The history of diving finds its roots in what can only be characterized as “technical diving”.  Whether it was Pharaohs people being sent to salvage goods from a sunken sailing vessel, a scallop diver being manually pumped air down thru a hose to make a living, or a man in a suite with lead shoes walking on the bottom for a military or civilian project.  All of these endeavors were considered technical for there day.  The first use of a SCUBA unit was to free some trapped miners using a rebreather to walk through a dark tunnel and open a valve to allow the water to be pumped out.  This took place 1865.  The technology was crude and developed slowly mostly for military applications.  It wasn’t until nearly eighty years after that first walk through the mine that a SCUBA unit, similar to what is used by most divers today, was developed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a small team of engineers.  Today military and commercial diving still has a prominent place in the diving community.  This is were a lot of the knowledge is acquired that is used to make SCUBA diving as safe a sport as it is today.

Today technical diver training offers divers a vehicle to:

1. Expand there knowledge and add new skills.
2. See what is below 130 feet.
3. Learn to use rebreathers.
4. Get to that deep wreck.
5. Explore caves and wreck interiors.
6. Buzz along a reef, wreck, or cave interior on a Diver Propulsion Vehicle or DPV.

The full range of technical diving courses can be offered through us or through one of our partner firms.

We offer the following courses:

1. TDI Nitrox.
2. TDI Advanced Nitrox.
3. TDI Inspiration Rebreather Module I Courses locally

Contact us for details.