IANTD Newb

[Jas_H32]

Hey,

I am currently a Padi rescue diver with two years regular diving experience. I am looking at getting a wing and twin set with the view to get myself booked onto a IANTD course or two to prep me for some very basic deco diving. My aim is to increase bottom time as i have started to get into wreck diving. I already have my Padi Nitrox spec.

Any suggestions on which courses are worth while as a good foundation?

Please treat me as a complete newb as that is what i am to non recreational diving.

[Richard Mason]

Hey,

I am currently a Padi rescue diver with two years regular diving experience. I am looking at getting a wing and twin set with the view to get myself booked onto a IANTD course or two to prep me for some very basic deco diving. My aim is to increase bottom time as i have started to get into wreck diving. I already have my Padi Nitrox spec.

Any suggestions on which courses are worth while as a good foundation?

Please treat me as a complete newb as that is what i am to non recreational diving.

If you don't do it for a living, it's all recreational.

I'm looking at the same thing at the moment - first thing is get a Deep Diver course done, either with IANTD, PADI, SSI etc; you need Deep, wanky as it is, of some description to do your Adv Nitrox, which you need before you do Technical Diver.

I've decided on IANTD because it sets me up to do short deco (up to 15 mins), before I move onto the TD, (which I may or may not do). I was looking at TDI but that requires you to do Adv Nitrox & Deco Procedures but then requires you to do Extended Range before you can use hot O2 mixes for accelerated deco, whereas IANTD qualifies for use of rich deco mixes straight away.

Also, being where I am, training opportunities are limited unless I get on the plane for an hour and do a lot of buggerising around in Melbourne, which is bloody huge and expensive to get around from airport to the dive sites, so it's cheaper for me to get started by collecting some more plastic from PADI/SSI to meet the Deep prerequisite.

Anyway, horses for courses, if you'll forgive the pun.

[alastairkennedy]

Which Adv Nitrox

I went down the IANTD route much for the same reasons as you, a little more bottom time; but added to this the trimix option (still 'recreational'). I beleive the TDI option to be very similar; I personally didn't go for the GUE route because of time before a holiday (needed fundamentals first..... but I think I will come back to this at some point).

Nearly everyone will say pick the instructor, and the same 3-4 get recomended on here (depending where you are).

I got more from this course than any other, you definatly hit a learing curve.

[Jas_H32]

Which Adv Nitrox

I went down the IANTD route much for the same reasons as you, a little more bottom time; but added to this the trimix option (still 'recreational'). I beleive the TDI option to be very similar; I personally didn't go for the GUE route because of time before a holiday (needed fundamentals first..... but I think I will come back to this at some point).

Nearly everyone will say pick the instructor, and the same 3-4 get recomended on here (depending where you are).

I got more from this course than any other, you definatly hit a learing curve.

Which instructor would you recommend? I was looking at possibly doing it at NDAC but anywhere in the uk would be managable.

[Jas_H32]

would that suffice for the Deep spec as it says the requirements prior to the course are basic nitrox?

[SeaStar]

If you are thinking wrecks and NDAC is local, then speak to Mark Powell although Mark teaches TDI. If you want to do IANTD then Jack Ingle or Howard Payne. Their are also several others who are just as good.

The best thing is to ring them and talk to them about the type of diving you are doing, and you want to do in the future, then pick the one that you think you can work best with.

[John63]

Most of the tech agencies have intro to deco / deco procedures / advanced deco courses (or a variation thereof) so rather than picking just IANTD, pick the instructor and go with his/her course recommendations.


Contact the instructor(s) that you are considering, based upon reccomendations, locations, etc. Chat to them and see which you feel most confortable with.

You'll get lots of instuctor recommendations from YD

John

PS nothing wrong with IANTD I have done a couple of course with them

[alastairkennedy]

I only know DLL in Leeds and would be happy to recomend them (friendly bunch). They will likley run the course in Stoney and NDAC.

Other than that, having listned to Mark Powel yesterday, he seams like the sort of person you could get on with, but would still push you (but it would be TDI). I don't know any of the others mentions in Adv Nitrox threads, so cant really recomend.... sorry.

I know DLL (and presumably others) offer the course in Malta / Dahab, if you fancy something different (warmer).

[teutho]

I basically asked the same question a few weeks ago have a look at my old thread, looks like some of the questions you're asking were answered in my thread

Getting started in tech diving

Anyway hope this helps

Chris

[HP]

Hi Mate

The introductory tech diving with deco course from IANTD is the ART Triox & Deco Prodedures programme. I teach that, it's a four day course, and will give you a very solid entry and grounding to start technical diving. It qualifies you to use Helium and Nitrox based back gasses in the 0-48m range plus a single deco bottle using any Nitrox mix for a limited amount of accelerated deco

Some people prefer, and invariably benefit from, a day or two before hand just setting up new equipment, learning a few of the absolute basics and just getting comfortable in the water with their new twinset rig. This enables them to iron out any bugs before the course and to safely do a few dives just to familiarise themselves with what may be, for some people, completely new equipment.

Feel free to PM if you want further details - happy to help