The International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers (IANTD) has been the pioneering organization in technical diving since its inception.  Easily the largest in the field, IANTD’s innovations include being the very first to introduce and promote nitrox to the diving community, the first to certify divers in the use of trimix, and to offer training courses for all major rebreathers.  IANTD leads the way with comprehensive courses in wreck diving, cave and cavern diving, and is now offering Recreational Trimix courses for advanced recreational divers.  A complete line of recreational and leadership courses round out the list with everything from Open Water Diver to Advanced Diver being offered with the highest standards in the industry. You will find IANTD courses to be the complete answer for divers who believe they want and deserve to have the very best training in the world.

IANTD has always held to a much higher standard.  As we say “training can be purchased, but certification has to be earned”. You can be assured your IANTD instructor at Konaquatica has worked hard for years to earn his ratings. In line with this philosophy, comprehensive classroom learnings that are multi-faceted are given, enabling the student to be armed and prepared with all the necessary knowledge, theories, procedures, protocols, and philosophies.  Great stuff, but IANTD courses go far beyond that and are designed to turn out “thinking divers” who are able to utilize the right tools and equipment for all missions and can prepare, plan and dive accordingly.

IANTD holds true to their belief that the best way to turn out a good diver is to spend a lot of time underwater.  It is with bottom time that divers can practice, learn and perfect skills.  Exercises and scenarios are presented to give the student diver realistic...even stress-inducing situations.  We feel you are better served as a diver to have gone through this in your training under our safe supervision, so that when it happens in your future diving you will be prepared for it by having already gone through the same thing multiple times during your IANTD course.  Because in stress situations it’s the most poorly learned or least practiced skills that go first in divers, our goal in your IANTD courses is to repeatedly drill you in skills, until the proper life-saving responses become automatic and are ingrained to the point of muscle memory. 

All this is done with the ultimate goal being turning out the best-prepared and trained divers in the world.  A key emphasis is to do this safely, advancing the diver’s skill sets, knowledge and operational capabilities so they can take all that forward with them and accomplish every one of their future dives safely. IANTD is the future.