TDI Technical Diving
TDI Intro to Tech Diving Course
Build the foundations that support every later stage of technical diving. Intro to Tech develops precise buoyancy, trim, propulsion, awareness, gas planning and equipment-management skills in a non-decompression training environment.
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Who This Course Is For
- Certified divers considering a technical-diving pathway.
- Divers who want stronger buoyancy, trim and propulsion before progressing.
- Technical divers returning after a break who would benefit from a fundamentals review.
Prerequisites and Readiness
- Minimum age 18, or 15 with parental consent.
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent.
- Proof of at least 25 logged open-water dives.
- Comfort with basic mask, regulator and gas-sharing skills.
- A configuration appropriate to the training objectives, agreed with the instructor.
How Training Works
The course combines detailed planning and equipment sessions with at least three dives conducted no deeper than 23 metres. Skills are developed in neutral buoyancy and appropriate trim. This is not a staged-decompression course and no training dive exceeds the diver’s existing certification limits.
Course duration is performance-based. Meeting minimum attendance or dive numbers does not guarantee certification; all required knowledge and skills must be demonstrated consistently.
Skills and Knowledge
Continue Your Development
Technical capability is developed through deliberate practice and experience between formal courses. Your next step should reflect your recent diving, equipment configuration and objectives.
The Blue Water Ascent approach
Competence Before Certification
We coach understanding, judgement and repeatable performance—not minimum-standard completion. Training is adapted to the diver while every certification requirement and course limit is preserved.
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