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Technical Diving Courses
The TDI Intro to Tech course is the course for divers whom wish to proceed deeper into understand the higher level of technical aspects in diving and it is like an extended path to advanced recreational diving.
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Technical Diving Courses
The TDI Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 45m, this course if the first step beyond the normal sport diving limits.
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The TDI Advanced Wreck Diver Course is the next step for any diver that has successfully completed the SDI Wreck Diver Course.
During this course, your TDI Instructor will teach you the proper techniques for locating and planning an advanced penetration dive.
The advanced wreck course is commonly taught with other popular TDI courses such as Advanced Nitrox, Decompression Procedures, Extended Range, Closed Circuit Rebreather, and Trimix.
Technical Diving Courses
TDI Extended Range course teaches you the proper techniques for utilizing compressed air as a breathing gas with a maximum depth of 55m, so you can go for v deep dives.
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Technical Diving Courses
At this stage, you may wish to do deeper for your dives, to that wreck or cave system. Narcosis is one of the major limiting factors. TDI’s Trimix Diver course shows one how to minimize the effects of narcosis by adding helium to offset the nitrogen in your breathing gas.
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Technical Diving Courses
The TDI Advanced Trimix Diver course is the top level of training for open circuit divers, to dive to depth as deep as 100m.
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The TDI Helitrox Diver Course examines the theory, methods, and procedures for planning staged decompression dives utilizing helium in the breathing mixture to reduce the effects of inert gas narcosis.
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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.
Are you an open circuit technical diver looking to cross over to the “silent” side?
Or maybe you are a CCR Air Diluent Diver looking to progress to the next level? Either way, TDI’s CCR Air Diluent Decompression Course is the next step.
Using the latest technology in CCR’s can maximize your gas supply and provide an optimum breathing gas for any depth by maintaining a constant partial pressure of oxygen.
Like having a blending station on your back, a CCR is the ultimate tool for technical divers.
This is the second level certification course for divers wishing to utilize a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) for mixed gas diving using a Helitrox Diluent.
The objective of the course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures for diving a CCR and to develop basic CCR diving skills, to a maximum of 45 metres/150 feet, using an air/nitrox/helium diluent for formal decompression diving.
Students are permitted to utilize a diluent and bailout mix with no greater than a 20% helium content and no less than a 21% oxygen content, and are permitted to use up to 100% oxygen for decompression.
As a TDI CCR Air Diluent Decompression or Helitrox Diluent Decompression Diver, the TDI Mixed Gas CCR Diver course is your next step into closed circuit rebreather diving, it is your opportunity to explore a little deeper.
Using the latest in technology CCR’s maximize your gas supply and provide the optimum breathing gas for any depth by maintaining a constant partial pressure of oxygen (PPO2).
During the dives your TDI Instructor will teach you all the necessary skills to conduct CCR dives utilizing helium as a diluent gas and oxygen levels as low as 16 percent to a maximum depth of 60 metres/200 feet.
The highest level of Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) training that TDI offers, the Advanced Mixed Gas Course will teach you how to use the full capabilities of a CCR.
With a maximum depth of 100 metres/330 feet, this course opens up a whole new realm of diving including new wrecks, caves and walls to explore in depths you previously could not reach on a rebreather.
This intensive course conducted over seven dives will focus on all the elements needed to plan and execute dives to these depths.
The TDI Cave Survey Diver Course is designed to give the trained cave diver the minimum knowledge and basic fundamental skills of how to survey in the unique underwater cave environment.
The intention of this program is to encourage a standardization of cave surveying on all projects; encourage the use of cave maps in dive planning while increasing the diver’s awareness and knowledge of the surrounding environment.
Safe techniques, procedures and skill perfection associated with surveying in cave diving is emphasized.
The purpose of the TDI Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) Course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of using DPV’s while technical diving.
Upon successful completion of the TDI Diver Propulsion Vehicle Specialty training, the student will be able to: demonstrate comprehension of the practical knowledge necessary for DPV diving, properly plan and safely conduct DPV dives, and implement techniques and procedures to manage and minimize DPV diving hazards.
This course is the first stage in the TDI Mine Diver Development Program and is an introduction to the basic principles of mine diving utilizing a single primary guide line.
This introduction is not intended to train divers for all facets of mine diving.
The objective of this course is the perfection of skills taught in the TDI Cavern Diving Program, in addition to the adoption of additional techniques and procedures required for elementary mine dives.
This course may be combined with TDI Mine Diver Level II at the discretion of the instructor.
This course uses the same principles and techniques as the TDI Intro to Cave Course, including utilizing the same training materials and equipment.
