Technical Full Cave

The Technical Cave Course is the highest overhead environment rating offered by IANTD. This course is for the serious adventure wanting to explore further into the overhead environment, make jumps off of main lines to adjoining passages. During the cave course your IANTD Instructor will teach you the proper techniques for diving in a cave environment while maintaining a constant guideline. In addition to Full Cave diving skills this course includes all the skills in the TDI Extended Range course as well as the IANTD Technical Nitrox course. Maximum depth is 170' and uses of multiple stage bottles is required. Your IANTD Cave Instructor will cover topics and skills such as:

  • Equipment configuration and preparation
  • Body posture and trim
  • Propulsion techniques
  • Cave conservation
  • Proper guideline procedures/Traverses/Circuits and multiple jumps
  • Lost line drills
  • Buddy emergency procedures
  • S drills
  • Hand and light signals
  • Cave decompression Procedure
  • Multiple stage bottles
  • All Technical diver skills and procedures

The TDI/IANTD Cavern and Cave manual, NSS Cave diving manual and the Technical Diving Encyclopedia will outline the procedures for conducting cave dives and a great addition to your diving library. DAN Master insurance or equivalent required.

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