As the scuba diving popularity grow, Tech Diving getting more and more attention by these years TDI, GUE, RAID, SSI and IANTD’s promotion photos and videos online. Tech Diving starts to seduce divers to explore the deeper, and unknown underwater area. Dark Tide started from 2016, basing on experience teaching IANTD Tech Diving programs, we sense the divers eager and passion to getting into this.
However, Dark Tide didn’t have lots of schedule for tech diving courses, instead, we spend lots of time to teach the basic Essentials Diver Course. For most of customers coming for Tech Diving education, we ask them to start from Essentials Diver Course to form the solid fundamental of personal diving skills and mind set, then move on the IANTD Tek Lite programs such as Advanced Nitrox & Advanced Recreational Trimix(ART) Diver program. Both these course are decompression diving and over 40m limit, ART can even go to 51m now. After these course, you can finally into IANTD Technical Normoxic Trimix Diver Course that help you to go deeper.
Lots of customers are not really happy for our request to get Essentials Certification before entering Tek Lite to go over 40m limit. Please understand that Tech Diving is different from Recreational Diving in the high requirement of personal diving skills, dive plan and team work, and low tolerance of any problems that happen during the dive. No matter in the depth that over 40m, in the overhead environment like the wreck or the cave, all the small problems will cumulate then turn into an unsolved panic that cause the accident.
So we just ask those who don’t want to spend time and money on Essentials Certification, or think they are ready for tech diving to prove us with one dive. Most of customers didn’t prove to me. Only one student willing to follow my rule, and he impressed me with his perfect buoyancy control and skills in the dive. In these 10 years of teaching, I met lots of students, they are smart, and quite experienced. But in the course, they tried to walk the short cut to just meet the minimum requirement in gears, deco plan, and skills. They really don’t know what they lose is the chance to improve yourself, and the safety of your dive buddies. T○ them, tech diving is nothing but a tool to show up.
你需要有完美的中性浮力才不會錯過你的減壓停留！
You need to have perfect buoyancy control not to miss your deco stop!
你需要有正確裝備構造及技巧，才能與你的潛伴共生呼吸穿過狹小的船艙、洞穴！
You need to have correct gear configuration and skills to share gas with your buddy passing through narrow hatch or cave channel.
你需要有正確的知識及判斷，才能與潛伴討論出一個幾近完備的潛水計劃！
You need to have correct knowledge and judgement to prepare an almost-perfect dive plan with your buddies!
你需要有熟練的技巧應付水中的所有變化及意外發生！
You need to familiar all the skills you are taught to handle underwater environment change and all the gear failures that could happen in water.
You won’t think that you are able to climb Mount Himalayas just after you on top of a 300 meter high hill, so do the Tech Diving. Dark Tide is helping you to discover the Explorer in you, and willing to make your every steps firm and worthy toward the dark side! Of course, this take time, solid training and the most important of all is that you devoted yourself into this. Dark Tide will be here service every diver willing to take firm steps like us!!
最後，針對不了解IANTD及暗潮的潛友，我們再次強調：我們不是〝缺乏彈性〞，我們是〝堅守原則〞。
Phil老师说的太好了