UTD Essential of Overhead

The Essentials of Overhead Diving course is designed to cultivate the fundamental techniques required by all
sound wreck, and cave diving practice. Essentials of Overhead functions as a technical entry point for all
previously certified divers and can be seen as the prerequisite for all other overhead UTD classes. Essentials of Overhead is very similar to Essentials of Tech, but it replaces certain open water skills (SMB deploy and deco bottle handling) with skills used in the overhead enviornment, such as primary reel and spool handling, guideline laying and retrieving.
Essentials of Overhead focuses on the divers’ critical bottom skills. The training is centered around precise
buoyancy control, team awareness, and controlled ascent procedures including guideline use.