Trimix and Extended Range

Intro to Tech Diving

The Intro to Tech Course is an introductory course that expands on recreational training by improving dive planning methods, in-water skills, and streamlining existing gear configurations in a controlled and fun learning environment.

Are you a certified open water scuba diver wanting to expand your diver knowledge or considering technical diver training, or already a certified technical diver but seeking a refresher? This course is for you! This intro to tech diving course is designed to provide instruction for In-depth dive planning, advanced buoyancy control, gas management, situational awareness, proper trim, gear configuration and selection.

What’s in it for you:

• Exposure to in-depth dive planning, introduction to more advanced technical diving and equipment
• Opportunity to become a more proficient diver and expand on diver skills and knowledge

Advanced Nitrox Diver

Are you looking to expand your dive time? Maybe you’re a scientific diver or photographer looking to stay in the water a little longer? The Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 percent within your current certification level to a maximum depth of 40 meters/130 feet during dives that do not require staged decompression. Often taught in conjunction with the Decompression Procedures course, this can be considered the foundation of your technical diving career. Advanced Nitrox is also a must for SCR or CCR divers.

What’s in it for you?

Ability to dive using EAN 21 through 100 percent oxygen provided:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training

Ability to enroll in Decompression Procedures, Semi-closed Rebreather courses, Closed Circuit rebreather courses

Decompression Procedures Diver

Are you finding your no- decompression limits (NDLs) a limiting factor to dives? Do you have to ascend sooner than you would like? As sport divers, planned decompression is not something that we do or have been taught. The Decompression Procedures Course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 45 meters/150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal sport diving limits. The Decompression Procedures Course combined with the Advanced Nitrox course form the foundation of all other technical courses. After these two courses and some additional experience, the stage has been set for you to move onto additional technical levels.

What’s in it for you?

• Ability to conduct decompression diving activities without direct supervision provided:
• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training

Ability to enroll in Advanced Nitrox, Extended Range, Advanced Wreck, Trimix courses

Helitrox Diver

The Helitrox Diver Course examines the theory, methods, and procedures for planning staged decompression dives utilizing helium in the breathing mixture to reduce the effects of inert gas narcosis.

The Helitrox Diver Course trains divers how to plan and conduct staged decompression dives to a maximum depth of 45 meters/150 feet. The most common equipment requirements, gear set-up, and decompression techniques are also presented during this course. Students are permitted to utilize enriched air nitrox and helium mixes with no greater than 35% helium content, and up to 100% oxygen for decompression diving.

This program is designed as a stand-alone course, or it may be taught in conjunction with Advanced Nitrox at the discretion of the instructor.

What’s in it for you?

Ability to conduct decompression diving activities without direct supervision utilizing helium and/or nitrox mixtures provided:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training
• Breathing mixtures do not contain more than 35% helium or less than 21% oxygen

Ability to enroll in Extended Range, Advanced Wreck, Trimix courses

Trimix Diver

Are you looking to expand your depth range? Do you want to reduce narcosis during deep dives? The Trimix Diver Course could be your next step! As your motivation to explore progresses, you will find that you may want to go deeper to dive that wreck that is part of history or that cave system that you have read so much about. One of the major limiting factors of going deeper is narcosis; our Trimix Diver course shows how to minimize the effects of narcosis by adding helium to offset the nitrogen in your breathing gas. While taking the Trimix Diver course your we will teach you how to plan and execute dives utilizing as little as 18 percent oxygen and diving to maximum depth of 60 meters/200 feet with a blend of helium appropriate for the planned depth.

What’s in it for you?

Ability to conduct technical diving activities using custom trimix mixtures without direct supervision provided:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training

Ability to enroll in Advanced Wreck and Advanced Trimix courses

Advanced Trimix Diver

The Advanced Trimix Diver Course is the top level of training for open circuit divers wishing to dive to depths as deep as 100 meters/330 feet utilizing hypoxic levels of oxygen (below 17 percent). This course is perhaps one of the most informative and challenging of all of our open circuit courses. Upon completion, you will be among some of the most elite divers, capable of doing and seeing more while diving than any other divers out there.

What’s in it for you?

Ability to conduct technical diving activities using custom trimix mixtures without direct supervision, so long as the following limits are adhered to:

• The diving activities approximate those of training
• The areas of activities approximate those of training
• Environmental conditions approximate those of training