Advanced Wreck

The TDI Advanced Wreck Diver Course is the next step for any diver that has successfully completed the SDI Wreck Diver Course. During this course, your TDI Instructor will teach you the proper techniques for locating and planning an advanced penetration dive. The advanced wreck course is commonly taught with other popular TDI courses such as Advanced Nitrox, Decompression Procedures, Extended Range, Closed Circuit Rebreather, and Trimix.

What you can expect to learn

What you can expect to learn:

• Use of advanced wreck diving equipment including:
  • Primary cylinder(s)-dual outlet single tank, independent doubles, or doubles with isolation manifold
  • Decompression/stage cylinders
  • Redundant primary regulators
  • Primary and back-up lighting systems
  • Penetration/safety reels
  • Lift bag/SMBs
• Wreck penetration procedures
  • Equipment selection
  • Pre-dive checks and drills
  • Stress analysis and mitigation
  • Guideline use, deployment, following, retrieval
  • Team awareness and communication
  • Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss, omitted decompression, navigational errors, entrapment/entanglement, loss of visibility, injured/unconscious diver, etc)
  • SMB/lift bag deployment
• Proper trim, buoyancy and propulsion techniques

Course Equipment Requirements

The following equipment is required for each student

• Primary cylinder(s)
  • Cylinder volume appropriate for the planned dive and student gas consumption rate
  • Dual valve, double manifold or independent doubles
  • Labeled in accordance with TDI Standards
• Travel or decompression cylinders as required by site conditions
• Regulators
  • Primary and primary redundant required on all primary breathing cylinders
  • Submersible pressure gauges are required on all primary cylinder(s)
  • A contingency use long hose second stage should be designated and appropriately rigged to facilitate air sharing at depth if necessary
• Buoyancy compensator device(s) (BCD) adequate for the open water environment
• Primary and back-up depth and timing devices
• Air or multi-gas decompression computers allowed for use as depth and timing devices
• Light Systems
  • Primary
  • Back-up
• Ascent reel with lift bag/surface marker buoy or up-line
  • Adequate for the planned maximum depth
  • Adequate lift and size for the dive environment
• Exposure suit adequate for the open water environment
• Two line cutting devices
• Underwater slate
• Reels
  • Primary penetration reel
  • Safety reel
• Options that the instructor may require
  • Submersible dive tables
  • Bail-out cylinder with regulator
  • Jon-line
  • Compass, surface signaling device (flare, strobe, etc.)

Course Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• Minimum certification of SDI Advanced Adventure Diver or equivalent
• Certified SDI Wreck Diver or TDI Cavern Diver or equivalent
• Proof of 50 logged dives