Intro to Tech, Advanced Nitrox & Deco Procedures Instructor

Our TDI instructor training package in Gozo, Malta prepares you to teach the foundations of tech diving under the TDI diver training system. This includes the Intro to Tech, Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures programmes.

Apart from specifics relating to the individual courses or course combinations, we will cover the history of TDI’s parent company International Training Inc., general training standards and philosophy including how best to teach technical divers, the business side of technical diving and risk management.

In addition, we will review technical diving theory before candidates give their own academic presentations. By far the largest part of your TDI instructor training is spent in-water. We generally start with skill circuits before moving on to in-water teaching presentations and decompression dives. Wherever possible, our instructor courses are taught using real students who are really learning a particular skillset.

We also spend time considering the specific environment and logistics within which our instructor candidates are planning to teach, allowing them to customise their own TDI courses right from the start. TDI’s curriculum offers instructors a great deal of flexibility, allowing you to make your courses fit your students’ needs. 

Course Details

  • Minimum 10 days / 12 dives – 4 of those are decompression dives. More days may be required if all training is done with an actual student.
  • Dives will include skill circuits in either or both configurations as well as in-water teaching presentations
  • Academic presentations and workshops
  • Online micro-class on Human Factors in Diving

Check out our price list and contact us directly to talk about a customised package for you.

You will also need to pay TDI registration fees.

  • TDI materials (choice of manual or eLearning if available)
  • tank hire and bottom gas as required for the dives EXCLUDING helium and deco gas
  • video analysis of dives
  • use of the O’Dive Doppler sensor for decompression optimization
  • Human Factors micro-class
  • To complete your TDI instructor training within 10 days and 12 dives, you need to arrive ready to hit the ground running. If you prefer to have additional time to improve diving skills or increase comfort in a specific configuration simply add build-up days. Talks to us about a package to suit your needs. 
  • You can also complete these three course levels individually.
  • 18 years old
  • Medical form signed by a physician
  • OWSI or higher certification with a minimum of 10 Nitrox specialities and 10 Deep specialities OR 10 Advanced Open Water certifications taught
  • Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures Diver or higher certification
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Beyond Diving Skills

As a technical diving instructor you apply and teach more than diving skills and theory. 

Making decisions in stressful situations, working in a team and communicating effectively – in short, non-technical skills – are all part of the courses you teach and are crucial to your students’ success. 

Therefore, all of our instructor training courses include the micro-class offered by The Human Diver as mandatory pre-learning for your instructor level training.

If you’d like to start reading ahead of time, check out the related book, Under Pressure.

“This is currently the most important topic for modern sport diving.” 

Professor Simon Mitchell