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@SOUTH WEST TECHNICAL DIVING

SSI HYPOXIC TRIMIX

Course Overview

Over five days and a minimum of seven dives with 420 minute of bottom time you will learn about the theory, skills and practical methods of carrying out safe staged decompression dives, using up to 20% Helium and no less than 21% Oxygen in your diluent gas in dives up to 45m deep.

What’s Involved

There will be at least 7 dives and you will build on diving skills and knowledge to date. You will learn about dive planning, equipment considerations and develop buoyancy, trim and teamwork skills to safely carry out planned decompression diving using helium to reduce narcosis and enhance dive pleasure and safety.

Course Skills

Buoyancy and trim, propulsion techniques, loop

control, stage set-up and rigging, gas management,

thinking like a ccr diver, handling emergencies and

failures. Setup and maintenance of the unit

Loop volume management, Calibration of electronics

Emergency procedures, buoyancy control,

CNS tracking, Decompression planning

Why Do the Course?

This course will suit CCR divers who want the benefits of a clear head and recued gas density on deeper and longer dives. It opens up longer and safer deep dives whilst adding additional knowledge and skills to your CCR diving. It prepares you to take further technical training such as trimix diving or overhead courses such as cave or advanced wreck.

What’s Included

The course fee covers instructional time, manual, use of facilities including pool. Students are expected to pay any gas, boat costs and accomodation costs required to complete the course but we do have packages available. Only after the successful completion of the course do you pay your certification fee – “you pay for training – you earn the certification”

What You Need

Normal dive kit plus a CCR with trimix unlocked with cells in date and kept properly serviced and maintained.

Prerequisites

Be a minimum age of 18 years

Hold a certification of TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures Diver or equivalent

have a minimum of 50 logged open water dives

OR

hold a TDI Air Diluent CCR Diver certification or equivalent

have a minimum of 30 hours on the CCR unit with 6 months CCR diving experience

Student to Instructor Ratio

3:1 (maximum)

No. Sessions

2 x theory; practical kit setup session; 7 x open water dives

Equipment

On joining we will send you a kit list, full kit can be rented for the course

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Advanced Wreck

Normoxic Trimix

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