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TDI Intro. To Tech. Diving

The TDI Intro to Tech course is the perfect course for divers who have heard about technical diving and want to find out more about this exciting branch of advanced recreational diving. This course walks you through the special techniques, planning procedures and skills that set technical diving apart from traditional sport diving. It will show you how to improve your dive planning methods, in-water skills and streamline your existing gear configuration, in a non-threatening and fun learning environment.

The specific skills this course will highlight are:

Advanced Buoyancy Control
Gas Management
Situational Awareness
Trim
Gear Configuration and Selection
Many More!

TDI’s Intro to Tech course is a useful stand-alone course for the diver who wants to become a more skilled, more proficient diver regardless of if they intend to move on to technical diving. The course may also be used as an introduction to the TDI Advanced Nitrox course and the TDI Decompression Procedures course. And finally, it is also a good refresher for certified technical divers who may want to refresh their skills or have them re-evaluated by our TDI technical instructor.

TDI Advanced Nitrox

The TDI Advanced Nitrox course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 to a depth of 130 feet during dives that do not require staged decompression. Often taught in conjunction with the TDI Decompression Procedures course, this can be considered the foundation of your technical diving career. Advanced Nitrox is also a great course for those wanting to extend their bottom times in shallower depths such as scientific diver, and a must for SCR or CCR divers.

Our course cover topics like:

Equipment requirements
Dive planning
Oxygen tracking
Blending methods

You will be using the TDI Advanced Nitrox Diving manual for your course, which explains in an easy to understand practical manner the complex information that Advanced Nitrox divers need to know. For more information on our next Advanced Nitrox course, please give us a call at the store!

TDI Decompression Procedures

As sport divers planned decompression is not something that we do or have been taught. The TDI Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 45m/150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal sport diving limits. Your TDI Instructor will provide you with valuable information and skills, among the topics covered are:

Kit set-up
Equipment requirements
Decompression techniques
Decompression breathing gases
Gas management
Contingency planning

The TDI Decompressions Procedures course combined with the TDI Advanced Nitrox course form the foundation of all other technical courses. After these two courses and some additional experience, the stage has been set for you to move onto additional technical levels. Some of the materials you will be using include the TDI Divers Guide to Decompression Procedures, US Navy or Buhlmann Air Decompression Tables (made of vinyl for easy in-water use and storage).

TDI Extended Range

Certain areas of the world provide spectacular dives at depths deeper than 130 feet but you will not have access (or very limited access) to helium. The TDI Extended Range course teaches you the proper techniques for utilizing compressed air as a breathing gas and with a maximum depth of 180 feet you won’t have to miss those dives. The Extended Range course will cover topics and skills such as:

Equipment requirements and configuration
Decompression options
Use of surface marker buoys
Buddy rescue
Narcosis checks and management

Materials for this course include the TDI Extended Range Diving Manual and the US Navy or Buhlmann Air Decompression Tables (made of vinyl for easy in-water use and storage).

TDI Trimix

As your motivation to explore progresses you will find that you may want to go deeper to dive that wreck that is part of history or that cave system that you have read so much about. One of the major limiting factors of going deeper is narcosis; TDI’s Trimix course shows how to minimize the effects of narcosis by adding helium to offset the nitrogen in your breathing gas. While taking the Trimix course our TDI Instructor will teach you how to plan and execute dives utilizing as little as 18 percent oxygen and diving to maximum depth of 200 feet with a blend of helium appropriate for the planned depth. Included in this course are topics and skills on:

Dive team planning
Gas matching
Cylinder labeling
Surface marker deployment
Equipment configuration
Thermal protection options

TDI Advanced Trimix

The TDI Advanced Trimix course is the top level of training for open circuit divers wishing to dive to depths as deep as 330 feet utilizing hypoxic levels of oxygen (below 17 percent). This course is perhaps one of the most informative and challenging and upon completion you are among some of the most elite divers. Your TDI Instructor will teach you:

Equipment management
Multiple stage cylinder labeling and placement
Complex decompression planning and contingency planning
Dive team awareness and communication
Gas monitoring and management
Use of travel gasses

The TDI Advanced Trimix manual is one of the most up to date manuals and includes all the latest of technology and practices being used.

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