Why take the Advanced Cave DPV course?
IANTD/IDF Advanced Cave DPV cave divers are known worldwide for successfully using DPVs during long-range exploration cave dives. Cave diving has a long tradition of using diver propulsion vehicles (DPVs) or scooters. DPVs are often used to increase penetration distance or carry additional heavy dive equipment into the cave.
Because a DPV failure in an overhead environment can expose divers to high risk, using a DPV safely during such dives requires in-depth knowledge of gas management and contingency planning.
Who is it for?
As an advanced cave diving course, Advanced Cave DPV is for experienced Technical Multistage Cave divers with prior DPV experience.
In the Advanced Cave DPV class, you’ll practice all scooter-specific skills to a mastery level. The course emphasizes awareness, navigation, dive planning, and gas management using multistages and multiple DPVs.
What will I learn?
Course outcomes include, but are not limited to, reinforced skills from the IANTD/IDF Technical DPV course, management of multiple DPVs and all the ramifications of their use, stage cylinder handling, and cave environment-specific applications.
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Applicants must:
- Be qualified in IANTD/IDF Advanced Technical Multistage Cave Diver or equivalent;
- Be a minimum of 18 years of age;
- Be physically and mentally fit;
- Obtain a physician’s prior written authorization for the use of prescription drugs, except for birth control, or for any medical condition that may pose a risk while diving;
- Be experienced with Technical DPV and related skills (minimum skills and knowledge required: basic principles of DPV diving, dive planning, teamwork while using a DPV, environmental and conservation awareness, stress management, navigation, standard and emergency procedures, DPV maintenance and troubleshooting, and the potential hazards of diving with a DPV). Please refer to the Technical DPV course for more information;
- Have a minimum of 50 logged cave dives.
The IANTD/TDI Advanced Cave DPV Course is usually conducted over three days. It requires at least four cave dives, 240 minutes of in-water work, and instruction including classroom lectures and land drills.
Transfer from Playa del Carmen included.
Students must bring their own tech-level diving gear, including tow-behind DPV (requirements will be provided upon registration) or borrow/rent it, pay for their gases and tank rentals, cenote entree and agency certification fees is not included
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OK GUYS, I GONNA BE YOUR CAVE INSTRUCTOR
Alexander Vronsky
Founder, Cave Ha Diving Mexico
IANTD and IDF Instructor Trainer. IDF Course Director.
Cave and technical instructor trainer: Cavern to Technical Cave, Technical to Master Deep.
CCR instructor: Dual CCR and Dual CCR Cave, GBM CCR (Nitrox to Trimix 100), S7 CCR (Nitrox to Helitrox), CCR Cave, CCR Technical Cave, and CCR Expedition Cave on GBM, S7, SF2, JJ, and Fathom.
Authorized dealer for S7 and GBM rebreathers. TDI technical instructor.
GUE member. GUE Cave 2, Cave DPV, Cave CCR, CCR 2, Tec 3
Elected representative of CREER (Comité Regional de Espeleobuceo, Ecología y Regulación), the regional cave diving committee of Quintana Roo.
Alexander lives and teaches year-round in Playa del Carmen, in the Riviera Maya, home to nine of the ten largest underwater cave systems in the world. He trained every cave and technical instructor on the Cave Ha team.
Before dedicating himself to diving, Alexander spent many years running large-scale technical and broadcast operations, including for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. That background is why the logistics behind every course here simply work.
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