TIRED OF MEDIOCRE TRAINING STANDARDS AND WANT TO HAVE FUN WITH LIKE-MINDED DIVERS?

WE WANT TO SATISFY YOUR ABOVE NEEDS

AND ENABLE YOU TO ENJOY TOP-QUALITY TRAINING,

PROVIDING YOU WITH THE SKILLS YOU ASPIRE TO

.... WHILE HAVING FUN!

The underwater cave systems of the Riviera Maya offer some of the most beautiful yet challenging diving you will ever experience.
If you are interested in cave training we provide instruction from Essentials of Overhead/Tech through Overhead Protocols and Cave Diver, to Cave Gold (Stage), Cave Scooter, Advanced Sidemount Cave (any training completion cards issued will be from the UTD-Unified Team Diving training agency). We also train to Full Cave for the NSS-CDS (National Speleological Society - Cave Diving Section).

GENERAL PREREQUISITES FOR ALL UTD COURSES

1. students must have completed, printed and submitted to headquarters the online application located on the UTD website, including student registration/dive history, medical information, liability release forms.
2. if any medical condition exists, students must have a doctor's signoff prior to the start of any water work.
3. students must have completed the appropriate online classroom course, completed the examination prior to attending the first day of class and, after review with the instructor, receive a 100% understanding of the examination.
4. students must print and bring the registration and other forms as well as the certificate of completion of the online classroom course to the first day of class. These forms will be reviewed and signed by the studnent before the start of class.
5. the instructor may request additional information from the student which may include a complete diving resume.
6. the student must be physically fit, mentally stable and clearly focused.
7. must hold DAN Master level insurance or equivalent.
8. smoking is not permitted during training activities.
9. must obtain an authorization for the use of prescription drugs by a physician and must have such authorization approved by a UTD representative prior to the onset of diver training.
   
10. birth control pills and Scopace are accepted.

AVAILABLE UTD COURSES:

UTD CAVE DIVER

Purpose:

Prerequisites:

1. Must meet UTD general course prerequisites.

2. Must be a minimum age of 18 years of age.

3. Must have taken UTD Overhead Protocols.

4. Must have enriched air training or higher.

5. Must have a minimum of 75 dives beyond open water qualification.

6. Must be able to swim a distance of at least 60'/18m on a breath hold.

7. Must be able to swim at least 300 yards/275 meters in less than 12 minutes without stopping.

8. DAN insurance membership or equivalent.

Duration:

The UTD Cave Diver course is normally conducted over a 5-day period, and cumulatively involves a minimum of 40 hours of instruction (lecture and in-water) designed to instill divers with an appreciation for the dangers, challenges and beauty of the cave environment. Special emphasis here will be placed on the demands of advanced navigation techniques (including traverses and circuits).

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UTD OVERHEAD PROTOCOLS (OHP)

Purpose:

The UTD Overhead Protocols course is a mandatory prerequisite to UTD's Wreck 1 and Cave 1 classes, and acts as Part 1 of any overhead environment course. As there are so many skills and techniques common to both wreck and cave diving, the overhead protocols class presents the students with the foundational skills that are necessary to be a safe, thinking diver in any overhead environment.

This 3-day class takes place in a no overhead environment (open or confined water, but not pool), generally at depths of 30'/10m or less, and introduces the students to line-laying, line retrieval, no-vizibility line following, touch contact communications and skills, critical skills while no-viz line following, lost line, lost buddy and lost light. Once these skills are learned, the class introduces a series of simulated failures while on the line: OOA situation, valve failures, etc. These are tested to a Level 2 (similar to that of Tech 2 skills) but complicated by the necessity of staying on the line and simulating the need to navigate back to open water.

Completion of this class qualifies a diver to move on to UTD Wreck 1 or UTD Cave 1, each of which is another 3-day class that takes place in the actual overhead environment. If a student wishes to complete Wreck 1 and Cave 1, he/she will not need to repeat the overhead protocols class, eliminating the repetition of the line skills. Both Wreck 1 and Cave 1 contain a complete review of line procedures in case there is a time gap between the Overhead Protocols class and Wreck 1 or Cave 1.

Overhead protocols can be combined with Wreck 1 or Cave 1 into a single 5-day class.

Prerequisites:

1. Must meet UTD general course prerequisites.

2. Must be a minimum age of 18 years of age.

3. Must have a minimum of 75 dives beyond open water qualification.

4. UTD Rescue and Emergency procedures or equivalent.

5. Must be able to swim a distance of at least 60'/18m on a breath hold.

6. Must be able to swim at least 300 yards/275 meters in less than 12 minutes without stopping.

7. DAN insurance membership or equivalent.

Duration:

3 days, involving a minimum of 24 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom review, in-water work and debriefing.

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UTD ESSENTIALS OF OVERHEAD 

Purpose:

The Essentials of Overhead diving course is designed to cultivate the fundamental techniques required by all sound technical and wreck/cave diving practice. It functions as an entry point for all previously certified divers and it is the prerequisite for other UTD technical classes. Essentials of Overhead acts as a bridge between conventional training and UTD's more demanding technical curriculum.

Prerequisites:

1. Must meet UTD general course prerequisites.

2. Must be a minimum age of 18 years of age.

3. Must have taken UTD Rec 2 (Nitrox), or equivalent.

4. Must have a minimum of 50 dives beyond open water qualification, 25 of which should be non-training dives.

5. Must be able to swim a distance of at least 50'/15m on a breath hold or demonstrate an air share swim where the OOA diver swims at least 50'/15m to the donating diver.

6. Must be able to swim at least 300 yards/275 meters in less than 14 minutes without stopping or swim at least 600 yards/550 meters in 18 minutes with a mask and fins.

7. All participants must tow a diver in full equipment, in the environment they will be diving in, for 10 minutes.

8. All participants must demonstrate the rescue of a diver simulating O₂ toxicity.

Duration:

3 days, involving a minimum of 24 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom review, in-water work and debriefing.

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UTD COURSE	DURATION (min. days)	PRICE PER PERSON* (USD)
CAVE DIVER	5	1,500
OVERHEAD PROTOCOLS (OHP)	3	900
INTEGRATED OHP AND CAVE 1	5	1,500
ESSENTIALS OF OVERHEAD	3	900
CAVE GOLD (STAGE)	3	900
CAVE SCOOTER	5	1,500
ADVANCED SIDEMOUNT CAVE	5	1,500
INTEGRATED SCOOTER AND STAGE	7	2,100

 

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 ABOVE COURSE PRICES INCLUDE:

1. UTD instructor training fee.

2. Tank rentals, v-weights and EAN 32 fills.

3. 11% Mexican sales tax (IVA).

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