TDI Cavern

Are you a serious adventure seeker wishing to explore overhead environments? Sign up for the TDI Cavern Diver course!This course is designed to develop the minimum skills and knowledge for cavern and overhead environment diving within the limits of light penetration, and outline specific hazards associated with cave diving. The cavern diver course in not intended to provide instruction for cave diving environments. The objective of this course is to train divers in the proper planning, procedures, techniques and hazards of cavern diving.

Who this course is for:

• The certified diver who has interest in moving forward with overhead environment diving and expanding their diving techniques, capabilities, and more!

Course Duration:

Courses should not be treated as a race or something that can be skipped through quickly. Please remember training does not guarantee certification, we need to ensure you fully understand the training and will be a safe diver on certification. We follow a loved one clause that when certified we would be happy you could safely dive with one of our loved ones.

Course prerequisites & forms:

(these requirements must be met prior to commencement of training):

• Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
• Provide proof of an SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
• Proof of 25 logged dives

Forms:

Medical Form
Liability Release 

What you can expect to learn:

The TDI Cavern Diver course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:

• Policy for cavern diving
• Gas management procedures and management to include dissimilar volumes
• Psychological considerations of cavern diving
• Equipment considerations including:
• • Cylinder options
  • Regulator options
  • Buoyancy compensator/harness options
  • Proper weighting
  • Reel options
  • Equipment configurations
• Communication (light and hand signals)
• Swimming techniques
• • Body posture/trim
  • Buoyancy control
  • Line following
  • Propulsion (finning) techniques
• Physiology
• • Breathing techniques
  • Stress management
• Cavern environment
• Cavern conservation
• Problem solving
• • Emergency procedures
  • Equipment failure
  • Silting conditions
• Accident analysis
• Cavern diving etiquette
• Review of dive tables and decompression theory 

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in cavern diving activities without direct supervision so long as the following limits are adhered to:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• Planned dives do not exceed diver’s current certification level
• Penetration is limited to the “rule of thirds,” OR 1/6th if using doubles to a maximum depth of 40 metres/130 feet
• Penetration is limited to 61 linear metres/200 linear feet from the surface
• Proper cavern diving equipment must be used
• Maintain a continuous guideline
• No restrictions or areas that are too small for 2 divers to swim side by side
• Safety stops as appropriate or necessary

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Price & Value:

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*Fully inclusive of all e-learning, training and certification on successful completion. Gas costs are separate and instructors Gas bill must be covered by students.

We focus on and are proud of the skill level, knowledge, decision making, experience and readiness of divers to dive at levels which they have been trained. We want to invest in you, your safety and ability to dive, then come home with amazing stories.

Our courses are priced as such and we do not hide additional costs. We are are very flexible for training, especially in terms of dates or location as we know we all have busy lives and work commitments. However if for reasons outside of weather, illness or other such emergencies a course/training can not be completed in the standard training schedule we will charge for extra days at €150,00 per day.