However, dual certification is not permitted and graduates wishing to dive in caves must complete the TDI Intro to Cave Course.
WHAT MAKES THE NEW SDI/TDI SIDEMOUNT DIVER PROGRAM BETTER?
The new SDI/TDI Sidemount Diver program is far more than just another “how to” book on sidemount diving.
It’s a complete, comprehensive set of training materials designed to work together to make learning and teaching sidemount diving easy. These materials include:
Student manual
Knowledge Quest workbook
Instructor Guide
Power-Point presentations
Digital Instructor Resource
Final exams and answer keys
On top of this, all of this information is available as an SDI/TDI eLearning course that covers the same material, in the same sequence, and in the same depth.
The new Sidemount Diver course materials save retailers and instructors time, as they don’t need to go to several different sources to assemble the materials needed to teach a comprehensive course, nor do they need to take the time necessary to come up with their own quizzes, exams and similar teaching tools.
Further, they do not have to explain to students and customers why eLearning is not available for this course because it is.
You can use the same materials to teach or take everything from an SDI open-water Sidemount Diver course to a TDI technical diving course for deep, cave or wreck.
Benefit: The new program saves retailers and instructor money, as there is no need to invest in multiple sets of materials to teach what are, essentially, the same course, just to different audiences.
Rather than take a dogmatic “my way or the highway” approach to Sidemount Diver training, the SDI/TDI program covers the broad range of equipment, procedures and techniques used by experienced sidemount divers around the world.
The new course materials don’t put retailers and instructors in the awkward position of having to explain why what the instructor and retailer prefer teaching and selling is at odds with what the materials say is the “one and only way” to do things.
The TDI Stage Cave Diver Course is designed to teach trained cave divers how to extend bottom times and/or penetration distance through the use of stage cylinders.
Divers will learn to plan dives that may incorporate longer bottom times, complex dive planning, and multiple methods of gas management.
With respect to depth, gas mixes, and required decompression, course dives will not exceed the student’s current level of certification and experience level.
This course is designed to teach trained cave divers how to utilize Diver Propulsion Vehicles (DPVs) in the cave environment.
Divers will learn about safe DPV use, DPV components, and care and maintenance.
Students will learn to plan dives that may incorporate extended penetration, longer bottom times, complex dive planning, and proper methods of gas management.
Are you ready to progress on as a Gas Blender? The TDI Advanced Gas Blender Course picks up where you left off in the previous sequence in training, the TDI Nitrox Gas Blender course.
After successful completion of the TDI Advanced Gas Blender course, you will be able to engage in the blending of oxygen and helium based gases.
The objective of this course is to train candidates in the proper procedures needed for the preparation and blending of high quality nitrox and trimix gases for use in technical diving.
The TDI Advanced Gas Blender course will take you through this process in an easy-to-understand format.
The TDI Oxygen (O2) Equipment Service Technician Course allows candidates the ability to engage in the preparation of scuba equipment for the use and exposure of oxygen and other mixed gasses used in technical diving.
The objective of this course is to train candidates in the proper procedures required for oxygen equipment cleaning.
This course may be combined with the Visual Inspection Procedures course at the discretion of the Instructor.
Are you a serious adventure seeker wishing to explore overhead environments? Sign up for the TDI Cavern Diver course!
This course is designed to develop the minimum skills and knowledge for cavern and overhead environment diving within the limits of light penetration, and outline specific hazards associated with cave diving.
The cavern diver course in not intended to provide instruction for cave diving environments.
The objective of this course is to train divers in the proper planning, procedures, techniques and hazards of cavern diving.
This course is designed to develop the minimum skills and knowledge for diving a TDI approved rebreather in cavern and overhead environments within the limits of light penetration; in addition, outline specific hazards associated with rebreather cave diving.
The Rebreather Cavern course is not intended to provide instruction for diving in cave environments.
The objective of this course is to train divers in the proper planning, procedures, techniques and hazards of rebreather cavern diving.
Are you ready to pick up where you left off in the TDI Rebreather Cavern Diver Course?
Are you looking to expand upon the skills developed in your previous overhead environment training?
Sign up for the TDI Rebreather Intro to Cave Diver Course!
This course introduces the basic principles of rebreather cave diving utilizing a single primary guide line.
The TDI Rebreather Introductory Cave Diver is the second level in the development of safe techniques for rebreather cave diving, directly building upon the TDI Rebreather Cavern Diver Course.
This introduction to cave diving is not intended to train divers for all facets of rebreather cave diving.
The objective of this course is the perfection of skills taught in the TDI Rebreather Cavern Diver Program, in addition to the adoption of additional techniques and procedures required for elementary rebreather cave dives.
