Tech 1

Technical Diver 1 is the first UTD Technical course that familiarizes divers with the use of Nitrox 32 and/or Helitrox 25/25 as safe bottom breathing gases for use to depths of 130’/39m utilizing a single deco bottle of decompression gas (100% O2) for accelerated decompression procedures.

Tech 1 training focuses on the diver’s bottom skills, ascent skills expanding on the Intro to Tech skills, and is designed to cultivate, integrate, and test these skills, which are essential for safe technical diving. This critical training will include bottom failures, midwater failures, problem identification and resolution and building the capacity for progressively more challenging diving.

In this class, students will be trained in the use of double tanks/cylinders and in the potential failure problems associated with them, the use of 100% Oxygen for accelerated decompression, the use of Helium to minimize narcosis, and the applications of single decompression stage diving with respect to decompression procedures.