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I am looking for a dive buddy for UTD Tech 1 January 16-18 in Monterey CA. The instructor is Andrew Georgitsis ()
Please send a PM if you are interested.
Technical Diver Level 1 (Tech 1) - Unified Team Diving
Tech 1 training focuses on the divers bottom skills, ascent skills expanding on the Intro to Tech skills, and is designed to cultivate, integrate, and test these skills, which are essential for safe technical diving. This critical training will include bottom failures, midwater failures, problem identification and resolution and building the capacity for progressively more challenging diving.
In this class, students will be trained in the use of double tanks/cylinders and in the potential failure problems associated with them, the use of 100% Oxygen for accelerated decompression, the use of Helium to minimize narcosis, and the applications of single decompression stage diving with respect to decompression procedures.
This class provides an excellent foundation on which divers can build their technical diving experience in the 130'/39m range using a single decompression bottle.
Prerequisites
■Minimum 18 years of age
■UTD Intro to Tech and Nitrox or equivalent
■A minimum of 75 dives beyond open water qualification
■Minimum of 25 dives beyond the Intro To Tech certification
Course Limits
■Maximum depth 130/39m
■Standard back-gases are Nitrox 32 and Helitrox 25/25
■Decompression gas is 100% O2, limited to one single cycle of oxygen per dive
■One deco bottle.
Who is this class designed for?
Consider the following with respect to your deeper diving pursuits.
■How fun are those deep dives if you aren't comfortable?
■You have doubles, but do you know how to handle a failure as a team?
■Would you enjoy your dives more if you felt more confident in your diving and emergency skills?
■Would you like current and depth and darkness not to affect your diving at all?
This class is designed for those individuals who like to learn by doing, not just thinking. With an emphasis on practical, in-training through development and "simulator dives", it's just the thing to get your brain working while you're finning and hovering. And for those yearning for a better understanding of the monster of decompression, we start at the beginning, and work carefully to our present understanding. If you're ready to take the next step into technical diving.
Why this class?
The presence of helium into the diving community is not new as helium has been used for diving for many years, but only more recently accepted into the recreational limits. The benefits of diving helium are multifaceted, even for the recreational diver. Ranging from better sense of well-being during the dive, to a better memory after the dive, adding helium to your breathing gas increases your enjoyment without creating any more risk. In this course, you will learn the use of Nitrox and Helitrox for extended bottom times and how helium minimizes narcosis, CO2, gas density and post dive "nitrogen stress".
To round it all out, Helitrox introduces effective ascent procedures to accentuate the benefits of the gas mix and associated training. All these elements combined equal a far safer diving experience in the 80 (24m) - 130 ft (39m) range which makes this class an excellent resource for anyone looking to make the most out of the time they have for diving. When merged with other skills such as team diving and precision diver control, individuals are able to appreciate a whole new way of diving, having more fun while diving safer and more responsibly. Simply put, these techniques and principles enable divers to maximize their personal abilities and eliminate some of the frustrations common in conventional diving.
Class Information
This class is structured around 3 days, and involves a minimum of 8 hours of classroom instruction and 8 dives (2 - 4 practice dives, 4 critical skill dives, and 2 are experience dives). This class is designed to provide a working knowledge of Nitrox/Helitrox, Oxygen Decompression including an understanding of the history and practice of decompression, physics, physiology, tables, minimum deco (within N.D.L.) on the fly and other operational considerations. This course is a extended decompression class, divers in this depth range must be aware of entering into extended decompression commitments and should be prepared to do Oxytgen (O2) Decompression after extended bottom times at a max depth of 130'/39m.
Day 1. Typically we begin with a 3 - 4 hour initial session consisting of introductions, and dry runs (on land) of the skills and some practice before entering the water. Skills include improving a divers understand of air sharing, valve management, ascent procedures and surface marker buoy deployment. Students then have four (4) dives putting these skills and concepts into actual practice. We conclude with a video review and a few more hours of lecture.
Day 2. The second day is much the same as the first, including dry runs on land, 4 more dives (on Helitrox), video review and more lecture on Helitrox, decompression history and strategies, table analysis and ratio deco.
Day 3. The third day is centered around gaining experience in the environment. You will conduct two dives to a max depth of 130ft (39m) on 25/25, utilizing O2 for accelerated decompression. The dives will be followed by video debriefing and the review of the test.
