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Welcome To IANTD UK

Welcome to the home page for the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) in the United Kingdom.

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We at IANTD UK are proud to be embarking on our 17th year of operation in this country. From our beginnings in 1991 as Europe’s first Nitrox and Technical Diver training agency, we have maintained our position at the leading edge of diver training and now offer the widest variety of courses available anywhere. Whether you are just starting to dive, a fairly experienced diver looking for something more or a very experienced diver about to embark on a new branch of the sport, IANTD is for you.

Our talented, professional and highly qualified instructors and instructor trainers all operate through IANTD affiliated dive shops and training centres and it is an absolute requirement that every IANTD educator carries instructor insurance.

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Use the Facility Map and Facility and Instructor listings on this site to find IANTD dive centres in your area or look for an instructor who can offer the level of training you are searching for. On other pages you will find a Training chart giving you an idea of the training path options you can follow with IANTD and an Online Shop where you can find a unique selection of reference books, dive tables, decals, cylinder labels and other essential accessories for the diver. If you want to read further, other sections outline our Training Standards, giving you detailed information on what each IANTD course involves, and you can also read our Mission Statement and Training Philosophy.

If you cannot find what you are looking for here or if you have suggestions as to how we can improve our site we look forward to hearing from you.

News

Breaking News!!!

We at IANTD UK are proud to have been involved with a terrific joint production between the HSE and SKY News, a film called CO2 - The Rebreather Incident which represents a huge step forward in the promotion of safe diving using rebreathers. The film can be found at

http://www.hse.gov.uk/diving/video/co2video.htm

While stocks last, we are giving away a copy of the film on DVD to anyone who places an order with the IANTD UK On-line Shop.

Nitrox for Beginners!

The IANTD Open Water Nitrox Diver Course

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IANTD diver training is not just for advanced and experienced divers! The same high quality education that the top divers in Britain have been benefitting from for almost two decades now is available to new divers too.

With our Open Water Diver Course combined with our ground breaking Nitrox Diver Course, we have a training programme which gives a new diver the best possible start in the sport and puts them well ahead of anyone following a more conventional route.

As you can see from the cover pages of the 2008 Open Water Diver Manual, the "fun" of diving is the primary focus and both books are highly readable and nicely set out. As you would expect from IANTD, however, the training does not "dumb down" to the student in any way.

It was IANTD who first introduced the concept of teaching the use of nitrox mixes to new divers, allowing them to benefit from the greater oxygen and reduced nitrogen content to extend their no-decompression dive time or increase their decompression safety margin.

So if you have a friend who wants to learn to dive, direct them to your local IANTD dive centre or instructor and ask about the cost and availability of the Open Water Nitrox Diver Course!




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