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International Diving Institute (IDI) is a member of Association of Diving Contractors International (ADC) and trains to the Standards published by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the National Association of SCUBA Educators (NASE), and the Sea Research Society (SRS). Each IDI elective course (advanced program or certification) that a diver takes increases the diver's overall effectiveness and thus his worth to his employer and should result in higher pay. Each elective should not only be thought of as an investment in a diver's financial future, but also an investment in the diver's personal safety and enjoyment of his work in the field of commercial diving. Whether you dive in the deep sea or in hazardous waste, the respect you get is real. |
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Real-world projects, pressures and deadlines are used to help
acquire the high demand skills for commercial diving. IDI's curriculum provides both entry level
and advanced diver training.
IDI's facility is designed as a safe, yet realistic, open water work-site environment located on the old navy base in Charleston, South Carolina. IDI has on-site access to an ex-Navy, submarine, floating dry-dock for training purposes. IDI's students not only gain technical skills, but also develop the professional qualities that are attractive to employers of commercial divers. IDI houses Sea Research Society's library at its corporate office. That library includes thousands of books, magazines, maps and charts. It also includes tens of thousands of prints, photographs and slides relating to sport and commercial divers and a wide range of dive related work. Students can read about and research everything from sunken treasure to the evolution of diving gear.
International Diving Institute (IDI) is a state licensed commercial diving school offering classroom instruction, in-water training and certification for commercial divers. IDI has two 54" hyperbaric chambers (for recompression and decompression), one of which is fitted out for saturation diving (i.e. a dive bell can be attached to it). The other, built in the United Kingdom (UK), was certified by Lloyd's in 2004. IDI has a wide variety of equipment by manufacturers and designers such as Desco, Gorsky, Klein, Miller Dunn, and Kirby Morgan. Our main campus and dive site is located on the Cooper River less than one block from the H.L. Hunley submarine conservation lab and only minutes from the heart of historic Charleston's tourist center. The Hunley was the first submarine in the entire history of the world to sink an enemy ship. The wreck of the Hunley was discovered in 1970 by shipwreck expert Dr. E. Lee Spence. However, in 1995, shortly after Dr. Spence published his book, Treasures of the Confederate Coast the Real Rhett Butler & Other Revelations, with a map showing the Hunley's correct location, a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler went to the Hunley site and, allegedly without following standard archaeological procedures for a wreck of significant historical importance, uncovered portions of the wreck to take pictures of it. Cussler then announced that NUMA had discovered the wreck but lied about the location. About five months later, at the official request of the South Carolina Hunley Commission, Dr. Spence, donated his rights to the wreck of the Hunley to the State. Dr. Spence is one of the owners of the International Diving Institute.
Divers can purchase or rent most types of sport (scuba) and commercial dive equipment through IDI's retail dive facility, located at their corporate headquarters in Summerville, South Carolina. Why train in weather that is either too cold or too hot? Be like the millions of tourists who visit Charleston every year, come and enjoy South Carolina's coastal climate, sand beaches and fine dining.
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SRS Dr. E. Lee Spence's Sworn Affidavit on his discovery of the Civil War submarine
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