• Gives a fuller understanding of the applications of both EANx and of trimix in recreational diving depths.
• Provides grounding in deeper diving theory and technique.
• Aims to develop the students knowledge of, and ability to utilize, streamlined and efficient equipment configuration, and develop precision buoyancy control and good body position for low drag while swimming.

• Must be an Advanced Open Water Diver and Nitrox certified, or
• Complete the Nitrox certification in conjunction with the Recreational Trimix program (see below )
• Must have a minimum of 15 logged open water dives.

• Max. Depth 30m/100' , unless the candidate holds a Deep Diver certification, when maximum depth will be 39m/130ft.
• A session spent on land focuses on equipment configuration and fit, and dry runs of confined water skills.
• A confined water session is spent working on buoyancy refinement, propulsion skills, body position/trim, and emergency skills such as gas share
• Two dives in open water utilizing recreational trimix mixtures with an Equivalent Narcosis Depth not to exceed 24m/80ft.
• Gases used will be in the range of 28-40% oxygen with PO2's not to exceed 1.4 ata.

• Review of Basic EANx.
• Equipment concepts and configuration.
• Buoyancy considerations
• DCS and Decompression theory.
• Oxygen exposure and toxicity
• Purpose and application of Helium in diving.
• Gas management.
• Inert gas narcosis.
• Carbon Dioxide problems and breathing technique.
• Dive Planning/software use.
• Accident management

Course Cost Includes Recreational Trimix Diver manual, wall certificate and C-card. All oxygen charges (helium extra), use of appropriate BCD and regulator. Local boat charters.

Student requires Underwater slates or notebook, line and reel with liftbag or safety balloon, knife, and preferably own means of monitoring depth, time, and direction. This equipment will be available for rent .

Helium charges for the course - typically additional US$40-75 depending on the mixes dived.

Important Students with unsafe attitudes or demonstrating bad dive habits or poor water skills will not be certified. Training is purchased upon enrollment and certification is earned through the students performance and knowledge demonstrated at the end of the course. Performance will be evaluated using the IANTD 'Individual Dive' and 'Course Completion' forms. Candidates not achieving a passing score will be required to make additional dives for certification.

Notes On Combination Courses : This program may be combined with the IANTD Nitrox Diver certification, taking approx 3 full days to complete, with an additional cost of $150.

• Gives a fuller understanding of the applications of EANx in recreational diving.
• Provides a thorough grounding in deep diving theory and technique.
• Is an entry level Technical Diving program introducing the discipline involved in Technical Dive planning and certifying the diver to make dives beyond recreational No-decompression limits
• Is a prerequisite to Fully Closed Circuit Rebreather training.
• Is a prerequisite for IANTD Technical Diver and Normoxic Trimix Diver Training.

Prerequisites

• Must be an Advanced Open Water Diver and Nitrox certified.
• Must be an IANTD Deep Diver or equivalent..
• Equivalency is defined as an Advanced Open Water Diver with 50 logged dives, ten deeper than 27m/90, and must pass the Deep Diver exam as a pre -assessment.

• Max. Depth 42m/140ft
• Two hours of confined water working specifically with skills, emergency procedures, etc.
• A confined water session is spent working on buoyancy refinement, propulsion skills, body position/trim, and emergency skills such as gas share
• Four boat dives, with a minimum of 120 minutes of bottom time, at least two of which must be between 30m\100ft and 42m/140ft.
• All dives made on EAN 22-40.
• EAN 41-100 used to teach the fundamentals of safety\decompression stops. All simulated or real stops will be on EAN 41-100.
• Decompression will be limited to a maximum of fifteen minutes

• Review of Basic EANx.
• Equipment concepts and configuration.
• Stress management.
• DCS and Decompression theory.
• Oxygen use and abuse.
• Gas management.
• Nitrogen narcosis.
• Injury management

Course Cost Includes Advanced EANx Diver manual, wall certificate and C-card. All gas fills, use of appropriate BCD, all bottom mix and Oxygen clean tanks and regulators. Local boat charters.

Student requires Plastic underwater slates or Wet Notes, line and reel/spool with liftbag or safety balloon, knife, surface signal device such as Dive Alert and preferably own means of monitoring depth, time, and direction. This equipment will be available for rent.

