CCR Trimix course

We have just finished a CCR trimix diver and Instructor course. After 7 days, 450 minutes in water training for our CCR trimix diver candidate and 550 minutes for our CCR trimix Instructor cross-over. WDT Dive would like to congratulate our new IANTD CCR Trimix Instructor in Las Vegas. Steve Schafer from Lake Mead Technical Divers has been a Trimix IT with IANTD for a long time already.
Congratulations also to our new CCR trimix diver James Killion from K Productionz who is an experienced O/C Trimix diver and Cave diver. James has developed good skills but most importantly a great attitude about training.
We never stop learning and every step guides us to new discovers everytime.
Great job guys! Looking forward to diving with you again.

Georges Gawinowski 

IANTD US South East Training Director

NSS/CDS Workshop 2012

The NSS/CDS workshop 2012 will be held this year in Live Oak, Florida.
This is good news for us since it is the home now of our WDT Dive facility and we will be there. WDT Dive is a NSS/CDS Facility. We teach most of the NSS/CDS training programs including Cavern diver, Apprentice Cave diver, Cave diver, CCR Cave diver and we supply NSS/CDS material.

See you there!
Safe cave dives

"you dive like you train"
Georges Gawinowski
NSS/CDS CCR cave Instructor

Gear Configuration

"Everything old is new again" Quote of the Essentials Manual by Georges Gawinowski.

One of my buddies gave me an old IANTD Technical diving configuration video from the 90s. That video was coming with the old Technical Diver Encyclopedia which was superb!

Tom Mount was presenting the basics of his technical diver gear configuration, clean, dependable, redundant, streamline, and understandable. That was good! This is realistic, everything made sense.
Billy Deans was showing his wreck diver configuration with a lot of back-up equipment for the type of diving he was doing, Lamar Hires was already showing his Sidemount configuration!! Larry Green talked about stage tanks and Jarrod Jablonski was demonstrating Hogarthian configuration.

This is simply beautiful! I share this DVD with all my Technical divers students. I think it is very important to be reminded and let people know about this tool. Thanks to you gentlemen, nowadays we have nice, dependable, redundant equipment configurations.

Georges Gawinowski
IANTD USA SE Training Director

CCR Megalodon Training

January 2012 was a very interesting month. I traveled to new places and had exiting dives.
Lake Mead is located in Las-Vegas in the middle of the desert, diving there feels like you are diving back into history. The water is cold, dark but very clear if you do not disturb the bottom. Advanced Teck diver level recommended. We do not want to take a lake for granted. But what a great place to train.

We had a great class. Congratulations to the 5 new CCR Megalodon divers:
- Tia
- Aaron
-Todd
-Kevin
-Xavier

Las-Vegas has now a new IANTD CCR Megalodon Instructor: Steve Schafer.

Special thanks to Steve Fannel, great diver and Photographer

You can dive Lake Mead with Lake Mead Technical Divers

IANTD Essentials network grows

The IANTD Essentials Instructors network is growing, we had an Instructor course at our WDT dive facility in cave-country last November.
Congratulations to our news Instructors:

Belgium: Patrick Vanstralen.
Caribe: Santo Domingo: Denis Bourret, Ramon Betancourt.
France: Romain Lhoste
Korea: Lee, Min-Ho
Spain: Francisco jose martinez Gonzalez, Antonio Jose vico Beltra.
USA: Steve Schafer

Please visit our website for informations regarding the Essentials course.

Safe dives.
Georges Gawinowski

CAVE DIVER course

What a nice week in cave country!

I like to post about classes when courses goes well, like the one we had last week. We had students form Norway, divers over there are used to dive harsh environment, they gave me feed back about the techniques they use over there.
I really respect theses guys diving freezing water.

We had a very smooth cave diving course, where they learned a lot about our Florida caves witches are for me some of the best in the world. I simply love the variety we have here.

After 600 minutes in water, and after diving Peacock, Telford, little River, Devil Eyes and Ear, time Svein has been certified has a NSS/CDS cave diver and an IANTD cave diver. He has passed both exams and has done a great job underwater.
Good Job cave divers!

Autumn is the best Season to train!

Temperature in cave country is getting lower, the is one of the best season to train here.
Check-out our next classes. From Essentials diver to apprentice cave, CCR Cave, CCR Megalodon diver and Instructor. We may have something for you.
Safe dives to you all.

August 29 to August 30
Essentials diver class
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Location: North Florida

August 30 to September 1
Essentials Instructor Class
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Location: North Florida

September 12 to September 13
Essentials diver class
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Location: North Florida

September 12 to September 18
Advanced Recreational Trimix Instructor
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Location: North Florida

September 23 to September 25
Megalodon CCR diver cross-over
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Location: North Florida

September 25 to October 4
Megalodon CCR Instructor class
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Location: North Florida

October 8 to October 9
NSS/CDS Apprentice cave diver
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Location: North Florida

October 24 to October 31
IANTD CCR Cave diver class
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Location: North Florida

November 5 to November 7
IANTD Essentials diver and Instructor class
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Location: North Florida

November 8 to November 11
IANTD CCR cave diver cross-over
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Location: North Florida

November 12 and November 13
NSS/CDS cave diver course
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Location: North Florida

November 14 to November 21
Megalodon CCR diver and Instructor
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Location: North Florida

WDT Facility in Cave country

We are happy to announce that WDT and Georges Gawinowski have moved to Live Oak in Cave country North Florida.
We are located in the mist of the most beautiful cave systems location in the world, to better serve our students.
Here in cave country we are still going to follow our philosophy and make sure that we still stay connected to our cave diver roots. We are in the best place to teach Cavern, Intro-cave, cave, CCR cave programs but also all IANTD and NSS/CDS programs from divers to Instructors.
We are dedicating ourselves to our Essentials way of teaching, with respecting our students and this beautiful environment.
Safe dive to all.
"You dive like you train".

The essentials of IANTD - The source of diving

Discover a new IANTD program for recreational and technical divers.

New Essential Instructor and New Megalodon Instructor

June was very interesting month, I traveled to Mexico.

I was pleased to find good peoples, and a professional staff with the Oceanos Dive shop in Guadalajara.

We have now a new IANTD Megalodon Instructor and a New Essential Instructor.

Congratulation to

- Alberto Ruiz Gaytan: Megalodon Instructor, Essential Instructor

- Marimar Ponce Limon: Essential diver

-Hector Gil: Essential diver

- Augustin Cervantes: Essential diver

-Alejandro Gomez: Megalodon diver

- Juan Perez: Megalodon diver

Safe dive to all