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About Us

International Diving Institute in Charleston, South Carolina is one of the finest commercial diver training facilitites in the US. IDI's hands-on training is conducted in IDI's Wet Tank Triplex and the open water of the Cooper River. The training complex resides at the Old navy Base in Charleston, SC an area known to diver's for decades. Today's diving industry calls for life-long training.

Many people change careers two or three times in a lifetime. Commercial diving can provide a career with endless growth potential while engaging in a vast array of opportunities. In just a few months you can be on your way to this highly respected career. Whether you plan to do underwater burning or underwater welding, IDI can offer you the appropriate courses through IDI's top quality commercial diving school. 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 YD (yards and docks) crane barge,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. Students can take courses relating to SCUBA instruction (from basicopen-water diver to instructor level) and air/mixed gas surface supplied diving (commercial applications).