Important Students with unsafe attitudes or demonstrating bad dive habits or poor water skills will not be certified. Training is purchased upon enrolment and certification is earned through the students performance and knowledge demonstrated at the end of the course. Performance will be evaluated using the IANTD 'Individual Dive' and 'Course Completion' forms. Candidates not achieving a passing score will be required to make additional dives for certification.

Purpose

• Gives a fuller understanding of the applications of both EANx and of trimix in recreational to intermediate diving depths.
• Provides a thorough grounding in deep diving theory and technique.
• Is an entry level Technical Diving program introducing the discipline involved in technical dive planning and certifying the diver to make dives beyond recreational no-decompression limits
• Is an acceptable prerequisite prerequisite for IANTD Normoxic Trimix Diver Training.

Prerequisites

• Must be IANTD Recreational Trimix certified, or a Nitrox Diver and IANTD Deep Diver with 30 logged dives as a minimum, or equivalent as below
• Have sufficient experience to satisfy the instructor that the student has the ability and knowledge to continue into this level of training.

• Max. Depth 48m/160ft
• Approximately two hours of confined water working specifically with skills, emergency procedures, etc.
• Four boat dives, with a minimum of 120 minutes of bottom time. At least two dives will be on trimix with a maximum Equivalent Narcosis Depth of 24m/80ft.
• EAN 41-100 used to teach the fundamentals of safety\decompression stops. Simulated or real decompression stops may be on any mix with no PO2 exceeding 1.5 ATA.
• Decompression will be limited to a maximum of fifteen minutes

• Review of Basic EANx.
• Equipment concepts and configuration.
• Stress management.
• DCS and Decompression theory.
• Oxygen use and abuse
• Purpose and application of Helium in diving.
• Gas management.
• Nitrogen narcosis.
• Injury management

Course Cost Includes

Advanced Recreational Trimix Diver manual, wall certificate and C-card. All oxygen charges (helium extra), use of appropriate BCD, all bottom mix and oxygen clean tanks and regulators. Local boat charters.

Student requires Plastic underwater slates or Wet Notes, line and reel/spool with liftbag or safety balloon, knife, surface signal device such as Dive Alert and preferably own means of monitoring depth, time, and direction. This equipment will be available for rent.

Important Students with unsafe attitudes or demonstrating bad dive habits or poor water skills will not be certified. Training is purchased upon enrollment and certification is earned through the students performance and knowledge demonstrated at the end of the course. Performance will be evaluated using the IANTD ‘Individual Dive’ and ‘Course Completion’ forms. Candidates not achieving a passing score will be required to make additional dives for certification.

Notes On Combination Courses : This program may be combined with the IANTD Advanced Nitrox Diver Course, takes 5/6 days to complete, with an additional cost of $250. Helium is charged extra, typically $125-$150 total for the course.

Notes: Divers already certified at Technical levels, such as Technical Diver, Technical Cave or Wreck, may have two air/nitrox dives credited and complete only the academics, confined water review  and two Trimix dives for certification. This upgrade will cost $495 exclusive of Helium.

• Designed to afford a safer means of deep water exploration for those already involved in deep diving.
• The knowledge and skills taught in this course are more than adequate to qualify divers to perform dives outside of training up tp 100m/330ft.

Prerequisites

• Must be certified as an IANTD Technical Diver (or Normoxic Trimix, Technical Wreck or Technical Cave ) or equivalent.
• Must have a log or proof of 200 dives, of which 25 are deeper than 42m/140ft or:
• Sufficient experience doing technical dives to satisfy the instructor that the student has the ability and knowledge to enter this level of training.

• Either a confined water dive, or a skills training dive not deeper than 27m/90ft will be conducted.
• Four trimix training dives will be made at depths greater than 39m/130ft
• Depths will be worked up to incrementally, no dive being more than 12m/40ft deeper than the students previous maximum depth.
• At least one dive will be to 72m240ft or greater and maximum depth will not exceed 100m/330ft with END not exceeding 39m/130’.
• If combined with the Technical Diver or Normoxic Trimix Diver Program, at least 420 minutes of run time over minimum 7 dives must be completed.

