The focus of this course is to give students the tools needed to be successful in technical diving courses. This is achieved by focusing on improvement and mastery of the fundamental skills of diving and a small increase in task loading. This course will show students mastery of the skills and give them the tools required to assess their own diving abilities as they move on in their diving career. In addition to fundamental skill mastery, students will be taught advanced dive planning, propulsion techniques, improving situational awareness, bottle handling, leadership, a minimalist approach for equipment, and unified team diving concepts. This is a great course that will improve any diver's abilities and will create a thinking diver.

In this course, students will conduct a minimum of eight (8) dives over three days. Each dive will gradually increase the task loading and failure handling of the students. By the end of the course, students should be able to perform fundamental skills while neutrally buoyant and in good trim, while under small amounts of stress.

Tuition for this course is $400 and includes supplemental materials (not offered by TDI) and certification fees.

Required Equipment:

* Regulator with primary 2nd stage on a 7' hose, backup 2nd
stage on a bungee necklace, SPG, BCD inflation hose, dry
suit inflation hose (if needed)
* Buoyancy Compensating Device (BCD)
* Depth gauge and bottom timer device
* Low volume mask
* Stiff fins (i.e. non-split type)
* Weighting system
* Exposure suit adequate for conditions
* Single or Double tank configuration

Recommended Equipment:

* Backplate w/ one piece continuous harness
* Wing style BCD
* Primary light (i.e. Canister style)
* Backup light
* Backup mask
* Surface Marker Buoy (SMB)
* Finger spool
* Wetnotes