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  1. 15-05-09 11:03 PM #1
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    TDI, IANTD or DSAT

    After 20 odd years of diving, I'm getting a bit fed up with 9 min bottom times at 40m where all the interesting stuff lives hereabouts so I'm thinking some deco training won't go amiss.

    I've got a dive on in a couple of weeks which will go 39m, I've been diving with twins on & off for a while now and intend to run it as a deco dive using DCIEM tables, on this ere wreck:




    I'm looking at doing an Advanced Nitrox & Deco procedures course - if I do this on the mainland, I have the choice of IANTD or TDI; TDI is cheaper and IANTD requires that you do their Deep Course too, whereas TDI accepts logged experience of 10 dives past 30m, which I have in spades.

    Courses on the mainland will involve travel by air, which means I'll have to hire tanks etc over there, otherwise, I could take the ferry to Melbourne & drive but this is 4 times the cost of flying. There will also be at least 1 weeks accomodation to pay for too.

    The other possibility is to wait until my LDS gets set up to teach the PADI DSAT course which will cost twice as much but has the advantages of nil travel and I stay at home. The DSAT Tech course also includes Extended Range, I believe.

    Anyone got any thoughts on the relative merits/demerits of the actual courses, because these will be the deciding factor in the end for me. Or is it a case of the instructor being more important than the course?
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  2. 15-05-09 11:09 PM #2
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    Pick your instructor, someone who you get along with and who will teach you appropriately.

    (For example, I quite like the 'shut up and get on with it attitude' but it really pisses some people off, they prefer the caring touch. Personally I don't care if he's nice or not, as long as he teaches me not to kill myself).

    I would phone up the people who will be doing the training, speak to the actual trainer and go through it all soup to nuts, why you are doing it, what you will learn, how you will learn. Also find out what he is hot on, what he will fail you on and what he expects you to know before you go.
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  3. 15-05-09 11:59 PM #3
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    Quite Agree at this stage of training pick a good instructor with a good reputation and is good at what he / she does, thats far more important than which training agecy you go with.

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    i also agree i picked the instructor not the agency

    just so happened my good friend was an I.a.n.t.d instructor and can honestly say

    had one of the best courses ive ever done


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    again instructor, i've done both the tdi an/dp course and the dsat tec/deep because i wanted to train with the instructor. Both courses are subtly different and both good if deliver well.
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    i did TDI adv/nitrox and deco with dave carson at dive 24-7 tenerife would strongly recomend him ..hes on yd too.
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    It's all about the instructor. I'd pick one with plenty of technical diving experience, which certainly wasn't the case with some of the DSAT instructors over here when they first started.

    The DSAT course material will be better, but I don't think that's really important.

    Who are you thinking of doing it with on the mainland?

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  8. 16-05-09 12:50 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonP View Post
    It's all about the instructor. I'd pick one with plenty of technical diving experience, which certainly wasn't the case with some of the DSAT instructors over here when they first started.

    The DSAT course material will be better, but I don't think that's really important.

    Who are you thinking of doing it with on the mainland?

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    I'm thinking Scuba Doctor, mainly because they are closest to Tassie, so just a drive from Hobart to Devonport, catch the Spirit, then a drive from Port Melbourne to Rye and also because the conditions for training there will be closer to what I dive in over on this side of Bass Strait, unlike Sydney, Brisbane or Perth, where it's much much warmer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Mason View Post
    ....the conditions for training there will be closer to what I dive in over on this side of Bass Strait, unlike Sydney, Brisbane or Perth, where it's much much warmer.

    Come to Perth, temperature in the Swan in winter is equal with your summer and the viz is way worse than down your way!

    I'd agree with the others, pick the instructor rather than the agency.
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  10. 16-05-09 04:42 PM #10
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    Not done any of the deco course but one gem I've got from these boards is to "choose an instructor who does the diving that you want to do" if they don't then I'd be worried

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