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NARCOTEC TECHNICAL DIVING
Our courses are always taught in blocks of full days and preferably all days combined in the shortest possible time frame. Cave courses are always taught in 1 continuous period. This ensures maximum focus and much faster progress. As we only teach in small groups, this allows for a highly personalised training.
We organise courses according to your timing.
Good buoyancy control, proper trim and descent propulsion techniques are required for all courses. This will be checked upon the start of the course and will determine if you can actually start the course or not.
If you feel your skills are not good enough or need a refresher, than we highly recommend doing the ESSENTIALS course before continuing with any of the other courses.
ESSENTIALS DIVER
In addition to the Advanced EANx course, the ESSENTIALS is a must for those who want to enter the world of technical diving or who want to perfect their recreational or technical diving skills. A very versatile course that can be perfectly personalized to your interests and needs. Also a good refresher course in case your diving skills can use some polishing.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 20 logged dives
- OPEN WATER diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
Locations:
- theory, workshops & landdrills: Narcotec, Ieper
- dives: Duiktank, Zwevegem
Duration:
- total duration: 3 full days
- theory: 4 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 4 h
- dives: 4 dives: spread out over 2 days
Configuration:
- can be done in backmount
or in sidemount (OW sidemount certification needed)
Prices:
- 1 student: 520€ (+VAT)
- 2 or 3 students: 445€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee + certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport
for more information
OPEN WATER SIDEMOUNT DIVER
Learn the specific techniques, gear configuration and the philosophy of diving with a sidemount set. Diving with a sidemount set in open water is very comfortable and offers you, for example, the advantage of being able to dive with 2 tanks without having to carry the full weight of a twin set on your back, both above and under water.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 20 logged dives
- OPEN WATER diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory, workshops & landdrills: Narcotec, Ieper
- dives: Duiktank, Zwevegem & Belgian lakes
Duration:
- total duration: 3 full days
- theory: 4 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 4 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
3 open water dives: spread out over 2 days
Configuration:
- sidemount
Prices:
- 1 student: 520€ (+VAT)
- 2 or 3 students: 445€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee + certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport
for more information
CAVERN DIVER
The CAVERN course develops your skills for safe diving in an overhead environment (eg caves) where the daylight is present at every moment of the dive. Very important here is the development of the sense of responsibility and the right attitude towards solving possible problems when diving in an overhead environment.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 30 logged dives
- ADVANCED OPEN WATER diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory, workshops & landdrills: Narcotec, Ieper
- dives: Duiktank, Zwevegem & Lot (France)
Duration:
- total duration: 3 full days
- theory: 4 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 4 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
4 open water dives: spread out over 2 days
Configuration:
- can be done in backmount
or in sidemount (OW sidemount certification needed)
Prices:
- 2 or 3 students: 520€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee+ certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport, accomodation
REMARK:
- this course is best done in combination with
INTRO TO CAVE COURSE
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COMBO CAVERN - INTRO TO CAVE DIVER
Combing both the cavern diver and intro to cave diver courses allows for faster progress and a more focused and in depth training.
This combo is always taught entirely in the Lot, France.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 30 logged dives
- ADVANCED OPEN WATER diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory & landdrills: Lot (France)
- dives: Lot (France)
Duration:
- total duration: 5 full days
- theory: 8 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 8 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
8 open water dives: spread out over 4 days
Configuration:
- can be done in backmount
or in sidemount (OW sidemount certification needed)
Prices:
- 2 or 3 students: 890€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee+ certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport, accomodation
for more information
ADVANCED EANx DIVER
This course expands your knowledge about nitrox diving and gives you a broader view on the concept, possibilities, and the planning of diving with enriched air. Your diving skills will be further developed and new skills will be taught more specifically the use of deco tanks to qualify you to perform dives to 42m and do planned decompression stops up to 15 min.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 30 logged dives
- DEEP diver & EANx diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory, workshops & landdrills: Narcotec, Ieper
- dives: Duiktank, Zwevegem & Belgian lakes
Duration:
- total duration: 4 full days
- theory: 8 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 4 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
4 open water dives: spread out over 2 days
Configuration:
- can be done in backmount
or in sidemount (OW sidemount certification needed)
Prices:
- 1 student: 670€ (+VAT)
- 2 students: 520€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee + certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport
for more information
TEC OPEN WATER SIDEMOUNT DIVER
Expand your knowledge, skills, gear configuration and mindset required for technical sidemount diving. Learn how to plan and safely execute decompression dives using a deco tank in sidemount configuration.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 20 logged dives
- OPEN WATER SIDEMOUNT diver certified
- ADVANCED EANx diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory, workshops & landdrills: Narcotec, Ieper
- dives: Duiktank, Zwevegem & Belgian lakes
Duration:
- total duration: 3 full days
- theory: 4 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 4 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
4 open water dives: spread out over 2 days
Configuration:
- sidemount
Prices:
- 1 student: 520€ (+VAT)
- 2 students: 445€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee + certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport
for more information
INTRO TO CAVE DIVER
This course offers you the opportunity to dive beyond the daylight zone and deeper into the overhead environment. This gives you a very good idea of what actual cave diving or diving in an overhead environment is.
This course is always taught entirely in the Lot, France.
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Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 30 logged dives
- CAVERN diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory & landdrills: Lot (France)
- dives: Lot (France)
Duration:
- total duration: 3 full days
- theory: 4 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 4 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
4 open water dives: spread out over 2 days
Configuration:
- can be done in backmount
or in sidemount (OW sidemount certification needed)
Prices:
- 2 or 3 students: 520€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee+ certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport, accomodation
REMARK:
- this course is best done in combination with
CAVERN COURSE
FULL CAVE DIVER
The CAVE DIVER course trains you to dive safely in a complete overhead environment.
This course is always taught entirely in the Lot, France.
Prerequisites:
- 15 years
- minimum 30 logged dives
-INTRO TO CAVE diver certified
- diving insurance
- medical exam (max. 1 year old)
- good buoyancy control, trim and propulsion techniques
Locations:
- theory & landdrills: Lot (France)
- dives: Lot (France)
Duration:
- total duration: 5 full days
- theory: 8 h
- gear workshop + landdrills: 8 h
- dives: 1 confined water dive: 4 h
8 open water dives: spread out over 4 days
Configuration:
- can be done in backmount
or in sidemount (OW sidemount certification needed)
Prices:
- 2 or 3 students: 890€ (+VAT)
- 100€ (+VAT) per additional day
- price includes: course fee+ certification
- extra: entrance fees, rental gear, tankfills, transport, accomodation
for more information
Expand your knowledge about technical diving, fine tune your skills and become a more self sufficient, self confident and safer diver. This selection of technical diver programs will definitely open up a new and exciting under water world for you.
We do offer more than only these courses, so if you have specific requests, please contact us with all your questions about training and courses.
There is no substitute for a descent and solid diving course and a continuous training afterwards to keep your skill level up.
This combined with motivation, passion and perseverance will make you truly enjoy your diving, be it pure recreational or hard core technical diving.
You will get out of a course what you put in it yourself.
No pain no gain.