What will You learn?
The NAUI Technical Overhead DPV Course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimize risks while conducting dives with a Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) in a technical overhead environment; i.e. open water decompression, cave or mine.
NAUI Technical Overhead DPV Course covers basic principles and skills to conduct technical DPV dives. Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to plan and execute DPV dives without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.
How to navigate and operate an overhead environment with a DPV with proper bailout and emergency gas supplies for technical cave or shipwreck penetration dives.
Prerequisites:
Cave Diver Level 2
Minimum 100 cave dives
Availability:
Upon request in Florida
Training Agency
NAUI
Additional Details:
Similar Skills and Standards as L1 and L2, with the addition of divers being qualified to plan and execute extended penetration cave dives requiring extended decompression. Course focusses on the dive team planning aspects of extended decompression cave diving. Decompression Diving, DPV, Multiple Stage Bottles, Mixed gas diving with Helium based mixes and more. This is the most extreme exposure overhead environment diving course available.
Students who have completed NAUI Cave 1 & 2 and who have logged a minimum of 100 cave dives can enroll in Extreme Exposure DPV.
Cost: Please call or email the shop for details
Where Do I Go From Here?
Here are some popular examples of courses commonly taken by graduates of this course:
- Trimix Level 1
- Advanced Trimix
- Extreme Exposure Trimix
- Technical Support Leader
- CCR Diver
- CCR Cave Diver
