TDI Decompression Procedures Diver - Extend your dive limits
If you find that your no-decompression limits (NDL) is a limiting factor to your dives, the TDI Decompression Procedures Course is your solution. This course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving with a maximum operating depth of 45 meters (150 feet). Combined with the TDI Advanced Nitrox Course, it forms the essential foundation for all following technical diving training.
Who Is This Course For?
👥 Advanced Divers: Certified Advanced Divers looking to deepen their understanding of decompression theory and techniques.
👥 Bottom Time Seekers: Divers interested in extending their bottom time.
👥 Future Technical Divers: Those planning to advance their technical diving education.
What You Will Learn:
🔘 Decompression Dive Planning:
- Choose appropriate decompression gases
- Compare dive tables with personal dive computer data
- Develop emergency and contingency plans for equipment failures or omitted deco
🔘 Decompression Diving Procedures:
- Select the right equipment and conduct thorough pre-dive checks and drills
- Analyze and mitigate stress, follow decompression schedules, and execute safe gas switching
- Enhance team awareness and communication
- Practice SMB/lift bag deployment
🔘 Fundamental Techniques:
- Master proper trim, buoyancy, and finning techniques
- Learn emergency procedures for equipment failure, catastrophic gas loss, navigational errors…
🔘 Equipment & Gas Management:
- Understand cylinder labeling, nitrox analysis, and gas blending procedures
What’s In It For You?
✅ Independent Decompression Diving: Gain the ability to conduct decompression dives without direct supervision when conditions match your training.
✅ Pathway to Advanced Training: Qualify enroll in courses such as TDI Extended Range, TDI Advanced Wreck, and TDI Trimix.
The TDI e-Learning materials are accessible in multiple languages. At B&W Diving, we are pleased to provide in-person dive training in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese. Please note that comprehension of the training language is crucial for effective learning and maintaining safety throughout your course.
Training Daily Rate & Duration:
Our daily training rate for technical diving starts at 220€/per person for 2-3 students. A 30€/per day surcharge applies to one-on-one courses. However, we will make every effort to place you in an existing scheduled course to avoid this additional fee, unless a one-on-one session is specifically requested.
One-on-one training offers both advantages and considerations depending on your learning goals. For more details, feel free to contact us directly.
A minimum of 4 dives must be conducted, which can be done in 4 days; however, at our facility, certification is earned, not given, it is subjected to the instructor’s discretion based on your comfort level in the water. We will try our best to help you complete the course in the recommended time, but if extra training days are required, it will incur in extra fees.
What Is Included?
At B&W Diving, we are committed to transparent pricing with no hidden fees. Our daily training rates include:
- Land transport from the dive center to the dive site and return
- Dive Equipment: including mask, wetsuit, boots, fins, backplate/wing for Twin 12, backgas regulators, stage regulators, dive computer, cylinders, and weights
- Gases (Air, up to Nitrox 32%)
Please note, the following are not included in our daily training rates:
- E-Learning Materials
- Diver Registration Fee with training agency
- Certification Fee
- Oxygen Fills
- Helium-Based Gas Mixes: please note that due to worldwide helium shortages the price of helium may vary. If this is the case we will inform you prior to blending the gas
- Ferry Fees, if applicable
- Boat Trips
- Meals & Beverages
Prerequisites:
✔️ Minimum age 18
✔️ Minimum certification of SDI Advanced Adventure Diver, Advanced Diver, or equivalent
✔️ Proof of 25 logged open water dives
✔️ Medically Fit*
* Medically Fit - In Malta, all divers are required to complete a medical questionnaire. Contact us for more information at blackandwhitediving@gmail.com
Cancellation Policy:
We understand that unexpected changes can occur, but due to the logistical arrangements involved, the following cancellation fees apply:
- Cancellations made within 24 hours of the scheduled course will incur in a 100% cancellation fee.
- Cancellations made within 48 hours of the scheduled course will incur in a 50% cancellation fee.
If you need to cancel or reschedule, please inform us as early as possible so we can assist you accordingly and try to accommodate your request.
Join the TDI Decompression Procedures Diver course today and take a confident step beyond recreational diving limits.
