Now that you are open water certified and you are looking for little more adventure, technical diving may be just the thing for you.

Crest offers the TDI Nitrox Diver, TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver and TDI Decompression Procedures courses all year round.

Question: What is technical diving?
Answer: All non commercial diving is categorized as recreational and within recreational diving there is sport and technical. Sport diving includes your open water certification, advanced scuba diver, and many other specialty courses. Technical diving picks up where sport diving ends generally at nitrox (a breathing gas with oxygen levels greater than 21 percent).

Question: What is my first step into technical diving?
Answer: Nitrox is most divers first step into technical but it has also become very popular amongst sport divers so TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures would be a great start. Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures for the foundation of technical diving all other courses will build on the knowledge and skills learned during these courses.

Question: Do I have to go deep for technical diving?
Answer: No. Although technical diving is commonly thought of as deep, there are a lot of courses that stay within the sport diving limits (40 m/130 feet) such as Advanced Nitrox, Semi Closed Circuit Rebreather (SCR) and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) and Advanced Wreck to name a few.

Question: Will technical diving allow me to go deeper?
Answer: Yes. TDI has course curriculums that take you as deep as 100 m/330 feet and do so in a manner that each course builds on the last and each course takes you a little deeper. By receiving training in this manner not only are your skills and knowledge increasing but so is your comfort level.

Contact Crest now and let us know your scuba diving education requirements during your next visit to Cyprus.