The NAUI Introduction to Technical Diving course prepares the Advanced/EANx diver to the rigors and discipline of technical training.  It focuses on key areas which will greatly benefit the student in all his recreational dives and instills the skills foundation for further technical diver education:

• Buoyancy and trim
• Non-silting propulsion
• Air sharing procedures
• Valve drills
• Proper ascents and SMB deployment
• Decompression theory
• Equipment configuration

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Want to extend your bottom time, lessen your surface interval, and maximize every dive? Become an Enriched Air Nitrox diver!

You will learn how to choose the proper blend of Nitrox for your dive profile, determine maximum depth limits for your Nitrox mixture, analyze your breathing mixture, and plan and safely execute each dive. Your instructor will teach you about the physiology of oxygen and nitrogen; advantages, disadvantages, and risks of nitrox; oxygen toxicity; hazards and precautions of handling oxygen; the concept of Equivalent Air Depth; use of EANx with standard Air Dive Tables; common gas mixing procedures; and more.

This is the jump-off point for higher level technical courses such as wreck and cave diving.  Seek a new dimension in your diving, enroll in a NAUITec course, write to: raymond@dyv.us.