Technical Diving
By: Aquatech Divers Philippines,

Frenchman Daniel Burgaud is our experienced TDI/SDI Course Director here at Marco Vincent Dive Resort. Daniel quit his day job as a dental technician to become a fully pledged Technical Diving Instructor because he enjoyed it so much. TDI’s professionals are held to the highest standard to ensure quality training throughout the world.  This means that as a diver taking a TDI course, your instructor will have documented his experience and knowledge prior to achieving that rating.  As an instructor candidate taking a TDI course, your TDI instructor trainer will have gone through the paces to achieve the highest level of training that TDI offers. He is now based in the Philippines and married to Mabel, a lovely Filipina, who is also a Dive Instructor herself. In 1998, they built AquaTech-Divers, to help scuba divers become better Tech-Divers.

Who is Technical Diving International (TDI)? 

TDI is the largest technical certification agency in the world.  As one of the first agencies to provide training in mixed gas diving and rebreathers, TDI is seen as an innovator of new diving techniques and programs which previously were not available to the general public.  Training with TDI has provided divers with the opportunity to see such wrecks as the Andrea Doria, Luisitania and the Prince of Wales.  TDI divers have explored underwater caves in Spain, Australia and Mexico and assisted as support divers on world record freedives done in the Red Sea.

TDI is committed to offering the highest quality training supported by the latest materials with the most up to date information and techniques.  TDI’s materials are written by authors that acutely conduct the type of diving they are writing about.  Those same materials are update as technology and equipment change.

About Technical Diving:

Technical diving is where sport diving (open water certification, advanced scuba diver, and many other specialty course) ends. Technical diving starts at advanced nitrox. Nitrox is most divers first step into technical but it has also become very popular amongst sport divers.  Nitrox is a breathing gas with oxygen levels greater than 21 percent. Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures is the foundation of technical diving, all other following courses will build on the knowledge and skills learned during the two fundamental courses. Advanced Nitrox, Semi Closed Circuit Rebreather (SCR) and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) and Advanced Wreck does not make you go very deep since it stays within the sport diving limits (40m / 130 feet). However, TDI has course curriculums that take you as deep as 100 m / 330 feet!