Learn cave diving with Georges Gawinowski at WDTdive facility in north Florida,
offering cave diving training on the following cave diver courses
WDT Dive teaches under the standards of NSS/CDS and IANTD cave diving programs. To get both certifications WDT provides both agencies student materials, exams, and skills. Each course follows a pedagogical approach combination of lectures, landrills, confined water practice and cavern and/or cave dives for each specialty and course.
CAVERN DIVER
Cavern diver program is designed to develop cavern diving skills within the limits of light penetration and to insure that the divers are aware of self-responsibility and capable of risk management in an overhead environment.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent. Must provide proof of a minimum of 10 logged dives. Must be a minimum of 15 years of age with a parent or guardian authorization, or a minimum of 18 years of age without guardian approval.
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Number of Days: 2 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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BASIC/INTRO-CAVE DIVER
Intro cave diver program is designed to provide an introduction to the cave diving environment for Sport Divers.The course develops the minimum skills and knowledge for limited penetration cave diving.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, Overhead Environment Diver or equivalent qualification (NSS/CDS, NACD or CDAA Cavern Diver). Must provide proof of a minimum of 25 logged dives or sufficient experience to satisfy the instructor that the student has the ability and knowledge to continue into this level of training. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 3 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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APPRENTICE CAVE DIVER
Apprentice Cave diver program is designed to provide a coverage of most of the academics and emergency skills required for full cave diving.
Students will make some simple explorations off the main line. Emphasis is upon dive planning and skills development through actual cave dives.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, NSS/CDS Basic/Intro cave diver or equivalent, Nitrox diver recommended. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 2 to 3 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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CAVE DIVER
Cave Diver program is designed to train divers in safe cave diving, this is the fourth step in the cave diver career.
The final step in the process, the focus here is on gaining additional practice of all fundamental and emergency skills, under more challenging conditions. Students are expected to demonstrate their readiness to be full-fledged members of the cave diving community.More complex scenarions than thoses practiced before such as line jumps, gaps, circuits and traverses.
Between 12 to 16 training dives is required to reach this point, it is not unusual for students to have made many more practice dives on their own before full Cave Diver certification.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, NSS/CDS Apprentice Cave diver or equivalent, Nitrox diver. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 2 to 3 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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CCR CAVE DIVER upgrade
The purpose of the upgrade is to train open circuit cave divers to the techniques of Closed Circuit Rebreather for cave diving.
Prerequisites : NSS/CDS cave diver or equivalent. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age. Closed Circuit Rebreather diver with a minimun of 25 dives with 35 hours of dive time on the Rebreather.
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Number of Days: 4 Number of dives: 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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FULL CAVE DIVER week Long program:
This program is designed for students who can not follow the recommended 4 steps approach Cavern/Intro/Apprentice/Cave.
Prerequisites : Must have proof of 100 dives or sufficient experience doing technical dives to satisfy the instructor that the student has the ability and knowledge to continue into this level of training.Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 8 Number of dives: 16 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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CCR CAVE DIVER WEEK LONG PROGRAM
The purpose of the program is to teach certified rebreather diver in the techniques and methods of cave diving utilizing a closed circuit rebreather
Prerequisites : Certified as a Closed Circuit Rebreather diver with a minimun of 25 dives with 35 hours of dive time on the Rebreather. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 8 days Number of dives: 10 to 12 dives Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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SPECIALITIES and ADVANCED CAVE DIVER PROGRAMS
TECHNICAL CAVE DIVER/STAGE CAVE DIVER
This Program is designed to train divers in safe cave diving and, if doing Technical Cave, the technical utilization of EANx for cave exploration, and the use of EANx and oxygen for decompression.
Prerequisites : must be a certified as a cave diver. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 2 Number of dives: 3 to 4 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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DEEP CAVE DIVER
This program is designed to provide cave diver training for cave dives up to 300 feet 90 meters. The uses of Trimix mixtures, Nitrox and oxygen for decompression.