• Reviews of all topics from the Technical Diver Program, such as Dive Planning, Risk Analysis, Inert Gas Narcosis, CO2, Understanding Oxygen, DCS and Decompression Theory.
• Plus
• Helium Considerations
• Development of Trimixtures
• Blending Calculations
• Use of Decompression Software.

Course Cost Includes Trimix Diver Student manual, certification fees, use of isolation manifolded double tanks and stage cylinders and any required bottom mix or O2 clean regulators and appropriate BCD, all O2 fills and local boat fees.

Course Cost does not include Helium fills, estimate $300-$450.

Student Requirements Plastic underwater slates or Wet Notes, two depth gauges and bottom timers, preferably two cutting devices, reels/spools lines and liftbags.

Combined Courses Can be combined with the Technical Diver or Normoxic Trimix Diver program which will then include a minimum of 420 minutes of open water run time over at least seven dives in addition to all other course requirements. Cost is US$1,395 excluding Helium.

Important Students with unsafe attitudes or demonstrating bad dive habits or poor water skills will not be certified. Training is purchased upon enrollment and certification is earned through the students performance and knowledge demonstrated at the end of the course. Performance will be evaluated using the IANTD ‘Individual Dive’ and ‘Course Completion’ evaluation forms. Candidates not achieving a passing score will be required to make additional dives for certification.

IANTD Wreck Diver courses are conducted wholly or in part at locations such as Subic Bay in Luzon on the wrecks of El Capitan and USS New York, or by liveaboard at Maestro de Campo Island on the wreck of the MV Mactan. Final course costing and logistics vary accordingly.

Purpose

• To train divers in extended wreck penetration diving, using appropriate trimix and/or nitrox/oxygen gases for diving and decompression.

Prerequisites

• Must be a minimum of IANTD Deep Diver and IANTD Nitrox Diver or equivalent for Advanced Wreck Diver
• For Technical Wreck Diver, need to hold an IANTD ( or equivalent ) Technical Diver or Normoxic Trimix Diver certification or higher, unless these are taken as a combined program.
• Must have 70 logged dives, or sufficient experience and knowledge doing technical dives to satisfy the instructor that the student is capable of entering this level of training.
• If training dives are to be complete deeper than 39m/130ft, must have 100 logged dives.

Program Content and Limits

• Max. Depth 51m/170ft or the maximum depth to which the student is certified, whichever is the shallower
• The course contains dry simulations and confined water training working on basic skills, line laying technique, communications and touch contact, emergency procedures etc.
• At least six dives, with a minimum of 240 minutes of overhead environment time (typically 300-400 minutes in the wrecks ).
• Decompression gases are limited to the certification of the student, EAN50 for Advanced Nitrox or Advanced Rec Trimix Divers, up to 100% oxygen for those with technical certifications.

Academic presentations will include

• Equipment set up and streamlining, line, spools and reels
• Lights and hand signals
• Intro to line skills in a simulated wreck
• Simulated night dive, lights and hand signals only
• Missing diver, lost line protocols and touch contact
• Gas shares through restrictions, gaps and cut line
• Gas matching, gas management, stress management, lost line drills ( silt outs ), anti silting techniques

Course Cost Includes IANTD Wreck Diver manual, wall certificate and C-card. Tanks and weights included.

Course Cost does not include equipment rental, boats and gas fills, expenses for instructor and equipment transportation to the site of the course, and personal expenses at the dive location. Please inquire for projected costs.

Student Requires All personal diving equipment plus BCD and regulators for technical diving. Primary reel and two safety reels or spools. Primary light and two back ups. SMB where appropriate. All available for rent if required.

Important Students with unsafe attitudes or demonstrating bad dive habits or poor water skills will not be certified. Training is purchased upon enrollment and certification is earned through the students performance and knowledge demonstrated at the end of the course. Performance will be evaluated using the IANTD ‘Individual Dive’ and ‘Course Completion’ forms. Candidates not achieving a passing score will be required to make additional dives for certification.

