Swedtech Diving Agency

[babycover]

On the Swedtech website there is a cave course. However, I had never heard of them until this thread so I can see there might be issues with that certification in places where a recognised certification is needed to dive caves (no idea if that is the case in Australia, but it is in much of the USA)

Yes i do agree with you and i think it is the same for Australia. I just asking the Cave Association in Australia for a recognisedr list of certification.

Please let me make it a bit clearer so i can get more awesome advice from all the members.
My near future ( next yeasr) goal is to do 60 and trimix, far future ( 2 year) is Cave and wreck, possible sooner, depend on how i comfortable with 60 and trimix.
I just want to look for an short path ( because of money), high quality, provide sufficiencies skills and recognised cert worldwide.

Hence, I would love to hear the path that you all will take and which what agency ( please assumed the instructor is good) to 60m trimix
My LDSs which i can reach can provide :

• PADI
• TDI
• IANTD
• GUE ( at the moment only provide Fundermental course)
• SSI
• Swedtech

 

[KevinNM]

Many of the GUE tech instructors travel. You can contact one and see if they can set up a course or know someone who can. However the minimum is 2 divers and the maximum is 3 and it won't be cheap. Or you can travel.

For cave courses you pretty much have to travel unless you live where there are caves suitable for basic training. Depth, visibility, width etc.

 

[RainPilot]

Didn't even notice you were in Oz sorry, got lock on with Sweden.

I would have a look at RAID, headquarters in Australia and very competitive pricing as well as standards that are a bit higher than many of the rec agencies.

www.diveraid.com

They are busy finalising their cave and wreck syllabi so don't show on the site yet. Paul Toomer is the head of tech training, he is pretty well respected in the tech community.

 

[chrisch]

Yes i do agree with you and i think it is the same for Australia. I just asking the Cave Association in Australia for a recognisedr list of certification.

Please let me make it a bit clearer so i can get more awesome advice from all the members.
My near future ( next yeasr) goal is to do 60 and trimix, far future ( 2 year) is Cave and wreck, possible sooner, depend on how i comfortable with 60 and trimix.
I just want to look for an short path ( because of money), high quality, provide sufficiencies skills and recognised cert worldwide.

Hence, I would love to hear the path that you all will take and which what agency ( please assumed the instructor is good) to 60m trimix
My LDSs which i can reach can provide :

• PADI
• TDI
• IANTD
• GUE ( at the moment only provide Fundermental course)
• SSI
• Swedtech

In order to get a normoxic - 60m - trimix certification you will not find any great difference between any of the major commercial agencies. Building up to that depth is not short and easy and if your budget is limited there will be many more issues than simply which agency or which instructor to choose. Do you have some vitally important end goal that requires diving to 60m? Also bear in mind that open circuit 60m diving is very expensive in terms of gas.

For wreck penetration and cave diving the issue is not depth but being comfortable in an overhead environment. The two are similar in terms of skills base - valve shutdowns and the use of long hose primary - and both require good finning skills. This means a lot of practice and that practice is far more important (and costly) than the formal training to get a certification card.

Generally I would say that you need to do a fair bit of overhead environment diving before adding to the difficulty by combining overhead and depth. A cave dive that requires the use of trimix is something that needs a lot of work up dives and experience. Essentially you should consider cave diving as starting from zero again. Wreck penetration is not quite as demanding as you are back in open water once out the wreck, but once in a cave the only surface is right back out again. That said wrecks present other hazards that need to be thought about. Both disciplines need some fairly serious in water time before adding in the deep element. Neither will be inexpensive I'm afraid. I have been cave diving a number of years and trimix certified rather longer and still do not feel competent to undertake a deep cave dive by a very long way yet.