Already teaching technical diving with another agency? Cross over to TDI and teach to the level you already hold. Open to instructors from all the major agencies — and never just a paperwork exercise. Three days in Malta with a TDI Instructor Trainer, learning to teach the TDI way.
If you're already a technical diving instructor with another agency, a TDI crossover lets you teach the TDI curriculum to the level you already hold. TDI accepts professional crossovers from all the major training agencies — your new TDI ratings are matched to your existing qualifications, so you carry across the teaching credentials you've already earned rather than starting again. If you've got questions about how your specific ratings translate, get in touch and we'll work it out.
But here's the part that matters to me: a crossover with me is never just a signature and a fee. I love the team feeling of running technical courses properly, and a crossover is the perfect chance to share how I do it. Over two to three days in Malta we run a classroom session, a water session, and we go diving together — instructor to instructor.
You'll see how I brief and debrief a dive, how I use video as a teaching tool, and how I run a course as a team rather than a checklist. Yes, you leave certified to teach TDI. But you also leave with a sharper, more considered approach to teaching technical diving — which is really the whole point.
The academic side of any TDI crossover runs through the ITI Professional Familiarization Program — International Training being the parent company of TDI. It's a three-step process, and you only complete the familiarization once, even if you later cross over to more than one of the International Training agencies:
That's the official requirement — and I could finalise it with you in an afternoon. But that's not the crossover I want to offer. With me, finalising your rating is wrapped into two to three days of actually diving and teaching together:
You leave with your paperwork submitted and your TDI rating on the way — and a sharper approach to teaching technical diving than when you arrived.
I welcome crossovers from all the major agencies — if you're not sure whether your particular ratings qualify, just ask. The first conversation is free, there's no pressure, and it's the quickest way to find out exactly where you'd stand and what you'd be able to teach as a TDI instructor.
Plenty of crossovers are done on paper, remotely, in an afternoon. Mine isn't — and that's deliberate. As a TDI Instructor Trainer who's actively teaching technical courses in Malta, I'd rather spend the time getting in the water with you, showing you how I run things, and sending you off as a genuinely better instructor than when you arrived. Malta's clear water, varied wrecks and year-round season make it the ideal place to do exactly that.