why utd?
CHALLENGING BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
DISCERNING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Y
ears ago, when we started UTD, we were known as the agency where it was almost impossible
to succeed. IDC’s were complex affairs, with most instructor candidates returning two or three times
before finally being signed off to teach.
Now, almost a decade later, we still get calls from people who are
interested in becoming UTD instructors and UTD students, but are
concerned that the bar is too high, that they won’t have the skills
to finish, and that they can go to any other agency to receive some
training and a c-card and start diving or teaching to their new level.
uniFieD team DiVing:
Challenging,
but not impossible
We went through a period where we started believing these phone
calls. We looked at relaxing standards, trying new programs to
reduce the barriers to entry...basically trying to become more main
stream.
But that did not support our ethos of teaching the way we dive and
giving people the skills to be the safest, best trained divers on the
planet.
Our path is set. We are not main stream and never will be. We are
the place to come if you want a to challenge yourself as a diver or
as an instructor.
DisCerning,
but not exClusiVe
Recreational and Technical Dive Training
www.utdscubadiving.com
INSTRUCTORS WANTED
As an instructor candidate, we will teach you to teach – you will
learn to create common ground with your students, use building block techniques to guide your stu-
dents to success, and take them though an organized program of learning – rote, then understanding,
then application, then finally correlation. Our IDC’s are not diving classes, they are teaching classes.
We expect you to come to the IDC with the requisite skills needed to pass the class. In the IDC we
show you how we teach each skill, how to guide your students to safety and success.
As a student you will be challenged. But success is obtainable. No one in a UTD class is ever set up
for failure – all students are set up for success. One of the keys is to understand that we can’t teach you