If you are thinking about technical diving but aren't sure, DSAT Discover Tec lets you try technical diving equipment and procedures. Discover Tec experiences can also credit towards the DSAT Tec Diver Level One or Tec Deep Diver courses.

Entry Requirements:

Required Materials:
None

Minimum Age:
18 years old

# of Confined Water or Limited Open Water Dives: 1

If you're interested in technical diving, but haven't yet met the prerequisites for the DSAT Tec Deep Diver course, you can consider enrolling in the DSAT Tec Diver Level One course. It is also a sub course of the full DSAT Tec Deep Diver course. The course is intended for those who do not yet have the prerequisites to progress to full technical diving but wish to begin developing the skills and the knowledge involved.

You'll learn to make gas switch, extended no-decompression dives using air and enriched air to 40 meters/130 feet. You'll also prepare for and respond to foreseeable technical diving emergencies. Since it's part of the Tec Deep Diver course, you DSAT Tec Level One Diver course training credits toward the DSAT Tec Deep Diver course.

Entry Requirements:

Minimum Age:
18 years

Required materials :
Tec Deep Student Crew Pak, which includes student manual, planning slate and checklist slate - included

Certification:
DSAT Tec Diver Level One certification - included

# of Confined Water or Limited Open Water Dives: 3
# of Open Water Dives: 4

The DSAT Tec Deep Diver course takes you past recreational diving and immerses you in the world of technical diving. Tec Diver Level One is a prerequisite, for those with experience, the course now provides the training to begin moving beyond recreational scuba diving depths. Covers use of all decompression mixes up to 100% oxygen, and diving to a maximum depth of 50m/165ft.

After successful completion of the DSAT Tec Deep Diver course you'll be able to conduct gas-switch extended no-decompression dives, decompression dives and accelerated decompression dives using air and enriched air to a depth of 50 meters/165 feet. You'll also understand the hazards and risks involved in technical diving, as well as how to prepare for and handle reasonable foreseeable technical diving emergencies.

Entry Requirements:

Minimum Age:
18 years

Required materials :
Tec Deep Diver Manual - NOT included

Certification:
DSAT Tec Deep Diver certification - included

# of Open Water Dives: 5

For those already holding Technical qualifications this course extends their depth range capabilities to a maximum of 75m/250 ft using Trimix. For the extreme diver ready to further explore the world of technical deep diving, the gas of choice is trimix. The DSAT Tec Trimix Diver course takes you to the outer edges of technical deep diving, opening the door to pristine dive sites few divers – if any – ever see.

The DSAT Tec Trimix Diver course is intended to extend the depth range available to technical divers trained and qualified to use air, enriched air and oxygen for technical decompression dives beyond 50 meters/165 feet in open water. The DSAT Tec Trimix Diver course is intended for technical divers certified as DSAT Tec Deep Divers (or qualifying certification from another training organization). The course extends their depth range capabilities by training them in the use of trimix (helium, oxygen and nitrogen).

Entry Requirements:

Minimum Age:
18 years of old

Required materials :
Tec Deep Diver Manual - NOT included
Tec Trimix Student Manual - included

Certification:
DSAT Tec Trimix Diver certification - included

# of Confined Water, Limited Open Water or Open Water Dives: 2
# of Open Water Dives: 7
( 3 of the training dives can be credited depending on your certification level and past experience)

Imagine sliding through the water, accompanied not by the roar of bubbles, but by silence. Imagine getting close and personal with aquatic life – getting closer than ever before. When you dive with a semi-closed rebreather, you’re nearly bubble free – reducing the noise and disturbance that can scare away shy creatures. This recreational depth rebreather diving with a basic enriched air or nitrox certification being a prerequisite or taken alongside the course.

Through either the Semi-closed Rebreather Draeger Dolphin Specialty course you learn the special procedures for semi-closed rebreather diving. This includes special dive planning, organization, procedures and potential hazards, many of which differ significantly from conventional (open circuit) scuba.

Entry Requirements:

Required Materials:
None

Minimum Age:
15 years

# of Confined Water Dives: 1
# of Open Water Dives: 3

A course in both nitrox and trimix gas blending, also covering oxygen cleaning and handling procedures, and production of oxygen compatible air. More people are diving with enriched air and this means the demand for enriched air fills is also increasing. However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the DSAT Gas Blender course comes in. It can result in one of two certifications: DSAT Gas Blender or DSAT Trimix Blender.

The DSAT Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers. You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.

Entry Requirements:

Required Materials:
DSAT Gas Blender Manual with Gas Mix Calculator - included

Minimum Age:
18 years old