Technical Diving
Bespoke Training Built Around You
Not a course catalogue. A journey of improvement. You get better first. The certification follows.
Talk to Instructor GodfreyMost technical diving courses are sold as a product. You pay, you complete the requirements, you get a card. The card is real but it does not always reflect what is actually in the water with you when things get complicated.
The way technical training works here is different. The card is not the point. Making you a genuinely good, safe, controlled diver is the point. Whatever certification comes out of the training is a record of skills you actually have - not a target you worked backwards from.
Instructor Godfrey has been doing this for over twenty years. He is a Course Director with a background that includes instructor training with RAID International. He has dived these waters thousands of times. When you train with him, you train with someone who has seen what happens when the foundations are solid and what happens when they are not. His approach comes from that experience, not from a manual.
The Person Behind the Training
Instructor Godfrey trains five days a week. On Saturday mornings he runs an outdoor group workout for men at a gym in Ayia Napa. Once a week he guides the RESET ocean and breath experience - a meditation and breathwork session by the sea for people who need to slow down and decompress from the pace of daily life.
He talks about balance a lot. Not as a concept but as something he actually practises - between physical training and recovery, between work and family, between the intensity of technical diving and the stillness of breath and water. That balance is visible in how he teaches. There is no ego in the water with him. No pressure to perform. No rushing you past the stage you are actually at.
Aquatic safety is the thread that runs through everything he does - the diving instruction, the lifeguard training, the first aid courses, the breathwork by the sea. He teaches people to be calm, controlled, and competent in and around water. That is the work.
Technical Diving
20+ years. Course Director level. RAID International background. Wreck, decompression, stage and twinset training built around each individual diver.
Aquatic Safety
SSI Lifeguard Instructor, React Right First Aid, and over two decades of training people to be safe in and around the water professionally.
Physical Training
Trains five days per week. Runs a weekly outdoor workout group for men. Physical readiness and personal discipline are part of how he approaches everything he teaches.
Breath and Meditation
Guides the weekly RESET ocean and breathwork session. Calm, presence and nervous system awareness inform how he teaches - in the water and out of it.
The First Conversation Is in the Water
Before any training begins, every diver does a check dive with Instructor Godfrey. He keeps it straightforward - let's see what control and skills you have right now. Fin kicks, task loading, how you move when something is added to your workload. Not a pass or fail. Just an honest picture of where you are starting from.
From that dive, the conversation about direction becomes real. Some people are ready to go straight into working with a stage. Some need to spend time on buoyancy and trim first. Some arrive wanting twinsets and leave having agreed that a single cylinder with a stage is the smarter progression for where they are right now. The check dive makes all of that clear before any course money is spent.
The training that follows is built around what that assessment shows - which direction makes sense, which equipment configuration fits the diver, what the realistic timeline looks like. It is a personal programme, not a schedule pulled from a training manual.
Enriched Air Nitrox
Nitrox is the starting point for anyone moving toward extended range diving. It extends your no-decompression limits at depth and is the gas mix used on most of the semi-technical dives run here - including the Zenobia.
Understanding your gas, planning your dives around it, and knowing your oxygen exposure limits is not optional once you start pushing past recreational limits. This is where that understanding is built.
Prerequisite: Open Water Diver. Theory, gas analysis, and practical dive planning. Certification: SSI Enriched Air Nitrox.
What You Will Learn
- Nitrox physics and physiology
- Oxygen exposure limits and tracking
- Gas analysis and cylinder marking
- NDL extension and dive planning
- Computer setup for nitrox mixes
- Blend verification procedures
XR Foundations - Stage, Twinset and Technical Skills
This is where the technical pathway properly begins. The focus is almost entirely in-water - buoyancy, trim, propulsion, valve drills, gas management basics. The skills that everything else depends on. All of it repeated until it is automatic rather than effortful.
