Let me word it this way., your certs expire after 1 year, this allows you to take the next level of cave training. when you get the final level cert you keep it. There are some agencies that have a use it or loose it policy, including the final. There is only one agency that does not have one for the training pipeline process and that may be changing also.
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Teller i just pm's you contact information for an instructor in fla for you. tell him i gave it ot you. I would take perhaps a year to go through the process of cavern to intro to apprentice to full cave diver. If you cant frog kick then forget it till you do. Tell him i said that and give him a chuckle.
Im not saying that 25 dives is hard to get in three years. Im simply saying I will only be in FL three years and could be anywhere in the world after that. All my tech training so far has been thru TDI but I am intrested in trying a GUE class. If I cant get back to FL for say 5 years I dont want to just lose my cert. Is there anyway to get the cert reinstated after it has expired? If for instance I didnt do any trimix dives for three years I wouldnt lose my TDI Trimix cert, it would be up to me to take things slow as I got back in to it and not just go attempt a 300' dive after such a long break.
Rob,
While im in FL I imagine I could log a few hundred cave dives over a three year period but my concern was if I leave the state for a few years I wouldnt have a valid cave cert anymore. Just wondering if anyone else has had this issue?
---------- Post added March 9th, 2013 at 02:21 PM ----------
Teller i just pm's you contact information for an instructor in fla for you. tell him i gave it ot you. I would take perhaps a year to go through the process of cavern to intro to apprentice to full cave diver. If you cant frog kick then forget it till you do. Tell him i said that and give him a chuckle.
I am in the Army and will be moving to Florida soon for about three years. I would like to get in to cave diving and I am considering taking fundies and then on to cave 1. My only concern is once I move again chances are I wont be near caves and unable to meet the 25 dives in order to renew. If my cert expires do I have to complete the entire course again?