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DPV Cave Instructors Worldwide
DPV Cave in worldwide: 58 instructors on TecDiveTools, with the agencies and courses each teaches, and a summary of what students say.
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DPV Cave in worldwide: 58 instructors on TecDiveTools, with the agencies and courses each teaches, and a summary of what students say.
TecDiveTools lists 58 instructors teaching DPV Cave worldwide.
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). 38 of these 58 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, 34 have a written synthesis of what reviewers say about them. How we read and count reviews.
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About the course
DPV Cave covers safe use of a diver propulsion vehicle (scooter) inside a cave system: planning around the reduced gas reserves that increased range creates, scooter-specific emergency procedures, and team scootering technique in an overhead environment. It's for certified cave divers who want to extend their range well beyond what finning allows, for exploration or long-line cave dives. It requires real cave experience first — TDI wants divers comfortable in the cave environment before adding a scooter to the mix. It's taught with the diver's own scooter inside a cave system, over 3 dives of at least 90 minutes each, and it's a natural pairing with Stage Cave Diver for divers pushing into deep cave systems. No fixed depth — cave dives are limited by gas planning and distance from the exit rather than a stated maximum depth.
58 instructors on TecDiveTools teach TDI DPV Cave worldwide: Mexico (28), United States (24), Thailand (3), Philippines (2) and Malta (1). Each is listed above.
One centre in the TecDiveTools directory publishes a whole-course price for TDI DPV Cave worldwide: Deep Dark Diving, at $1,100. 4 centres charge by the day instead, which is not comparable with a course total. Prices differ mainly in what they include, so compare the inclusions before comparing the numbers. Prices were last checked in September 2026.
Between 3 and 6 days, based on the durations 5 centres publish for it worldwide. The time depends on the centre's schedule, weather, and how quickly the required skills are demonstrated — agencies set a minimum number of dives, not a fixed number of days.
At the same tier in TecDiveTools' cross-agency comparison, instructors worldwide also teach IANTD Adv. Cave - DPV Diver (31) and NSS-CDS DPV Cave Diver (2). They are comparable rather than interchangeable — each agency sets its own standards and card, so check which one your next course accepts.
