Harry Gust
Cave Explorations

WhatsApp +52 984 125-0081
Tel. Mexico +52 984 125-0081
E-mail: info@caveexplorations.com

Essential Skills Training

Essential Skills are useful for divers that are cave/tech-bound divers. Introducing divers to diving with Technical Dive Equipment Backmount or Sidemount. Learning to configure, streamline the equipment and specific skills not required for the Recreational Rating.
The course starts with a focus on refining your stable platform: buoyancy, trim, stability, control, propulsion, and maneuvering, as well as team diving and situational awareness. Focus then shifts to challenging this stable platform and situational awareness by progressively increasing task loading using basic and more advanced skills. Skills include: underwater communication, donation to an out-of-gas diver, traveling with an out-of-gas diver, valve manipulation drills, no-mask comfort and teamwork. Reviewing underwater video footage of your dives to critique and discuss why we do these things the way we do them with this specific equipment set-up.
For those not yet nitrox certified, certification to dive 32% nitrox is available through successful completion of this course.

What’s in it for YOU!!!

The training provides recreational divers with a context in which to advance their basic diving skills, comfort and confidence in the water with aspirations of progressing to Technical and Cave Diving with the appropriate preparation for success.

  • Refine basic diving skills.
  • Gain capacity that will increase your safety and enjoyment while diving.
  • Discover how to get more bottom time by being more efficient underwater.
  • Learn how and why to dive with nitrox.
  • Put new “tools” in the bag (e.g. new kicks, including kicking backwards).
  • Gain stability, buoyancy, and control that allows you to see more.

Two training days at a minimum for the cost please go to the Price List

WhatsApp +52 984 125-0081
Tel. Mexico +52 984 125-0081
E-mail: info@caveexplorations.com