Are you a serious adventure seeker wishing to explore overhead environments? Sign up for the TDI Full Cave Diver Course!
This course is the third stage of overhead environment training in the series of TDI’s Full Cave Diver Development Program.
Advanced cave dive planning, practical execution of different types of cave systems and scenarios divers encounter are presented.
This cave diving course is not intended to prepare divers for evaluating all facets of cave diving.
The objective of this course is to expand and critique previous skills accomplished in the TDI Cavern and Introductory Cave Diving programs. Emphasis is placed upon dive planning and skill perfection through actual cave penetration.
Are you a Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) diver who is a serious adventure seeker wishing to explore overhead environments?
Sign up for the TDI Full Cave Diver Course!This course is the third stage of overhead environment training in the series of TDI’s Rebreather Full Cave Diver Development Program. Advanced rebreather cave dive planning, the practical execution of different types of cave systems and scenarios divers encounter are presented.
This cave diving course is not intended to prepare divers for evaluating all facets of cave diving. The objective of this course is to expand and critique previous skills accomplished in the TDI Rebreather Cavern and Introductory Cave Diving Programs. Emphasis is placed upon dive planning, bailout range requirements, and skill perfection through actual cave penetration.
The TDI Non-Diving Specialty Instructor Course is designed to teach members of the scuba diving industry such as: store owners, service technicians, etc. the knowledge to safely function as an independent instructor of the non-diving specialties listed below:
Visual Inspection Procedures
Other non-diving specialties, i.e. unique specialties, offered by TDI (subject to headquarter’s approval)
In order to become an instructor for one of the above courses; a candidate must be certified by a qualified instructor trainer; experience based upgrades are not available. Instructors who hold equivalent certifications with a recognized agency and wish to cross over as a non-diving specialty instructor may do so by applying via current instructor crossover procedures.
The TDI Divemaster Course is the first professional level certification in the TDI leadership levels. During this course you will be challenged and learn what it is like to work with divers as they begin or continue their technical diving experiences. You will learn how to manage divers, work as land or boat support, and conduct enjoyable dives. Dive physics, physiology, how conduct pre-dive briefing, how to assist technical instructors as well as how to be a professional TDI Divemaster is all part of the course. Your skills will be refined to demonstration quality and your knowledge increased to that of a technical diving professional.
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Are you an experienced dive instructor and passionate technical diver, and do you want to join the ranks of some the top technical diving instructors in the world? Get started with a TDI Instructor Course. Starting at the entry levels, you will learn the fundamentals skills, requirements and be evaluated on proper techniques for conducting technical diver courses. As you gain teaching and diving experience, you will qualify to enter higher level instructor programs.
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The Instructor Trainer Workshop (ITW) is an intense eight day course that includes academic, pool, and open water sessions. The ITW trains candidates as full evaluators, to conduct TDI Instructor Courses independently. A corresponding, current instructor level rating must be held for all IT levels, along with minimum student certifications as detailed in this outline. During this course, you will work directly with the headquarters staff presenting and evaluating various subjects such as: methods of instruction, dive leader risk management, the business of scuba diving, as well as teaching technical instructor level courses.
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Technical Diving Courses
TDI Nitrox course is an entry level course for divers, to utilize enriched air nitrox as a breathing gas. Allowing more time underwater than the usual recreational time limits.
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Technical Diving Courses
The TDI Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitro from EAN 21 through EAN 100 within your current certification level to a maximum depth of 40m, during dives that do not require staged decompression.
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Are you ready to pick up where you left off in the TDI Cavern Diver Course? Are you looking to expand upon the skills developed in your previous overhead environment training? Sign up for the TDI Intro to Cave Diver Course!
This course is an introduction to the basic principles of cave diving utilizing a single primary guide line.
Introductory cave diving is the second level in the development of proper techniques for cave diving, directly building upon the cavern diver course. This introduction to cave diving is not intended to train divers for all facets of cave diving.
The objective of this course is the perfection of skills taught in the cavern diving program, in addition to the adoption of additional techniques and procedures required for elementary cave dives.
Have you ever wondered how your nitrox cylinders are filled? Do you like the “behind the scenes” look at what makes a dive happen?
Take the TDI Nitrox Gas Blender Course to find out how your cylinders get filled with nitrox!
The TDI Nitrox Gas Blender Course will take you through the blending of nitrox in an easy-to-understand format.
This course provides the training required to competently blend nitrox gas.
The objective of this course is to train candidates in the proper techniques, equipment requirements and hazards involved in blending nitrox gases for recreational scuba diving activities.