For most divers, Instructor Godfrey will start with a single cylinder and a stage rather than going straight to a twinset. The stage introduces the gas management habit, the switching procedure, and the redundancy mindset without the full weight and complexity of a twin set. It is a more honest progression for most divers coming from recreational backgrounds.
The twinset comes when it makes sense for the individual - when the stage work is solid and the diver has the time to train it properly. Not before. A twinset is not an upgrade. It is a different piece of equipment with its own demands and it needs to be earned.
Prerequisite: Open Water Diver, 24 logged dives. Certification: SSI XR Foundations.
What You Will Learn
- Equipment configuration and setup
- Buoyancy and trim in technical gear
- Propulsion techniques and task loading
- Stage cylinder use and gas switching
- Valve shutdown drills
- Gas management fundamentals
Wreck Diver
The Zenobia is a 180-metre cargo ferry sitting at 18 to 42 metres off Larnaca. It is 45 minutes from the base and one of the most famous wreck dives in the world. Wreck training here is not done in a pool or on a shallow reef - it is done on real structures in real conditions.
The Wreck Diver course covers the fundamentals of safe wreck diving - penetration limits, guideline use, hazard management, finning technique in silty environments, and how to navigate inside an overhead space. You finish it ready to dive wrecks properly and safely, with a certification that reflects skills you have actually demonstrated.
Prerequisite: Advanced Open Water Diver. Training conducted on real wreck structures. Certification: SSI Wreck Diver.
What You Will Learn
- Wreck dive planning and site assessment
- Hazard recognition and management
- Safe penetration limits and guidelines
- Reel handling and line laying
- Finning techniques in silty environments
- Emergency procedures inside wrecks
Advanced Wreck Diver
The Advanced Wreck course is about exploring wrecks properly - going beyond the light zone, deeper into complex structures, with the skills and equipment to manage what you find there. It takes real training dives, not just theory, to reach the standard this certification requires.
Before starting this course, a diver needs to be genuinely comfortable with a stage cylinder and reels. The equipment adds workload inside an overhead environment and if the handling is not already automatic, it becomes a problem. Instructor Godfrey will assess this honestly before the course begins. If a student can also handle a twinset it helps, but the baseline requirement is solid stage work and good light handling.
The Zenobia is large enough to generate real decompression obligations on a thorough penetration dive. Students working on this course and moving toward deco certification can use it as a combined training environment - a 50% nitrox stage to accelerate deco, a conservative profile, and two dives rather than one long push. Two dives done properly are worth more than one ambitious one.
Prerequisite: SSI Wreck Diver or equivalent, comfortable stage use, reel and light experience. Certification: SSI Advanced Wreck Diver.
What You Will Learn
- Advanced penetration planning and gas management
- Multi-reel navigation and complex line protocols
- Stage cylinder use inside overhead environments
- Primary and backup light management
- Lost line and lost diver procedures
- Zero visibility navigation and emergency response
Decompression Diving
The decompression course is the formal step beyond no-decompression recreational diving. You plan dives with mandatory stops, manage accelerated decompression gas in a stage cylinder, and handle the problems that can occur when you have a ceiling above you.
The profiles here are semi-technical - a few minutes of deco, planned conservatively, with the gas to back it up properly. This is not about logging deep dives or chasing decompression time. It is about learning to manage the obligation safely and efficiently on the kind of dives you will actually want to do - the Zenobia, the wrecks off Cyprus, dives with real bottom time and real structure.
Instructor Godfrey teaches ratio decompression alongside computer-based planning. If the computer fails at 40 metres with deco showing, you need a method that works without it. Ratio deco is that method - conservative, reliable, based on physics rather than batteries. Both tools together, not one instead of the other.
Maximum depth: 45 metres. Prerequisite: Advanced Open Water Diver, Nitrox certified, 50+ logged dives. Certification: SSI Extended Range Diver.
What You Will Learn
- Decompression theory and physiology
- Ratio decompression planning and execution
- Computer-based dive planning
- Accelerated decompression gas use
- Stage and drop tank management
- Emergency decompression procedures
Drysuit Diving
Cyprus is warm water so a drysuit course here is for people with a specific reason - local professionals who need the certification, or divers heading to colder destinations. Northern Europe, the UK, the Red Sea in winter.
