TDI Intro to Tech, one to one
€899
3 sessions · Mindestens drei Freiwassertauchgänge, innerhalb der Nullzeit.
Theory, equipment check and at least three open-water dives.
DiveWithSteini · Herrenberg
TDI Intro to Tech
This course introduces you to technical configurations and procedures. The focus is on stable fundamentals within no-decompression limits.
- €899
- Theory and equipment check
- At least three open-water dives
- Buoyancy, trim, gas planning and team procedures
Price
What it costs
Technical rental equipment beyond the standard set is stated before you commit.
TDI Intro to Tech
What the course looks like
TDI filmed this course. It shows what the exercises actually look like: neutrally buoyant, horizontal, everything done deliberately. That is the level we work towards — and the reason the course takes the time it takes.
The film comes from the training agency. It only loads once you allow external media.
First, where you stand
Before the course we dive together and look at buoyancy, trim, ascents and how you handle your current equipment. Only then do we decide which configuration will be used in the course.
Four things we work on
All of it is practised neutrally buoyant and horizontal. Not as a party trick, but because it is the condition for everything else: if you cannot hold your position, you cannot solve a task without silting out the site.
Buoyancy and trim
The foundation. You refine it in every session until it stops looking like an exercise and starts being how you dive. Without precise buoyancy there is no technical diving — that is not an opinion, it is the reason this course is built the way it is.
Propulsion techniques
Up to six different kicks, each for a particular situation: frog kick, modified frog kick, back kick and others. Afterwards you move deliberately instead of somehow.
Safety drills
Controlled ascents, donating gas to your buddy, valve drills on a twinset, deploying a buoy. Practised until they still work when things get uncomfortable. That is the point of the drill.
Diving as a team
What affects your buddy affects you. We do not dive next to each other, we dive with each other — agreed beforehand, attentive underway, debriefed together.
A different configuration
During the course you dive a twinset with a long hose and a second regulator on a necklace, and you learn why a wing is the buoyancy device rather than a jacket with more volume. All of it built so that something is allowed to fail. What you own, rent or simply try out first is agreed beforehand — and what the rental costs is fixed before you commit.
The course will demand something of you. It is still diving, but it feels different: every action has a reason, every decision is made in advance. Most people notice here for the first time how much fine work sits in the fundamentals they thought they had long since mastered.
Course scope
The course stays within no-decompression limits and does not replace decompression training. Special rental equipment is agreed in advance and itemised separately if it is not included in the quotation.
Check your route into technical diving
Send me your certification, number of dives, typical waters and a short description of your current equipment.
TDI Intro to Tech
Trim is not an end in itself
Flat in the water, hands free, fins off the bottom: good trim protects the site, saves gas and keeps your head free for the actual dive. In this course you work on it until it stops being a skill and starts being how you dive.