• More Flexible Scheduling – I am now available to teach classes on weekdays for people who can’t make weekend classes. In fact, I prefer to teach during the week when the quarry is less crowded. We can do your class on consecutive days and complete it in one go, or break it up into several meetings.
• No Price Increase for 2026 – It seems like prices for everything are up. I’m trying to keep dive training as affordable as possible, so I’m not raising rates this year.
• No Class Minimum Size – I will teach your class even if you are the only one that signs up. I want you to get the training you want and be able to get out there and dive.
• It’s not new, but remember I offer free consultation. I love talking about diving and helping people choose their path forward in diving. I won’t talk you into a class you don’t want or need, just to make a few bucks. We can talk and I’ll explain your options and make some suggestions, but it’s your decision to take classes or not. I’m not a high pressure kind of guy.

I offer technical diving courses on both Open Circuit Scuba and Closed-Circuit Rebreathers

• PRISM 2 Air Diluent Diver (CCR)
• PRISM 2 Air Diluent Decompression Diver (CCR)
• PRISM 2 Helitrox Decompression Diver (CCR)
• Advanced Nitrox Diver (Open Circuit)
• Decompression Procedures (Open Circuit)
• Helitrox Diver (Open Circuit)
• Trimix Diver (Open Circuit)

I teach several cylinder (don’t call them “tanks”) maintenance courses through Professional Scuba Inspectors-Professional Cylinder Inspectors (PSI-PCI). Classes are available to dive centers or individuals. PSI-PCI courses meet federal requirements for dive centers to provide staff with function-specific training.

• Visual Cylinder Inspection
• Valve Repair Technician
• Oxygen Cylinder Cleaning Technician

I also organize wreck diving trips to many areas around the Great Lakes.

• Whitefish Point (Lake Superior)
• Straits of Mackinac
• Presque Isle, MI (Lake Huron)
• Port Austin, MI (Lake Huron)
• Sheybogan/Two Rivers/Sturgeon Bay, WI (Lake Michigan)
• and more!

Great Lakes Tech Diving. It’s what I do. It’s what I teach. The Great Lakes contain some of the best shipwrecks in the world. The water in the Great Lakes is fresh and cold, perfect for preserving shipwrecks rather than destroying them. You can visit wooden sailing ships that have been on the bottom for 100 years that are still intact with the masts still standing. Many of these wrecks are beyond sport diving limits and require training in decompression diving and mixed gas diving.

My name is Rick Kruzel and I offer technical diver training tailored for the Great Lakes environment.  If you want to dive the Great Lakes, your training should reflect that. I have been teaching technical diving courses for over 20 years in the Great Lakes. If you want to dive the deep wrecks of the Great Lakes, I can help you achieve it!