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  1. Jeff_S

    UTD Podcasts are Online

    Hey Everybody, our next podcast is online. In this episode UTD instructor and public safety dive team leader Shannon Buhl talks about integrating UTD training with public safety diving. Thanks Shannon! Previous episodes are on Ghost Net Recovery Diving and Recreational Side Mount Diving. ‎UTD...
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    For Sale Scuba Pool - Portable, Above Ground 6.5' Deep

    Legacy above ground swimming pool, lightly used, always indoors. Just three years old. 17x29, 6.5 feet deep, 18,000 gallons. Requires 24x34 area (not including deck). Includes: Hayward 150 gas heater, six months old, interior and exterior kits. Hayward sand filter with top valve, one month old...
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    Portable Above Ground Swimming Pool for Scuba Training

    Legacy above ground swimming pool, lightly used, always indoors. Just three years old. 17x29, 6.5 feet deep, 18,000 gallons. Requires 24x34 area (not including deck). Includes: Hayward 150 gas heater, three months old, interior and exterior kits. Hayward sand filter with top valve, one month...
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    Instructors - Need a Pool, Classroom, and Fill Station?

    Instructors, check out the San Diego Watersports Instructor Membership Program. This is perfect for any local instructor who needs an infrastructure for teaching. The program includes 24/4 access to the San Diego facility including the onsite 20'x30' heated pool, classroom, tanks, weights...
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    Sidemount gear configuration practices - 4 questions

    Gearhound, Yes, that's my point, that there is no standard, so we created one, along with agency-wide training, within our community of instructors and students, and it integrates with the standard back gas config. On the long hose question, the Z-System is set up exactly like back gas...
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    Sidemount gear configuration practices - 4 questions

    Answering the posts, and ignoring the slam from someone who has obviously not seen the Z-System. A low pressure distribution block, either with or without an isolator, sits behind your head in the same position as the isolator manifold on a set of doubles. Gas from one or two side mount...
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    Sidemount gear configuration practices - 4 questions

    From a training agency perspective it's fascinating to read these posts and see the massive inconsistency in current side mount gear configurations...long hose on the left, long hose on the right, long hose stuffed, long hose wrapped, short hose too long, too short, on the necklace, not on the...
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    Recreational Sidemount ...

    Bob, Our Essentials of Side Mount class teaches the same personal skills as the back mount class: proper weighting, buoyancy, trim, propulsion, s-drills, smb. Essentials of Tech adds valve drills and gas switch. Essentials of Overhead doesn't teach gas switch, but does teach basic line...
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    Recreational Sidemount ...

    As an agency, we released a UTD broad-based side mount program in 2010. This was after years of "monkey diving," tech diving with stages, rebreather diving with bailout on the side, etc. The most important thing was to make side mount consistent across the board: recreational, technical, and...
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    Information Meetings at DEMA about becoming a UTD Instructor

    We are in the process of setting up informational meetings at DEMA for anyone interested in learning about becoming a UTD Instructor and/or participating in the UTD-X Program. We now have about 80 instructors world wide and are limiting training to about 30 new instructors per year...
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    Information Meetings at DEMA about becoming a UTD Instructor

    We are in the process of setting up informational meetings at DEMA for anyone interested in learning about becoming a UTD Instructor and/or participating in the UTD-X Program. We now have about 80 instructors world wide and are limiting training to about 30 new instructors per year. We're...
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    What is up with UTD?

    Hi...membership approved. We weren't getting the notifications, so that's fixed now. Jeff
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    HSA Instructor Training Course July 14-16, Carlsbad, CA

    We are running an Handicapped Scuba Association Instructor Training Course at UTD headquarters in Carslbad, CA July 14-16 and still have a few spots left. Click here for details or call me at 323-314-6501.
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    In-Water Skills on Adv/Tec Sidemount Courses (agency approaches)

    UTD Side Mount classes are outlined here: Side Mount Classes - Unified Team Diving Specifically Essentials of Tech Side Mount here: Essentials of Tech/Cave/Wreck Side Mount Class - Unified Team Diving Please let us know if you have additional questions or would like more info. Jeff
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    Which hose, 7 ft or 5 ft?

    Ron is exactly correct. The 7' hose is necessary in an overhead environment in order to airshare in single file, and is more common with most divers. The 5' hose will work perfectly well and will route easily. If you plan on moving on to tech, cave, or wreck, it makes more sense to start out...
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    Side mount single tank appropriate for recreational Open Water diving?

    Disclaimer: I'm am one of the founders of UTD, so I'm completely biased. That said, I have hundreds and hundreds of dives in the UTD Z-System - singles, doubles, and doubles with stages or deco bottles. I was teaching in Florida a few weeks ago, dove a single 80 for most of it, then when we had...
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    UTD site membership

    Hi Christopher, Purchasing the classroom materials includes a student membership and gets you some of the freebies, like the 1-year membership and the keychain card (the card will get issued after you complete the in-water portion of the class). Your Essentials of Rec classroom includes...
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    3-Day Photo Contest for New UTD Open Water Book Cover

    We have winners! Congratulations to Nick Ambrose who is providing the cover photo, and Jeff Schoner who won for the back cover. The book is now available at Books & Manuals - UTD Online Store - +1 206 321-0870 - sales@utdequipment.com. The UTD Open Water / Rec 1 book is the sixth book in the...
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    3-Day Photo Contest for New UTD Open Water Book Cover

    We are ready to go to print with the new UTD Open Water / Recreational 1 Diver printed book, however we need a cover photo. Photo must depict one or more divers in single tank, backmount, UTD/DIR gear. Must be in open water (no caves, wreck interiors, etc.). We are accepting entries until...
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    UTD and Navigation

    We work on the 'building block' theory of education, so if you take a UTD class and you are missing some fundamental skill (like operating and following a compass) that is needed for the next skill (environmental awareness), we will fill in the gaps and be sure you are properly trained. This...
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