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TDI · Advanced overhead
Stage Cave
Extend penetration with staged cylinders for longer, deeper cave dives.
Overview
Stage Cave extends your range with staged cylinders, drop and pick-up procedures, gas accounting across multiple cylinders, and the discipline to push penetration safely.
What you'll learn
- Stage rigging and drop/pick-up
- Gas accounting across cylinders
- Extended-penetration planning
- Streamlining for longer dives
What's included
- All academic sessions and instructor time
- TDI digital materials and certification registration
- Use of stage/technical rig and required gas fills
- Open-water training dives in Lake Okanagan
Prerequisites
TDI Full Cave Diver, age 18+.
Configuration matters here. Sidemount or backmount doubles? Take our gear guide for a recommendation, or see the kit list below.
Kit for this course
Recommended gear
The configuration we'd dive for this course, tap any card to drill into products, or shop it as a ready-made bundle. Not sure what suits you? Take the gear guide →
Base configuration
Sidemount
- Dedicated sidemount harness + wing
- Two independent cylinders, regulators and SPGs
- Streamlined hose routing
- Cutting tool and SMB
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Add-onCave / overhead
- Primary canister light + two backups
- Primary and safety reels, spools
- Line arrows and cookies (markers)
- Full redundancy, no direct ascent
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Add-onDecompression / stage
- Decompression / stage cylinder(s) + regulator(s)
- Stage rigging (bolt snaps, bands)
- Cut tables / dive-planning software
- SMB and spool per gas
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Add-onCold-water (dry suit)
- Dry suit + appropriate undergarment
- Dry or wet gloves
- Dedicated dry-suit inflation hose
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