Instructor Godfrey is a certified drysuit instructor. If you need this, get in touch and we will work out the timing around your other training or work schedule.
Prerequisite: Open Water Diver. Certification: SSI Dry Suit Diver.
What You Will Learn
- Drysuit types and equipment selection
- Buoyancy management in a drysuit
- Inflation and exhaust valve control
- Entry, exit and surface procedures
- Equipment failure management
- Cold water diving considerations
How We Dive Here
Open circuit. Always. The reason is not tradition - it is reliability. Open circuit equipment has well understood failure modes and the redundancy is built into the configuration in a way you can see, check, and manage. There is nothing hidden in electronics that you cannot diagnose in the water.
On a typical technical dive, you will see a bottom timer and a stopwatch alongside a modern dive computer. Ratio decompression - calculating your ascent from time and depth ratios without relying on a computer algorithm - is a conservative method that works with physics. Instructor Godfrey uses it himself and teaches it to every student. If the computer dies at depth with deco showing, you finish the ascent correctly. That is not optional knowledge.
Gas planning happens before the dive. Stage cylinders are the primary redundancy, not a backup thought. On longer Zenobia dives, a drop tank at depth for accelerated deco when the profile calls for it. Every piece of equipment has a reason for being there. Nothing is carried to look technical.
Maximum working depth is 45 metres. That is enough for the Zenobia, the Liberty wreck, and every decompression training dive run here. Going deeper does not improve the training. It increases the risk without adding value. 45 metres is where the interesting diving happens in Cyprus and it is where the focus stays.
Who Trains Here
Advanced Open Water Divers Ready to Go Further
The most common starting point. You have your certification, some dives in the log, and you want to know what is beyond recreational limits. The check dive happens first and the programme is built from there.
Divers Who Want to Dive the Zenobia Properly
A legitimate and specific goal. The Zenobia rewards divers who can manage their gas, their time and their penetration. If that is where you want to get to, a clear pathway exists to get you there.
Professionals Adding Technical Qualifications
Divemasters and instructors expanding into wreck, decompression or extended range training. The programme is built around your existing skills, not from zero.
Experienced Divers Without the Formal Certification
Some divers have been doing semi-technical dives for years without the formal paperwork. The check dive establishes what you actually have. If the skills are there, the courses move fast.
Common Questions
Do I need to know what certification I want before I contact you?
No. Most people do not. The check dive and the conversation around it are what determine the direction. Come with a general idea of where you want to get to and Instructor Godfrey will work out the pathway with you honestly.
What is the check dive?
A mandatory assessment before any technical training starts. Fin kicks, task loading, in-water control under real conditions. Not a test with a pass or fail - an honest look at where you are starting from so the training is built correctly from that point.
Will I definitely end up on a twinset?
Not necessarily and not automatically. A single cylinder with a stage is a capable and sensible technical configuration for many divers and many dives. The twinset is introduced when it is the right tool for the direction the training is going - not as a default step on the way to a certification.
What is ratio decompression?
A method of planning and executing your ascent based on time and depth ratios, independent of a computer. Instructor Godfrey teaches it alongside computer-based planning so you have a reliable, conservative method available if your computer fails mid-dive. It works with physics. It does not need batteries.
Do I need my own equipment to start?
Not for the early stages. Equipment is available for training. As the pathway develops you will want to invest in your own configuration. Advice on what makes sense and when is part of the training.
How deep does the training go?
45 metres maximum. That covers the Zenobia fully, the Liberty and Nemesis wrecks, and all the decompression training offered here. It is enough to do serious technical diving in Cyprus without chasing depth for its own sake.
Start With a Conversation
Tell Instructor Godfrey where you are in your diving and where you want to get to. He will be straight with you about what the pathway looks like and whether the timing makes sense.
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