Credentials...

Steve Lewis joined Technical Diving International (TDI) as an instructor-trainer very soon after its formation in the mid-1990s. It has since grown to become the largest and best-known technical diver certification agency in the world.

Steve has remained an active technical diver, instructor-trainer and author promoting safe diving practices and continuing diver education programs in North America, Europe and Asia since that time.

His credits include serving on the Training Advisory Panel for TDI, SDI, ERDI, working as managing editor for Diving Adventure Magazine, contributing editor for Underwater Journal, and he contributes regular articles and essays to several onLine publications.

He has also authored and co-authored several diving textbooks including the best-selling Six Skills and Other Discussions and is currently working on a series of diving handbooks.

Steve is also a training, and product consultant for a major rebreather manufacturer, and a leading open-circuit dive equipment company.


 

What exactly is techdiverTraining


Let’s start with a definition of Technical Diving.


Sometime back in the dawn of time – around the early 1990s – the term surfaced in the middle of a huge boil of exhalation bubbles either just off the coast of Key West or at a cave entrance someplace in North-Central Florida. The folks who first coined the term technical diving deserve a quiet thank you. Unfortunately their definition of exactly what was covered by the term seems to have gotten lost, and today there are as many definitions of the term Technical Diving as there are tech diving enthusiasts.


Some define technical diving by the gases used, depth attained, environmental conditions, equipment deployed, complexity of the dive plan, the way limits are set and followed, and the list goes on and on. For our purposes, let’s keep the whole thing as simple as possible.


How about a very straight-forward equation: Technical Diving = More Time in the Water.


doppler diving a Pelagian DCCCRAnd here, we go about delivering that "end product" to our customers... it really doesn't matter about the hows and whys right now, because that stuff is simply too involved to try to explain in a few lines on a website.

When someone signs up for a class to become a technical diver, or to build on their current tech-diver status, it may require extra bottles containing exotic gas mixes, a completely different life-support system to OC scuba, other specialized gear, a different mind-set and a ton of other little details, but in the final analysis, it's all about maximizing our time underwater.

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