UTD

概述

Founded in 2009, Unified Team Diving (UTD) is both a SCUBA diving training agency and equipment manufacturer that incorporates DIR/Hogarthian principles into its training and manufacturing, and provides them with up-to-date teaching methodologies and high standards, not to mention a community for like-minded DIR/Hogarthian divers.

Doing It Right (DIR) is a holistic approach to scuba diving, encompassing essential diving elements like skills, fitness, teamwork, and the use of streamlines and minimalistic equipment configurations. With DIR, safety is improved through standardizing equipment configuration and dive-team procedures that prevent and deal with emergencies.

DIR principles were derived originally from the cave diving community, with the objective of conducting high-risk environment dives, including deep, long duration and exploration of previously unknown parts of a very large cave system.

More specifically, DIR evolved from the Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) in the mid-1990s, a cave diving research project intended to map the underwater cave systems underlying the Woodville Karst Plain, a 450-square-mile (1,200 km2) area that runs from Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico. Much like the Woodville Karst Plain Project, UTD focuses on the fundamentals of exactly how advanced diving for deep cave penetration should be carried out, and how equipment should be selected and configured for this type of diving.

The roots of Unified Team Diving's philosophy and principles can be found in the Hogarthian/DIR equipment configuration and its covenants. Hogarthian was a minimalist approach to a gear configuration in the early 1990s but those that adhered to it, still kept a diving ideology of "each diver" or a “thinking diver”, who should configure their own way.

UTD通过生产签名系列设备来支持其潜水理念，该设备使潜水员能够实施“混合团队”潜水概念，但也创造了“思维潜水员”。1zplay此外，UTD具有巩固团队潜水概念的目标，并促进了统一的设备配置，潜水计划和执行的统一方法以及在所有训练水平上的统一技能。1zplay

与其他大部分潜水培训机构授予认证相比，UTD需要更多的水内工作。1zplay

UTD目前在全球范围内拥有包括欧洲，美国，墨西哥，俄罗斯，南美，非洲，澳大利亚以及包括中国在内的整个亚太地区。