Technical Diving Courses The DDS Difference

Technical Diving Courses The DDS Difference

Technical Diving The DDS Difference…..Cave Diving Courses, Technical Diving Instruction and Rebreather Explorer Courses.  Tech Diving at it’s Best….Let Dan’s be your guideline to diving excellence and perfection.

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Matt’s approach to cavern, cave and technical diving instruction is rooted in safety, reliable and streamlined equipment choices, problem solving and situational awareness

There are many choices in the technical diving courses market place. We want to be your first and only choice in technical diving courses and equipment.

We offer programs that are taught to higher standards from more experienced instructors who are willing to travel anywhere you are located to learn how to dive the best way possible.

If you want a technical diving course that is a cut above the rest, we’ll go that extra mile to make you the best diver you can be.

We helped introduce technical diving to the Canadian diving market in 1986 when we partnered with Dive Rite. We were among the first divers certified in the safe use of Nitrox around 1992 and started offering  technical diving courses in 1995, rebreather training in 1997.

In 2000 we began offering the most progressive technical diving educational courses after being introduced to a better style of diving.  We began to embrace and teach our recreational and technical courses with a more streamlined equipment configuration and a team diving approach inspired by what is now known as the “Hogarthian”, “NTEC” or “DIR” philosophy.  We simply call this team diving methodology a more progressive style of diving.

Not long after this, we began our path down the expedition diving trail participating in exploration projects that have been featured on television, in newspapers, radio and dive magazines exploring shipwrecks and caves.

By 2007 we had begun offering cold water wreck sidemount training and became one of the first facilities to start offering recreational and technical diving classes in a progressive Sidemount  configuration.

NAUI Intro to Tech Students Air Share

Throughout the 90’s and early 2000’s we had had a love/hate relationship with rebreathers and after many people suffered tragic ends, we were on the fence until we came across a rebreather concept so simple, yet familiar, we had to start diving it to see for ourselves. After a number of CCR Dives we brought in this progressive rebreather configuration to be paired with double tanks of any size, dual-isolation manifold and long hose/short hose/spg configuration laid out the same way as someone would wear a doubles kit but with no bubbles in CCR or fewer bubbles in PSCR rebreather configurations and of course a breathing loop with bail out valve configuration.  We offer Rebreather Training  on the White Arrow Explorer CCR, PSCR Expedition model and any similarly laid out rebreather from the other manufacturers.

By teaching diving the right way we have given our technical diving course graduates more academic and in-water awareness, more team and goal oriented dive opportunities, structure, uniformity, a more streamlined gear configuration and the ability to conduct dives in a safer fashion in comparison to the
vast majority of tech divers certified in the market.Diving the Bell Island Mine with Explorer and Rebreather Instructor Matt Mandziuk

Our dedication to our students’ development, our passion for underwater exploration, and our personal diving experience and disciplines set us ahead of the pack as the clear cut leader in technical diving education as we continue to lead the way in technical diving education.

Group and Private Instruction for all levels of Technical Diving Courses are available. If you can’t come to us, we’ll even come to you, whether you’re in another province or another country. We have gear, we will travel. Courses can be done on weekends or over a block of consecutive days.

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With proper gear and training, technical diving extends your bottom time so you can truly enjoy our local wrecks. Shawn, Grace and Jeff tech pictured here post-dive of the Forest City.
With proper gear and training, technical diving extends your bottom time so you can truly enjoy our local wrecks. Shawn, Grace and Jeff pictured here after an early Spring dive on the wreck of the Forest city as they prepped for an upcoming season of tech dives

If you’re interested in any of our technical diving programs a FREE CD is available offering a wealth of information about our courses and how we can help improve your diving to get you the most enjoyment, current information, complete and concise outline of what to expect when taking one of our amazing technical diving courses. Contact us for details and Technical Diving Course info.

Take a look in our BLOG section to see learn more about what we do, where we’ve been and how we teach or read testimonials from some of our students.

We also have a number of great videos and photos in the Photos & Videos sections. Take a look to see our students and our divers in action!