Tech 1 Diver, 160ft/48m

$169.00

  • Explore deeper
  • Focus on refining your skill level in mid-water
  • Learn to solve more complex failures
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Tech 1 Diver

Limits: Max depth: 49m  / 160ft
Deco: Max 30 minutes of decompression obligation, 1 deco cylinder
Gasses: Nx32%, Tmx 25/25. Tmx 21/35, Deco gas: Nx 50%

THESE MATERIALS ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE TECHNICAL DIVER PACKAGE, CONSIDER BEFORE BUYING. YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET THE PACKAGE AS IT HAS A MUCH GREATER VALUE IF YOU PLAN TO TAKE FURTHER TECHNICAL TRAINING.


This is a technical diving course that continues from the techreational level.  You get to go a little deeper and now utilize Nitrox 50% as a decompression gas. This has to do with the deeper depth and RockBottom (Gasreserve) requirements.

UTD Trains technical diving is a completely different way than traditional technical diving is trained. We call this level of training “Critical Skills Training”. You will not see your instructor much during the training dives, as a matter of fact, we don’t really call them training dives, we call them real dives because that’s what they are. The dives are set up in such a way that we can give the Team a goal or objective for the dive. And the instructor gives the team failures that make the team work together to deal with the failure. Usually, the failures are a result of the team making small mistakes during their dive. 

The Tech 1 course will now focus more on solving problems in deeper water and away from the bottom. This even further improves your comfort level. This will also prepare you for the future where more of the dives is done in mid-water than on the bottom when you progress to Tech 2 diver and beyond. You will become a stronger diver with a deep understanding of what it takes to perform these deeper dives safely and still have fun. 

Sometimes this Techreational course is combined with this Tech 1 course It depends on the level of comfort with diving a twinset and the history of general diving experience. Together with your instructor, you can discuss the possibilities. 

To start this course you need to have the UTD Techreational level or equivalent and need to be comfortable with the basic personal skills that are required for technical diving. Skills like proper finning techniques like frog kick and back kick. Also, valve drills and gas-switching procedures need to be a no-brainer for you. If you feel you need some more work in these areas we suggest taking the Essentials of Tech course. This is a personal skills course that will fully prepare you for technical diving.

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