Technical Diving Courses

Technical Diving Courses & Cave Diving Courses Overview

Dan’s has been involved with Technical Diving  since 1986 when we helped introduce Dive Rite to the Canadian dive market selling advanced gear and learning about higher level diving.   Technical Diving Courses were inconceivable in those days, with only cave diving training being available from a small group of Florida cave divers. Usher in the early 1990’s when technical diving finally broke into the market, and when we became the first Canadian certified Nitrox divers and one of the first Nitrox blending and training facilities through IANTD and then TDI.

Since 1996 our technical diving course graduates have graced the water with more finesse, ability and experience than the vast majority of Technical Divers worldwide regardless of agency or instructor.

Our Divers are the most well rounded Divers you’ll find above and below the water, possessing higher skill and abilities, a great sense of team diving values, pride, compassion and a willingness to help mentor newer divers.

Dive Smarter

DDS is here to provide our students with the Highest level of quality, safety and excellence in technical dive training, equipment, education, and service.

Our courses are the highest quality technical classes taught to the highest technical diving course standards, offering some of the most challenging and rewarding technical diving educational courses available.

Who We Are

We are a team of active Technical Diving Explorers.  We’ve put more time in underwater than anyone else and we’ve taken the best training from a range of different agencies and instructors over the decades to be able to better provide you with the best diving education possible.

We offer Gas Blending courses, Shipwreck External Survey, Wreck Penetration, Trimix & Advanced Trimix Courses, Cavern, Cave Diving courses, Technical DPV  training, CCR Rebreather and PSCR Rebreather Diving Courses, Intro to Tech, Decompression Procedures, Advanced Nitrox, Helitrox, Technical or Advanced Shipwreck Penetration, Technical Sidemount Diving, Explorer Training, Expedition Diving and much more.

Our Technical Diving Courses embrace 3 main areas:

1. Diving with a standardized, simplistic DIR/Hogarthian/NTEC  equipment configuration (clean, simple, streamlined) and embracing the most current equipment and philosophies in technical diving.
2. Gaining a Solid Foundation of Practical and Academic Knowledge started in your Basic Nitrox Course and through a series of academic lessons build on that foundation with each lesson.
3. Building on Rudimentary skills while introducing and mastering mandatory skill sets introduced through dry-land drills, confined water training and open water training in a positive, constructive manner, where students can review video footage of the dives with their instructor.

Additional Information:

Who in the world these days gives anything for free?  We do, because we are confident that there is no one out there that can teach you better, mentor you into a stronger diver, make you more comfortable or offer you the best training progression to fit your needs checking off all of the boxes and leaving no gaps in your training needs and goals.

If you’re interested in our technical diving programs, we can share a wealth of information about our courses, outlines, structure and skills to give you the insight and the best way to get you the right information to complete the right training path.

Complete Flexibility in Scheduling & Location

We offer set dates for courses, but with enough notice we can also offer private or custom formatted courses for you or your group regardless of your location.  We can come to you if you’re too far away.

We’ve taught all over the globe offering our brand of technical diving training to people from all over Canada, most US States, Germany, Italy, Curacao, Cayman, Australia, and many more places.

Wherever You Want Us to Be, We Can Be.

We are Not Just in Niagara, as a matter of fact, over 35% of our Classes are taught within the GTA and Surrounding Areas.

If you don’t see what you’re looking for, contact us for more info, we are the best choice you’ll find with the most competitive rates for high end technical diving.

There is no one in Canada with more experience and ability to teach you an entire range of life changing technical courses.

We offer Progressive Technical Diving Courses through TDI (one of the original Technical Diving agencies), NAUI Tec (the most respected training agency in diving and the first “Doing it Right” Tech diving agency) and IDREO (A New International Exploration and Research Organization offering some cutting edge explorer programs and Rebreather courses).  Training from other tech agencies are also available upon request.

Read on below about the dozens of technical diving courses we offer and have a look at just what makes us different afterwards too, check out the above drop down screen or short cut your search by clicking here.

Dive Course Calendar

Looking for recreational courses?

Not quite ready to explore a cave or technical diving but want to improve your recreational diving? Dan’s offers AWARD Winning recreational PADI Scuba Diving courses with a difference! Whether you’re just starting your dive adventure or wanting to continue to build on your skills, we can help. Check out our renowned Recreational Scuba Courses.