Course Overview

Over two days you will lean about the theory, skills and practical methods of carrying out safe staged decompression dives up to 45m deep. The course can run as a stand alone but is usually combined with advanced nitrox or extended range, though options to combine with wreck are also good.

What’s Involved

There will be 4 dives and you will build on diving skills to date. You will learn about dive planning, equipment considerations and develop buoyancy, trim and teamwork skills to safely carry out planned decompression diving.

Course Skills

Buoyancy and trim, propulsion techniques, cylinder and stage set-up and rigging, gas management, thinking like a  technical diver, handling emergencies and failures. Decompresison techniques

Why Do the Course?

This course will suit experienced recreational divers and budding technical divers. It opens up longer and safer deep dives whilst adding additional knowledge and skills to your diving. It prepares you to take further technical training such as extended range or trimix diving.

What’s Included

The course fee covers instructional time, manual, use of facilities including pool. Students are expected to pay any 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

Standard scuba equipment plus a spare mask, timing device, a dsmb, a spool/reel with 30m of line. A backmount twinset or sidemount BCD, we recommend Apeks, Razor and X-Deep systems. These may be rented for the duration of the course.

Prerequisites

Advanced open water or equivalent, minimum of 25 dives, 18 years old

Student to Instructor Ratio

3:1 (maximum)

No. Sessions

3 x theory; practical kit setup session; 4 x open water dives

Equipment

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

Related Courses

Wreck

Advanced Nitrox

Extended Range

TEC 50

Technical rescue and safety