TDI Advanced Wreck Diver

The TDI Advanced Wreck Diver Course is the next step for any diver that has successfully completed any Wreck Diver Course. During this course, your TDI Instructor will teach you the proper techniques for locating and planning an advanced penetration dive.

On the course you will learn:

How to use advanced wreck diving equipment including:

• Primary cylinder(s)-dual outlet single tank, independent doubles, or doubles with isolation manifold
• Decompression/stage cylinders
• Redundant primary regulators
• Primary and back-up lighting systems
• Penetration/safety reels
• Lift bag/SMBs

Wreck penetration procedures

• Equipment selection
• Pre-dive checks and drills
• Stress analysis and mitigation
• Guideline use, deployment, following, retrieval
• Team awareness and communication
• Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss, omitted decompression, navigational errors, entrapment/entanglement, loss of visibility, injured/unconscious diver, etc)
• SMB/lift bag deployment 

The course you will complete six penetration dives into a shipwreck and receive 8 hours of classroom theory. Gear hire is available along with Nitrox gas. Course sizes are strictly limited to four students so book early. 

Student Prerequisites

1. Minimum age 18

2. Certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent

3. Provide proof of a minimum of 50 logged dives

4. Be certified as Basic Wreck or Cavern Diver or equivalent 

Price excludes: gear hire & nitrox gas