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It may have began when you were swimming over your first steep drop off
and were intrigues by the darkness and depths below, that’s how I was
first fascinated by the deeper world of technical diving after hearing
about, and diving in, the infamous Blue Hole in Dahab, Egypt.
Or maybe your interest came from reading dive articles on pioneering
exploration dives and the cutting edge of dive technology aroused your
curiosity in the nature of deeper diving, for others it may have been
the allure of discovering different aquatic life or ancient wrecks that
motivated them to invest the time, effort and money into technical
diver training. Whatever your motivation for extending your
bottom time, or for diving to depths beyond the traditional limits of
recreational diving, you’ll find that I can offer a complete and
comprehensive range of technical diver programs through the Utila Dive
Centre that will train and qualify you to safely dive beyond the
conventional limits of recreational scuba diving.
Technical diving can be defined as diving deeper than 130ft/40mt,
requiring staged decompression procedures, diving in an overhead
environment beyond 130 linear feet or 40 linear meters of the surface,
accelerated decompression and/or the use of variable gas mixtures
throughout the dive mainly consisting of Oxygen, Nitrogen and
Helium. Technical diving is not for everyone and has high
physical demands and requires complex and extensive training
requirements, which limits this area of diving to a very select group
of divers. If you have the experience in recreational diving and
are willing to commit then I have the staff, facility and experience to
train you as a safe, competent and disciplined technical diver.
Utila Dive Centre is both a PADI Career Development Center and an IANTD
Instructor Training facility, which means that together we can offer
comprehensive technical diver training programs, up to a Trimix
Instructor level, from the 2 most credible dive training agencies in
the dive industry. During your training with us you will receive
classroom sessions supported with the latest teaching materials and
‘Microsoft PowerPoint’ presentations and training from world wide
experienced Instructors (tuition in several languages) who have
familiarity and competent diving skills in several different
environments. I do not believe in technical group sizes of no
more than 4 divers to 1 Instructor and will bring in additional staff
if conditions/group progress dictates.
Our standards are high and when you undertake your training with us
that is exactly what you are investing in, training not certification,
so you can be assured that when you complete our programs you will have
attained a high standard of technical dive skill and knowledge.
Our ‘Open Water’ training dives will be conducted on the Southside of
Utila before we venture to the deeper Northside walls of the island and
the remote outer banks for the final dives of the more advanced
technical courses we offer. Utila Dive Centre’s boats are modern
and well equipped and safety/comfort orientated and we have our own gas
blending station for mixes of ‘trimix’ and ‘nitrox’ and 2 Bauer
compressors.
Whether you undertake a course through DSAT or IANTD you can be assured
that the standard of in water training will be very similar, what will
differ will be the training methodology and materials used during the
program, we’ll counsel with you to make sure that the program you take
is what is best suited for your personal and professional needs.
It doesn’t just have to be about training, if you are already a
qualified ‘extended range/technical diver’ or ‘trimix’ diver then I can
custom tailor technical diving packages for individuals or groups that
can provide you with your own boat, guides and logistical support teams.
Please read on for information about our different technical diver
programs or for more specific information please feel free to contact
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