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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
- 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.
- if any medical condition exists,
students must have a doctor's signoff prior to the start of any water
work.
- 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.
- 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.
- the instructor may request additional
information from the student which may include a complete diving resume.
- the student must be physically fit,
mentally stable and clearly focused.
- must hold DAN Master level insurance
or equivalent.
- smoking is not permitted during
training activities.
- 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.
- birth control pills and Scopace are accepted.
AVAILABLE UTD COURSES:
UTD CAVE DIVER
Purpose:
The
UTD Cave Diver is a combination of Cave 1 and Cave 2. This class can be
taken as a complete Cave Diver class, or can be split up into Cave 1
and Cave 2, at the end of which the student is certified as a Cave
Diver.
The course is
designed to educate and refine skills within the cave environment to
protect the cave. This is achieved through an intense diver education
program that acquaints individuals with an understanding of established
cave conservation procedures and an appreciation for the subtle dangers
often associated with this overhead diving.
This course
covers advanced principles of cave diving, continuing with the skills
and knowledge required to penetrate and navigate the underwater cave
environment. Training includes an emphasis on awareness, cave dive
planning, cave environments, stress management, navigation, T’s, Jumps,
Gaps, conservation, standard procedures, emergency procedures,
techniques, problem solving, and the hazards of cave diving.
Upon completion of Cave Diver parts 1 and 2, divers will be considered
to be a fully qualified Cave Divers, their certification will no longer
expire (if they did Cave 1 prior), and they will be able to safely
penetrate and navigate the cave, not only following and exploring the
mainline but many of the side passageways and tunnels that make up this
underwater labyrinth, while using no more than 1/3rd of their gas for
penetration. UTD does not assume that cave training is for everyone. In
fact, only very capable divers, who are quite comfortable in the water,
should consider this form of diving.
Note: The entire Cave Diver training curriculum (parts 1 and 2) can be
combined into a single 5/6 day program.
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
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PRICE PER PERSON* (USD)
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CAVE DIVER
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5
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1,500 |
| OVERHEAD PROTOCOLS (OHP) |
3
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900
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| INTEGRATED OHP AND CAVE 1 |
5
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1,500
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| ESSENTIALS OF OVERHEAD |
3
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900
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CAVE GOLD (STAGE)
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3
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900 |
CAVE SCOOTER
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5
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1,500 |
ADVANCED SIDEMOUNT CAVE
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5
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1,500 |
INTEGRATED SCOOTER AND STAGE
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7
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2,100
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CHECK OUT THE UTD TEAM BUILDER PROGRAM - 15% DISCOUNT FOR TEAMS OF 3
We
accept
PLEASE READ OUR
RESERVATIONS POLICIES
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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