Wreck Diving Essentials: Overhead Environment Protocols Course

Wreck Diver Core Penetration Skills

The Wreck Essentials course is advanced-level wreck penetration training. focusing on proficient line-laying, and key emergency protocols. It can be done as a stand-alone course, or as a refined skills top-up for existing recreational wreck divers. This training ensures you can operate safely and comfortably within the wreck overhead environment.

If you aspire to become a serious wreck diver but don’t have time for the full Advanced or Technical level courses – this is the starting point for you!

About the Wreck Essentials Course

The Wreck Essentials course is designed to boost your proficiency in wreck penetration diving. It develops and refines your existing wreck diving certification so that you build a high degree of competency and experience in the necessary skillset.

Who is the Wreck Essentials course designed for?

The Wreck Essentials course is flexible to be delivered to the level of the student.

• Divers taking their first step into wreck penetration diving
• Certified recreational wreck divers who received insufficient penetration-specific training on their wreck diver course.

It is suitable as a starting point in wreck penetration diving, or for divers who are already wreck certified through a mainstream recreational wreck diver course. The course delivers more overhead environment experience while refining and expanding the wreck diving skillset with modern best practices.

What skills does the overhead environment clinic cover?

• Equipment configuration for overhead environment diving
• Gas redundancy options – pony, doubles, sidemount
• Team/buddy descent check and safety drill  (S-Drill).
• Effective communication, hand signal, light, and touch contact
• Guideline deployment, following and retrieval, maintaining team contact
• Non-silting propulsion techniques
• Long hose gas-sharing and exiting an out-of-gas diver.
• Guideline following as a team in simulated zero visibility (touch contact)
• Lost guideline search protocol in simulated zero visibility
• Primary light failure and backup light deployment.

What are the prerequisites for the clinic?

• Advanced Open Water and above
• 25+ logged dives
• 18 years or over

Student divers are expected to display a good standard of core diving skills, including; precision buoyancy, trim, weighting, non-silting fin kicks, situational awareness, gas management, and dive planning.  This course will improve all of those aspects of your diving, but I advise doing a Performance Diver course in preparation if your buoyancy control, trim, maneuvering, propulsion, and situational awareness skills need significant improvement.

How much does the Wreck Essentials course cost?

The stated cost includes all tuition and instruction from Andy Davis

• Max 3 per course (no minimum students)
• Scheduled courses will be run even if just one student
• Discounts available for group booking
• Private lessons are available at a 50% surcharge
• Training can be scheduled to meet your requirements
• 25% non-refundable deposit to confirm attendance on the course

Tuition cost excludes dive facility fees covering tank rentals, nitrox/trimix fills, and boat costs, as required. Instructor diving costs are split between students.

Take the step to wreck diving expertise…