Matt is highly recommended. Excellent communicator. Willing to share anecdotes from his wealth of real world experience and still does his own diving outside of teaching. Highly knowledgeable. Provides thought-out answers and ensures the student understands the answer fully before moving on. Great ability to develop relations. Has all the qualities you want in a technical diving instructor. What I really like is that he is still passionate and enthusiastic about teaching and diving, and so is also very happy and willing to mentor and support newer, younger divers in their career. Sound man

The technical rescue diver is trained to operate in a highly stressed rescue environment. Their water skills are honed to perfection. They have the knowledge and skill to extinguish sparks that set off error chains. In addition they can conduct effective risk assessments, prepare emergency plans and have the skills and knowledge to be an effective safety diver.

What’s Involved

This course has three components: Knowledge development, practical application and open water dives, 2 skills dives and 3 rescue scenario dives. These will be scheduled to suit divers enrolled in each course.

Course Skills

Anticipating and avoiding error chains, identifying and managing stress, in water rescue skills for technical divers, O2 tox management. DCS management, role of safety diver, responding to technical diving emergencies, emergency planning.

Why Do the Course?

Technical diving is becoming a more popular pastime now among st all divers. Dives are becoming longer and deeper and using mixed gases and higher PO2’s leading to increased risks of toxicity, thermal and physical stress. A recreational rescue course is no longer sufficient to adequately manage a technical diving incident. In addition many technical dives are conducted further afield and further from help. Learn how to help yourself and others in the high stress situations faced in the technical field.

What’s Included

The course fee covers instructional time, manual, use of facilities including pool. Students are expected to pay any boat costs and accommodation costs required to complete the course but we do have packages available. Only after the successful completion of the course do you pay your certification fee – “you pay for training – you earn the certification”

What You Need

Standard scuba equipment plus a spare mask, timing device, a dsmb, a spool/reel with 30m of line. We also strongly advise that this course is conducted using manifolded twin cylinders or in sidemount configuration. These may be rented for the duration of the course.