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Introduction & Background

After being in quiet development for several years, the long awaited technical diving training program developed by InDepth Training Inc was revealed to the public for the first time at the Asia Dive Exhibition (ADEX) held in Bangkok in April 2007.

The first major revision to Technical Diving training in many years, InDepth Training’s new, modular and flexible approach represents a response to the many voices of instructors and divers alike who have been calling out for a training system which reflects the way state of the art advanced diving is being done in the present day, rather than how it was developed decades ago. Diving knowledge, equipment, gases, dive sites and techniques have evolved immensely since their humble beginnings. But in the last several decades, there has been little or no effort to update materials, training and diving techniques into an effective, integrated and flexible modern methodology covering all facets of advanced diving, until now.

ADT Training is focused on building confident, competent and safe divers through clear, simple and concise instruction with rigorous in water training and highly refined real world applicable diving skills that are up-to-date, make sense and are stripped of nonsense.

Problems with traditional training

The main problems with traditional training and the progress of advanced diving as a sport has been that technical diving is widely seen as “scary”, weird and difficult – in short, it has a very narrow appeal. It just hasn’t made enough sense and been seen as thorough, safe and professional enough. A few of the reasons for this include:

• Students from sport diving are coming into advanced “tech” programs with severe lack of basic skills, causing discomfort and safety problems.
• Initial training has been too difficult, leading to high scare-off factors and low diver retention. Conversely, later training is sometimes too lax and undeveloped, leading to the possibility of unsafe and incomplete divers as well as lower training retention.
• Lack of standardization of methodology, skills and procedures – even within the agencies!
• Outdated content, low quality materials - the internet has consistently been a better source than the course manuals. In fact, the internet communities have been light years ahead of the agencies for more than a decade!
• Manuals and courses are still utilizing outdated (and possibly dangerous) dive tables that might not fit the purpose or objective. When the course was written, perhaps they were the only tables available, but hopefully no one is actually really diving these anymore.
• Incomplete standards, poor materials and lack of standardization has left most diving instructors stranded, left to fend for themselves and feeling that they must “invent” their own updates to course obsolete content. While this has maybe worked ok for some good instructors, it leads to inconsistencies and problems due to a lack of standardization at all levels …. and a not a few disastrous accidents.
• Divers, and their instructors, have simply not been properly prepared, skills- and knowledge-wise, for the rigors of advanced diving, with resulting problems as well as in an unprofessional image and a bad reputation for the entire industry.

It is abundantly clear that the traditional training available on today’s market at both sport and technical levels does not always give divers the tools to become comfortable and confident divers, resulting in low diver retention and sub-optimal experiences for everyone involved in the industry. It is well recognized that less than 10% of Open Water students will progress to higher levels of training, and similar numbers are true for the initial technical diving course for most agencies.

Welcome to the first InDepth Newsletter Ever! Vol 1, No 1, 1/07

InDepth Training is the newest, freshest concept in dive training breaking onto the diving scene in the 21st century. We want to know -- Where did the FUN go? Where did the ADVENTURE go? When did the GOOD TIMES die? In the coming months, you will hear more about us as we turn the diving world on its ear with the first totally new concept in dive training in 40 years! Sport Diving, Technical Diving, and take a look at PERT!

Want to know more? You can start by looking at our websites, which are undergoing total makeovers. You will see we are new. We will not oversell ourselves. We believe you will want to develop your diving with us. If you do not, we want to know why not?

So while our recreational programs are being readied, we do not want to hold back our talented instructors’ extraordinary teaching abilities and their exciting dive adventures from you. These top professionals have developed their training and diving abilities with the aid of other agencies, and we recognize the value of all of these programs, as they are the precursors to the development of InDepth. We will highlight a different member of our development team in each newsletter, and you can be amongst the privileged to have trained and dived with these men who are developing this revolutionary and exciting dive training program.

Our first featured “celebrity” is Cedric Verdier. Rather than introduce Cedric here, we invite you to visit his websites and learn about his extensive background. Before we make him too busy, please get acquainted with a man who will be known as a true pioneer in diving some of the last underwater frontiers using the latest equipment and technologies.

Cedric's Rebreathers, Caves and other Adventures

As most of the technical divers, you like to read articles about Technical Diving, Closed- Circuit Rebreathers, Deep Cave and Wreck exploration. That's the reason why you should visit www.cedricverdier.com on page Articles. you'll find there a comprehensive collection of very specialized articles.

And if you're interested in cave diving, as the Safety Officer for South-East Asia, I'm responsible about the promotion of safe cave diving practice in the region. Don't hesitate to contact me about safety, education and any cave diving specific question you might have.

At the suggestion of many of the top recreational instructors in SE Asia, and with similar inputs from Australia, Europe and the Red Sea areas, not to mention North Asia and, as seen on various North American internet chat boards, there is, globally, a very apparent desire for an overhaul of the traditional recreational scuba diving training programs. Coupled with this trend is the all-prevailing intrusion of modern training techniques throughout sports training of all types and at all levels, made all the more imperative and, at the same time, achievable, by the penetration of the worldwide web. Rising to this challenge is a team of very experienced dive professionals who are developing a new recreational training program for both Sport and Tech diving. We are InDepth Training, and you can see the first vestiges at www.indepth-training.com.

The concept of InDepth is to achieve the highest integrity of training content and execution, while also bearing in mind that the divers, the customers, are demanding even higher levels of quality entertainment. Diving is a leisure time activity, and must start out as such; an enjoyable past-time for all, with safety and content quality as two of the guiding principles.

InDepth will be conform to the norms of dive training, but will be very different. There are already 4 or 5 major agencies offering sport diving training. For certain courses, the recreational scuba industry training guidelines govern the content and execution of the training. But for the other courses, as an example, what is the difference between the wreck courses of each of the other 4 major training agencies? InDepth courses will be designed to stand out amongst the rest. If our courses compete with others, ours should be different. In Sport Diving, there many opportunities. In Tech diving, the opportunity is very profound.

InDepth is redesigning the entire tech diving training course syllabus and progression. InDepth, like some others, feels that 20 years of the original modular progression invites an overhaul. The two most recent new entries into tech diving training, have displayed this. We agree but feel that there is a more appropriate way of approaching this training. And this is one of the major programs in which the InDepth experts are now engaged in designing.

InDepth Training Inc. announces no cost program for active instructors and facilities.