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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

First place for UDC Tec Team in Lionfish Derby


The UDC Tec Team with team captain and spear legend Mikey Moses obtained the 1st place for teams at the Utila First Lionfish Derby. The team performed two decompression dives to 130 ft on EANx28 for 30 min using 100% O2 for accelerated deecompression killing and catching more than 60 individuals of the invasive species. The dive site was an off shore fishing bank available by GPS only for tec divers and used regularly for Tec Diving courses at Utila Dive Centre.

Training for Tec Diving Instructors

In the last month of april many Tec divers obtained their qualification as Tec Instructor and Trimix Instructor at Utila Dive Centre. The extensive resources capacity of this dive center made possible to run Tec and Trimix courses simultaneously with boats like the one shown in the picture with up to seven full equiped tec divers. Congratulations to all the candidates trained by Tec Instructor Trainer Andy Phillips and Tec Trimix Instructor Guillermo Peirano:


Gordon Meeks Tec Instructor

Shawn Widersky, Jon Kieren and Dave Craddock Tec Trimix Instructors

Training at the moment for Tec Instructor:

Simon Livingston, Mikey Moses and Mary Peter