TDI Intro to Tech Instructor

TDI Intro to Tech Instructor

The TDI Intro to Tech Instructor course provides the training required to competently and safely introduce students to the world of technical diving. The objective of this course is to train instructors to familiarize students with technical equipment configurations, to enhance open water diving skills (such as buoyancy, trim, and situational awareness), and to introduce advanced gas planning techniques within a no-decompression context. Although taught in conjunction with material from the TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures courses, this course is strictly a no-decompression course; students are permitted to use enriched air nitrox mixes, provided the gas mix is within their current level of certification

Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate:

Land drills-Properly analyze gas mixtures

Land drills-Selection and preparation of equipment

Land drills-Conduct team oriented skills (buddy checks) for lift bag deployment

Land drills-Gas matching among buddy teams

Land drills-Demonstrate familiarity with basic hand signals

Land drills-Demonstrate adequate pre-dive planning with limits based on the team and personal gas consumption

Pre-dive drills-Use S.T.A.R.T. * before every dive

Pre-dive drills-Stress analysis and mitigation

In-water drills-Weight check

In-water drills-Demonstrate adequate buoyancy control; ability to hover at fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet

In-water drills-Demonstrate adequate trim; ability to maintain horizontal during the descent, bottom and ascent portion of the dive

In-water drills-Demonstrate no-silting propulsion techniques; frog kick, modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick

In-water drills-Demonstrate the ability to perform the following exercises while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column

In-water drills-Demonstrate the ability to perform a safety drill (S-drill) while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column

In-water drills-Demonstrate the ability to perform a valve drill while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column

In-water drills-Demonstrate the ability to deploy a surface marker buoy or lift bag while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column

In-water drills-Demonstrate emergency deployment of a backup regulator or bail-out scuba system

In-water drills-Demonstrate a simulated emergency gas sharing at a stationary depth

In-water drills-Contingency situations and problems solving (as appropriate by instructor trainer)

In-water drills-A proper stop of at least 3 minutes shall be conducted on all dives and proper staged decompression stops whenever and wherever required

In-water drills-Demonstrate good buoyancy control and situational awareness throughout the dive

In-water drills-Show good situational awareness

Course prerequisites:

Certified as an SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor, or equivalent

Certified as a Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures diver, or equivalent

Or

Certified as a TDI Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures Instructor, or equivalent

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TDI Intro to Tech Instructor