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Cave Decompression in the United States: 5 dive centres on TecDiveTools, with agencies, courses taught and a summary of what students say. 2 publish course prices.
TecDiveTools lists 5 dive centres teaching Cave Decompression in the United States. 2 of them publish course prices, in the currency the shop advertises and with the date each was checked — not converted, and not estimated.
Listings are ordered by how much evidence exists about their technical diving, not by a star rating, with any paid Featured listing shown first and marked as such (how rankings work). 5 of these 5 carry reviews we have read and classified as being about technical or overhead training. The count excludes recreational certifications by name, so a busy resort does not outrank a one-instructor cave operation on the volume of its reef trips. Separately, 5 have at least one instructor whose reviews we have read and summarised — a dive centre carries no synthesis of its own. How we read and count reviews.
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About the course
Combines cave diving with staged decompression, running mandatory decompression obligations while navigating a cave system. Teaches gas planning, stage management, and contingency thinking when both cave overhead constraints and decompression stops limit ascent simultaneously. For cave divers with decompression experience seeking to combine both skills.
Combines Full Cave and Decompression Procedures course standards. Requirements: cave navigation skills at depth, mandatory stop execution while managing cave environment, stage cylinder management in overhead, emergency procedures with limited ascent options, multi-level decompression gas switching
The centres listed above teach TDI Cave Decompression in United States. Requirements are set by the agency, not the centre, so they are the same wherever you train — what differs is price, class size and how much diving is included.
5 dive centres on TecDiveTools teach TDI Cave Decompression in the United States. Each is listed above.
Florida's springs are the other classic cave-training ground besides Mexico, and the conditions are the difference: strong outflow in many systems, water around 22°C (72°F) all year and sometimes tannic, lower visibility. You learn to manage flow, gas and line in harder conditions, and divers who train here often find Mexican caves easy by comparison.
At the same tier in TecDiveTools' cross-agency comparison, dive centres in the United States also teach IANTD Technical Cave Diver (6). They are comparable rather than interchangeable — each agency sets its own standards and card, so check which one your next course accepts.