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 students through the special techniques, planning procedures and skills that set technical diving apart from traditional sport diving. It will show you how to improve, dive planning methods, in-water skills and streamlining your gear configuration, in a non-threatening and fun learning environment.
Candidate Pre-Requisites:
- Be a minimum age of 18 / 15 with parental consent.
- Minimum certification of PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent
- Show proof of 25 logged open water dives.
Equipment Requirements:
- SMB & Reel and cutting tool
- Underwater slate or notepad
- Alternative second stage attached to a primary regulator or redundant scuba unit
- Exposure suit adequate for the open water environment (dry suit recommended)
- Depth gauge and automatic bottom timer and / or dive computer
Some of the Graduation Requirements:
- Demonstrate adequate buoyancy control (ability to hover at fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet)
- Demonstrate adequate trim (ability to maintain horizontal during the descent, bottom and ascent portion of the dive)
- Demonstrate no-silting propulsion techniques (frog kick, modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick)
- Demonstrate the ability to perform the following exercises while maintaining trim and buoyancy: Regulator exchange, Regulator recovery, Partial flooding of mask and Mask removal
- Ability to perform a valve trim (if twinset is being used)
- Ability to deploy SMB while maintaining trim and buoyancy
- Show good situation awareness