Unified Team Diving
Encyclopedia
Unified Team Diving is a SCUBA diving
training agency founded in 2008 to incorporate DIR
/Hogarthian principles into SCUBA education at all levels.
/Hogarthian diving principles derived originally from the cave diving community. Prior to this, Georgitsis had been teaching many of the same concepts within other organizations, including NAUI and Global Underwater Explorers
(GUE). UTD has the additional goals of solidifying team diving concepts and creating a 'thinking diver'. UTD currently has a presence in Europe, the US and Asia.
Founder and CEO Andrew Georgitsis has a long history in diving, including technical diving
. He was formerly the training director at Global Underwater Explorers
and a founder of Dive Xtras Inc.
team approach to diving. UTD delivers all its educational academic content online with an emphasis on the social nature of its web site and the building of a community of like-minded divers. Its online presence extends to Facebook
, Twitter
and other forums. UTD also allows access to all of its educational materials to instructors from other agencies to assist them in conducting their own courses. It declares itself to be 'inclusive' as opposed to the traditional view of DIR
diving as 'exclusive'. UTD promotes a uniform equipment configuration, uniform methods of dive planning and execution, and uniform skill sets at all training levels.
. European members are currently engaged in various submerged cave explorations including the PIT PROJECT in Mexico.
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....
training agency founded in 2008 to incorporate DIR
Doing It Right
Doing It Right is a holistic approach to scuba diving. According to the DIR approach fundamental skills, teamwork, environmental and situational awareness, and the use of a highly optimized and streamlined equipment configuration are the fundamentals of DIR diving...
/Hogarthian principles into SCUBA education at all levels.
History
Unified Team Diving was formed in 2008 by Andrew Georgitsis and Jeff Seckendorf. Its roots lie in DIRDoing It Right
Doing It Right is a holistic approach to scuba diving. According to the DIR approach fundamental skills, teamwork, environmental and situational awareness, and the use of a highly optimized and streamlined equipment configuration are the fundamentals of DIR diving...
/Hogarthian diving principles derived originally from the cave diving community. Prior to this, Georgitsis had been teaching many of the same concepts within other organizations, including NAUI and Global Underwater Explorers
Global Underwater Explorers
Global Underwater Explorers is a scuba diving organization that provides education within recreational, technical and cave diving. It is a not-for-profit, membership organization, based in High Springs, Florida, United States....
(GUE). UTD has the additional goals of solidifying team diving concepts and creating a 'thinking diver'. UTD currently has a presence in Europe, the US and Asia.
Founder and CEO Andrew Georgitsis has a long history in diving, including technical diving
Technical diving
Technical diving is a form of scuba diving that exceeds the scope of recreational diving...
. He was formerly the training director at Global Underwater Explorers
Global Underwater Explorers
Global Underwater Explorers is a scuba diving organization that provides education within recreational, technical and cave diving. It is a not-for-profit, membership organization, based in High Springs, Florida, United States....
and a founder of Dive Xtras Inc.
Dive Xtras
Dive Xtras is a manufacturer of diver propulsion vehicles or dive scooters in Mukilteo, Washington.- History :Established in 2003 by Ben McGeever and Andrew Georgitsis, they introduced their first DPV in 2005....
Declared Mission/Purpose/Ethos
UTD declares its mission to be the training of divers at all levels, including instructors, in the UTD/ DIRDoing It Right
Doing It Right is a holistic approach to scuba diving. According to the DIR approach fundamental skills, teamwork, environmental and situational awareness, and the use of a highly optimized and streamlined equipment configuration are the fundamentals of DIR diving...
team approach to diving. UTD delivers all its educational academic content online with an emphasis on the social nature of its web site and the building of a community of like-minded divers. Its online presence extends to Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
and other forums. UTD also allows access to all of its educational materials to instructors from other agencies to assist them in conducting their own courses. It declares itself to be 'inclusive' as opposed to the traditional view of DIR
Doing It Right
Doing It Right is a holistic approach to scuba diving. According to the DIR approach fundamental skills, teamwork, environmental and situational awareness, and the use of a highly optimized and streamlined equipment configuration are the fundamentals of DIR diving...
diving as 'exclusive'. UTD promotes a uniform equipment configuration, uniform methods of dive planning and execution, and uniform skill sets at all training levels.
Educational Philosophy
UTD uses a building block approach to education, layering each new topic on top of previous topics both in the classroom and in the water. All of UTD's academic course content is delivered online, there are no printed materials. UTD requires significantly more in-water work than the bulk of other dive training agencies in the granting of certifications.Classes Offered
- Recreational 1
- Recreational 2
- Recreational 3
- Nitrox
- Rescue
- Essentials
- Ratio Deco
- CCRRebreatherA rebreather is a type of breathing set that provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycled exhaled gas. This recycling reduces the volume of breathing gas used, making a rebreather lighter and more compact than an open-circuit breathing set for the same duration in environments where...
Ratio Deco - Intro to Tech
- Tech 1
- Tech 2
- Trimix 1
- Trimix 2
- mCCR 1 and 2
- pSCR 1 and 2
- Scooter/DPV 1
- Scooter /DPV 2
- Overhead Protocols
- CaveCave divingCave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized equipment is used to enable the exploration of caves which are at least partially filled with water. In the United Kingdom it is an extension of the more common sport of caving, and in the United States an extension of the more common...
1 - Cave 2
- Cave 3
- WreckWreck divingWreck diving is a type of recreational diving where shipwrecks are explored. Although most wreck dive sites are at shipwrecks, there is an increasing trend to scuttle retired ships to create artificial reef sites...
1 - Wreck 2
- Wreck 3
Projects
UTD members are actively engaged in numerous 'projects' around the world including the first diver exploration of the German aircraft carrier Graf ZeppelinGerman aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany during World War II and represented part of the Kriegsmarine's attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of...
. European members are currently engaged in various submerged cave explorations including the PIT PROJECT in Mexico.