Please send a PM if you are interested.
Technical Diver Level 1 (Tech 1) - Unified Team Diving
Tech 1 training focuses on the divers bottom skills, ascent skills expanding on the Intro to Tech skills, and is designed to cultivate, integrate, and test these skills, which are essential for safe technical diving. This critical training will include bottom failures, midwater failures, problem identification and resolution and building the capacity for progressively more challenging diving.
In this class, students will be trained in the use of double tanks/cylinders and in the potential failure problems associated with them, the use of 100% Oxygen for accelerated decompression, the use of Helium to minimize narcosis, and the applications of single decompression stage diving with respect to decompression procedures.
This class provides an excellent foundation on which divers can build their technical diving experience in the 130'/39m range using a single decompression bottle.
Prerequisites
■Minimum 18 years of age
■UTD Intro to Tech and Nitrox or equivalent
■A minimum of 75 dives beyond open water qualification
■Minimum of 25 dives beyond the Intro To Tech certification
Course Limits
■Maximum depth 130/39m
■Standard back-gases are Nitrox 32 and Helitrox 25/25
■Decompression gas is 100% O2, limited to one single cycle of oxygen per dive
■One deco bottle.
Who is this class designed for?
Consider the following with respect to your deeper diving pursuits.
■How fun are those deep dives if you aren't comfortable?
■You have doubles, but do you know how to handle a failure as a team?
■Would you enjoy your dives more if you felt more confident in your diving and emergency skills?
■Would you like current and depth and darkness not to affect your diving at all?
This class is designed for those individuals who like to learn by doing, not just thinking. With an emphasis on practical, in-training through development and "simulator dives", it's just the thing to get your brain working while you're finning and hovering. And for those yearning for a better understanding of the monster of decompression, we start at the beginning, and work carefully to our present understanding. If you're ready to take the next step into technical diving.
Why this class?
The presence of helium into the diving community is not new as helium has been used for diving for many years, but only more recently accepted into the recreational limits. The benefits of diving helium are multifaceted, even for the recreational diver. Ranging from better sense of well-being during the dive, to a better memory after the dive, adding helium to your breathing gas increases your enjoyment without creating any more risk. In this course, you will learn the use of Nitrox and Helitrox for extended bottom times and how helium minimizes narcosis, CO2, gas density and post dive "nitrogen stress".
To round it all out, Helitrox introduces effective ascent procedures to accentuate the benefits of the gas mix and associated training. All these elements combined equal a far safer diving experience in the 80 (24m) - 130 ft (39m) range which makes this class an excellent resource for anyone looking to make the most out of the time they have for diving. When merged with other skills such as team diving and precision diver control, individuals are able to appreciate a whole new way of diving, having more fun while diving safer and more responsibly. Simply put, these techniques and principles enable divers to maximize their personal abilities and eliminate some of the frustrations common in conventional diving.
Class Information
This class is structured around 3 days, and involves a minimum of 8 hours of classroom instruction and 8 dives (2 - 4 practice dives, 4 critical skill dives, and 2 are experience dives). This class is designed to provide a working knowledge of Nitrox/Helitrox, Oxygen Decompression including an understanding of the history and practice of decompression, physics, physiology, tables, minimum deco (within N.D.L.) on the fly and other operational considerations. This course is a extended decompression class, divers in this depth range must be aware of entering into extended decompression commitments and should be prepared to do Oxytgen (O2) Decompression after extended bottom times at a max depth of 130'/39m.
Day 1. Typically we begin with a 3 - 4 hour initial session consisting of introductions, and dry runs (on land) of the skills and some practice before entering the water. Skills include improving a divers understand of air sharing, valve management, ascent procedures and surface marker buoy deployment. Students then have four (4) dives putting these skills and concepts into actual practice. We conclude with a video review and a few more hours of lecture.
Day 2. The second day is much the same as the first, including dry runs on land, 4 more dives (on Helitrox), video review and more lecture on Helitrox, decompression history and strategies, table analysis and ratio deco.
Day 3. The third day is centered around gaining experience in the environment. You will conduct two dives to a max depth of 130ft (39m) on 25/25, utilizing O2 for accelerated decompression. The dives will be followed by video debriefing and the review of the test.
