{"id":1830,"count":6,"description":"Technical Diving Skills\r\nTechnical diving skillsarticles from an expert tech instructor. This series of articles aims to deliver knowledge, experience, and advice beyond the limitations of a technical diving course manual.\r\n\r\nIf you are looking to broaden your technical diving academic and theory understanding, then my skills and procedures articles should help you a lot.\r\nMy tech diving skills articles topics include;\r\n\r\n \tTechnical diving protocols\r\n \tTechnical diving procedures\r\n \tTechnical diving skills\r\n \tTechnical diving techniques\r\n \tTechnical diving training\r\n\r\nDisclosure\r\nscubatechphilippines.com\u00a0is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program; I may earn commission from qualifying purchases made through affiliate advertising links included in articles on this blog.<\/em>\r\n\r\nI only endorse and recommend products that I have used myself, or know to be highly recommended by expert diving peers. There is no additional cost to you from purchasing through affiliate links on this site.\r\n\r\nAbout the Author\r\n\r\nAndy Davis is a RAID, PADI TecRec, ANDI, BSAC, and SSI-qualified independent technical diving instructor who specializes in teaching advanced sidemount, trimix, and wreck exploration diving courses across South East Asia.\u00a0 Currently residing in \u2018wreck diving heaven\u2019 at Subic Bay, Philippines, he has amassed more than 9000 open-circuit and CCR dives over 27 years of diving across the globe.\r\n\r\nAndy has published many magazine articles on technical diving, has written course materials for dive training agency syllabus, tests, and reviews diving gear for major manufacturers, and consults with the Philippines Underwater Archaeology Society.\r\n\r\nHe is currently writing a series of books to be published on advanced diving topics.\u00a0 Prior to becoming a professional technical diving educator in 2006, Andy was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force and has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Belize, and Cyprus.\r\n","link":"https:\/\/scubatechphilippines.com\/scuba_blog\/category\/technical_diving_articles\/technical-diving-skills\/","name":"Technical diving skills","slug":"technical-diving-skills","taxonomy":"category","parent":604,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Technical diving skills Archives - Andy Davis Sidemount Technical Wreck Diving Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scubatechphilippines.com\/scuba_blog\/technical_diving_articles\/technical-diving-skills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Technical diving skills Archives - Andy Davis Sidemount Technical Wreck Diving Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Technical Diving Skills Technical diving skillsarticles from an expert tech instructor. 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About the Author Andy Davis is a RAID, PADI TecRec, ANDI, BSAC, and SSI-qualified independent technical diving instructor who specializes in teaching advanced sidemount, trimix, and wreck exploration diving courses across South East Asia.\u00a0 Currently residing in \u2018wreck diving heaven\u2019 at Subic Bay, Philippines, he has amassed more than 9000 open-circuit and CCR dives over 27 years of diving across the globe. Andy has published many magazine articles on technical diving, has written course materials for dive training agency syllabus, tests, and reviews diving gear for major manufacturers, and consults with the Philippines Underwater Archaeology Society. 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