TDI is the largest technical certification agency in the world. As one of the first agencies to provide training in mixed gas diving and rebreathers, TDI is seen as an innovator of new diving techniques and programs which previously were not available to the general public. Training with TDI has provided divers with the opportunity to see such wrecks as the Andrea Doria, Luisitania and the Prince of Wales. TDI divers have explored underwater caves in Spain, Australia and Mexico and assisted as support divers on world record free dives done in the Red Sea.
TDI’s professionals are held to the highest standard to ensure quality training throughout the world. This means that as a diver taking a TDI course, your instructor will have documented his experience and knowledge prior to achieving that rating. As an instructor candidate taking a TDI course, your TDI instructor trainer will have gone through the paces to achieve the highest level of training that TDI offers.
TDI is committed to offering the highest quality training supported by the latest materials with the most up to date information and techniques. TDI’s materials are written by authors that acutely conduct the type of diving they are writing about. Those same materials are update as technology and equipment change.
TDI Courses
Intro to Tech Diving The TDI Intro to Tech course is new for 2008 and 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 them how to improve their dive planning methods, in-water skills and streamline their 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 he intends 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 a TDI technical instructor. £200.00
Nitrox Diver Entry level certification course for recreational divers wishing to use enriched air nitrox from 21% to 40%. Minimum Age 15, with 10 logged dives. 2 Open Water dives an optional extra. £99-00 or £150-00 with 2 dives
Advanced Nitrox This program trains divers in the benefits, hazards and correct procedures for using EANx 21% through to 100% oxygen, for dives not requiring staged decompression. Minimum Age 15 if taught in conjunction with the TDI Decompression Procedure course, then minimum age of 18 applies, with 25 logged dives. £265-00
Decompression Procedures Here we look at how to plan and conduct standard decompression dives not exceeding a maximum depth of 45msw. The most common equipment requirements, gear set-ups, decompression techniques and decompression mixtures (including oxygen and nitrox). Minimum Age 18, with 25 logged dives. £265-00
Semi-Closed Rebreather Dolphin/Ray This entry level certification course is for recreational divers wishing to use one of the Drager semi-closed circuit rebreathers. We will look at the benefits, hazards and procedures for using any of the Drager SCR's. Must hold TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver certification.