Prerequisites : Must be a certified as a cave diver, Trimix diver or take the IANTD Trimix course. Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
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Number of Days: 4 Number of dives: 5 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes.
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CAVERN DIVER
Cavern diver program is designed to develop cavern diving skills within the limits of light penetration and to insure that the divers are aware of self-responsibility and capable of risk management in an overhead environment.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent. Must provide proof of a minimum of 10 logged dives. Must be a minimum of 15 years of age with a parent or guardian authorization, or a minimum of 18 years of age without guardian approval.
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Number of Days: 2 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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BASIC/INTRO-CAVE DIVER
Intro cave diver program is designed to provide an introduction to the cave diving environment for Sport Divers.The course develops the minimum skills and knowledge for limited penetration cave diving.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, Overhead Environment Diver or equivalent qualification (NSS/CDS, NACD or CDAA Cavern Diver). Must provide proof of a minimum of 25 logged dives or sufficient experience to satisfy the instructor that the student has the ability and knowledge to continue into this level of training. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 3 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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APPRENTICE CAVE DIVER
Apprentice Cave diver program is designed to provide a coverage of most of the academics and emergency skills required for full cave diving.
Students will make some simple explorations off the main line. Emphasis is upon dive planning and skills development through actual cave dives.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, NSS/CDS Basic/Intro cave diver or equivalent, Nitrox diver recommended. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 2 to 3 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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CAVE DIVER
Cave Diver program is designed to train divers in safe cave diving, this is the fourth step in the cave diver career.
The final step in the process, the focus here is on gaining additional practice of all fundamental and emergency skills, under more challenging conditions. Students are expected to demonstrate their readiness to be full-fledged members of the cave diving community.More complex scenarions than thoses practiced before such as line jumps, gaps, circuits and traverses.
Between 12 to 16 training dives is required to reach this point, it is not unusual for students to have made many more practice dives on their own before full Cave Diver certification.
Prerequisites Must be qualified as an Advanced Open Water Diver, NSS/CDS Apprentice Cave diver or equivalent, Nitrox diver. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 2 to 3 Number of dives: 4 to 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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CCR CAVE DIVER upgrade
The purpose of the upgrade is to train open circuit cave divers to the techniques of Closed Circuit Rebreather for cave diving.
Prerequisites : NSS/CDS cave diver or equivalent. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age. Closed Circuit Rebreather diver with a minimun of 25 dives with 35 hours of dive time on the Rebreather.
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Number of Days: 4 Number of dives: 6 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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FULL CAVE DIVER week Long program:
This program is designed for students who can not follow the recommended 4 steps approach Cavern/Intro/Apprentice/Cave.
Prerequisites : Must have proof of 100 dives or sufficient experience doing technical dives to satisfy the instructor that the student has the ability and knowledge to continue into this level of training.Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 8 Number of dives: 16 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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CCR CAVE DIVER WEEK LONG PROGRAM
The purpose of the program is to teach certified rebreather diver in the techniques and methods of cave diving utilizing a closed circuit rebreather
Prerequisites : Certified as a Closed Circuit Rebreather diver with a minimun of 25 dives with 35 hours of dive time on the Rebreather. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 8 days Number of dives: 10 to 12 dives Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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SPECIALITIES and ADVANCED CAVE DIVER PROGRAMS
TECHNICAL CAVE DIVER/STAGE CAVE DIVER
This Program is designed to train divers in safe cave diving and, if doing Technical Cave, the technical utilization of EANx for cave exploration, and the use of EANx and oxygen for decompression.
Prerequisites : must be a certified as a cave diver. Must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
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Number of Days: 2 Number of dives: 3 to 4 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes
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DEEP CAVE DIVER
This program is designed to provide cave diver training for cave dives up to 300 feet 90 meters. The uses of Trimix mixtures, Nitrox and oxygen for decompression.
Prerequisites : Must be a certified as a cave diver, Trimix diver or take the IANTD Trimix course. Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
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Number of Days: 4 Number of dives: 5 Lectures: Yes Confined water dive: Yes Land Drills: Yes.
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