SDI Diver News

SDI TDI Instructor Trainer Matt Reed briefs members of the Bantay Dagat on their environmental efforts. If you were to ask Matt Reed, SDI TDI Instructor Trainer, or David Joyce, SDI TDI Instructor of Evolution Diving, what they were going … Continue reading »

What does it mean to be a diver: explorer, lover of the outdoors, adventure seeker? Perhaps it is all of these combined and summed up by saying, someone who is passionate about diving and sharing that passion with anyone that … Continue reading »

Sometimes, the best things to see underwater are at deeper depths. For example, the coral “walls” of the Caribbean are a riot of color. The coral walls that ring many of the islands rise vertically from the bottom out of … Continue reading »

In diving, as in your personal life, planning for future events always takes place in different stages. Some portions of the plan are quite long range, while others are more immediate and take place just prior to the dive itself. … Continue reading »

Every deep dive should have a purpose, a reason for making the dive other than just to “go deep.” Deep diving requires additional training, equipment, and preparation, so this is an activity that should not be taken lightly. Planning for … Continue reading »

Oh yes you do! On every dive! It says so right in the law book. Laws of physics, that is. As sport divers cruising the coral reef or seeking out the best site for underwater photography, we tend to lose … Continue reading »

Bo Tibbetts from Public Safety Dive Supply in Grand Junction, Colorado and Konstantine Kovelinko from Underwater Dynamics in Orem, UT completed their Instructor trainer program in Grand Junction, Colorado on May 19, 2012. From Left to Right: Dennis Pulley, Konstantine … Continue reading »

If you already own dive equipment — an exposure suit, BCD, regulators and so on — you can dive with Nitrox mixtures containing 40 percent oxygen or less, without purchasing any additional equipment. There are a couple of things you … Continue reading »

After another successful TDI and Poseidon event (first one was in 2009), TDI is ready to pair up with Poseidon and do it again, and this time we are headed to the Midwest. If you are a current CCR instructor … Continue reading »

In your research into Nitrox, you may have heard that there are fire and explosion risks when you use gas mixtures that have oxygen levels greater than what is present in the air (higher than 21 percent). Certainly, gas mixtures … Continue reading »