Jeffrey Glenn - An introduction to Tech Diving - S02 E15

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Jeffrey is a dive industry titan specialising in all areas of technical, cave and rebreather diving. He’s logged more than 20 years experience at the pointy end of diver and instructor development, and is also the owner of GoPro Asia and Bans Technical Diving, based on Koh Tao, Thailand.

His qualifications include multi-agency accreditations, such as a PADI Course Director and Technical Instructor Trainer, TDI/SDI Course Director, Instructor Trainer for RAID International (which is the world’s fastest growing and most dynamic dive agency), Raid Cave 2 Instructor, TDI Full Cave Instructor, and Advanced Trimix Instructor Trainer for all 3 agencies.

Jeff is also an instructor for the world’s 3 leading exploration rebreathers: the JJCCR, the XCCR and the SF2. He’s certified well over 1000 divers in technical, rebreather and cave diving as well as countless technical diving instructors at all levels of their diver training.

Jeff is a member of international dive teams assembled for scientific research and exploration objectives. Two of these currently include Major Projects Foundations led by Dr Matt Carter as well as Bottomline Projects, led by close friend and trusted dive buddy, Mikko Paasi.

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1. Intro to Jeffrey Glenn (00:00:00)

2. Course Director to Technical diving Instructor Trainer (00:03:20)

3. How to get into tech (00:07:20)

4. HMS Olympus, Malta (00:10:50)

5. Benefits to technical diving (00:13:00)

6. Intro to tech course content (00:16:28)

7. Mastery of skills - Next level! (00:18:34)

8. Intimate training - The way ahead (00:22:08)

9. To double or to side mount... (00:26:10)

10. What's your end goal - what do you require from tech? (00:28:28)

11. Why go so deep, what's the point? (00:30:48)

12. What comes after extended range? (00:39:10)

13. Rebreathers (00:40:25)

14. Advantages of rebreathers (00:46:30)

15. Will Goodman's 300m dive - Deep support (00:49:17)

16. Shearwater computers (00:51:47)

17. Fins - the right model for the job (00:53:25)

18. Up and coming expeditions (00:55:30)

19. Wrap up and OzTec... (01:11:18)