Ocean Adventures is proud to teach the philosophy of DIR (Doing it Right) diving in many of its recreational and technical courses. All DIR courses build upon each other in a bottom up style; meaning the higher level classes simply build upon skills learned at the lower levels. DIR emphasizes balance, buoyancy, trim and team awareness and is appropriate for the recreational diver who wants to improve dinging skills and become a better teammate or for the aspiring tech diver who wants to eventually exceed the recreational limits.

General DIR Overview: DIR is a holistic philosophy of diving that focuses in three areas; equipment, education and experience. Only when these things are in balance can the objectives of the dive be met and can the entire team experience the most important thing in diving: FUN. Equipment should be appropriate for the dive, simple, streamlined, and unified throughout the team. The level of education for the team should be appropriate for the dive (i.e. Advanced Open water to make an 80’ dive). There are no “trust me” dives. The experience level of the team should also be adequate for the dive, meaning no one pushes their limits. When practiced properly this team oriented style of diving ensures that everyone, no matter their certification level, can actively participate and have fun on every dive.

Now that you are already open water certified and your looking for little more adventure, technical diving may be just the thing for you.

Question: What is technical diving?
Answer; All non commercial diving is categorized as recreational and within recreational diving there is sport and technical.  Sport diving includes your open water certification, advanced scuba diver, and many other specialty course.  Technical diving picks up where sport diving ends generally at nitrox (a breathing gas with oxygen levels greater than 21 percent). 

Question: What is my first step into technical diving?
Answer; Nitrox is most divers first step into technical but it has also become very popular amongst sport divers so TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures would be a great start.  Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures for the foundation of technical diving all other course will build on the knowledge and skills learned during these courses. 

Question: Do I have to go deep for technical diving?
Answer; No. Although technical diving is commonly thought of as deep, there are a lot of courses that stay within the sport diving limits (40 m / 130 feet) such as Advanced Nitrox, Semi Closed Circuit Rebreather (SCR) and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) and Advanced Wreck to name a few.

Question: Will technical diving allow me to go deeper?
Answer; yes.  TDI has course curriculums that take you as deep as 100 m / 330 feet and do so in a manner that each course builds on the last and each course takes you a little deeper.  By receiving training in this manner not only are your skills and knowledge increasing but so is your comfort level.

Ready to start your Technical Diving Adventures? Find out more about the Introduction to DIR Specialty

For more information about our Technical Diver Training please call Ocean Adventures at 310-578-9391.  Our instructors will be happy to clarify any queries you have. Thank you for choosing Ocean Adventures! For Advanced Technical TDI Diver Training e-mail Andy Huber at achuber65@gmail.com or call him at 310-2610040.