• The GUE Fundamentals course is designed to cultivate the essential techniques required by all sound diving practice, irrespective of level or environment. Functioning as a prerequisite for all other GUE classes, GUE-F performs a two fold purpose within the GUE curriculum. 1) It provides the recreational diver, with no desire for further diver training, with a context with which to advance his/her basic diving skills, thereby developing more comfort, confidence and competence in the water, and 2) it provides the diver with aspirations of more advanced diver training with the tools that will contribute to a greater likelihood of success.

Prerequisites

Must meet GUE General Course prerequisites as outlined in section 1.6 of http://www.gue.com/files/Standards_and_Procedures/GUE_Standards_Ver6.2.pdf
• Minimum 16 years of age
• Certified Open Water Diver from a recognized training agency.
• Must be able to swim 15m on a breathold and swim 275m in 14 minutes without stopping.

Duration

• Conducted over a 3-4 day period involving a minimum of 20 hours of instruction in classroom and in water.

Course Limits

• General training limits as in section 1.4 click here
• Max Depth 18m/60ft.
• No decompression, no overhead environment.

Course Content

•  GUE-F is conducted over a 3-4 day period. Combining lecture and in water sessions this course focuses on cultivating the foundational skills required by all diving practice. It is focused on increasing fun by reducing stress and increasing diver proficiency through proper control of buoyancy, trim, propulsion, teamwork, and other GUE principles. Minimum of eight hours of academics and 6 in-water sessions.
   

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• Doing it Right : The Fundamentals of Better Diving. Jarrod Jablonski, GUE 2001, High Springs, Florida

Equipment Requirements

• See section 2.1.4.10 of click here
• Global Underwater Explorers - for more information, please also visit www.gue.com

Land Drills and Topics

• Dive Team Protocols
• S-Drill and Valve Drill
• Equipment Fit and Function
• Propulsion Techniques
• Pre-dive Drills

Academics Include

• Introduction and Overview
• GUE Overview
• GUE Diver Training
• Course Overview
• Building a Solid Foundation :
• Buoyancy Control
• Trim
• Balance
• Propulsion Methods
• Basic Skills
• GUE Equipment Configuration
• Dive Planning and Gas Management :
• Unified Team
• Basics of Gas Planning
• Gas Strategies
• Situational Awareness
• Breathing gas dynamics :
• Breathing Gases Under Pressure
• Narcosis
• Complications with Oxygen
• Introduction to Nitrox
• GUE Standard Gases
• Decompression :
• The Mysterious Malady
• The Basics of Decompression
• Minimum Decompression Procedures
• Decompression Illness ( DCI )
• Diving Safety and the GUE System :
• Diving Accidents
• Accident Prevention
• The GUE System

Required Dive Skills and Drills

• Demonstrate proficiency in safe dive techniques, pre-dive, on-water and post dive assessment.
• Demonstrate awareness of team member location and a concern for safety, responding quickly to visual cues and dive partner needs.
• Efficiently and comfortably demonstrate how to donate gas to an out of gas partner in multiple gas sharing episodes.
• Comfortably demonstrate at least two propulsion techniques appropriate for delicate/silty environments.
• Demonstrate a safe and responsible demeanor throughout all training.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the ability to deploy a spool and liftbag/SMB.
• Demonstrate good buoyancy and trim.
• Demonstrate proficiency in underwater communication.
• Demonstrate basic equipment proficiency.
• Demonstrate mastery of mask clearing, mask removal and replacement, regulator removal and exchange and long hose deployment.
• Demonstrate safe ascent and descent procedures.
• Demonstrate proficiency in executing a valve drill.

Course Costs

Course excludes Registration fees as per GUE website, Facility Fee covering tank rentals and gases etc ( $75 ) and boats if required.

If you want an introduction to the excitement of moving through the water with no effort, then this is your course. Covering ways to get the most out of using a DPV, as well as the things to take into consideration when making your dives – buddy contact, navigational concerns, the environment, and dealing with scooter problems.

Course Content

The course will cover the basic components and features of the scooter/DPV to be used and the steps involved in pre-dive set up. This can be conducted using the students own DPV, or rental unit from Tech Asia. We move on through dive planning considerations such as taking into account burn time of the batteries, and air supply when planning distances to be covered, and how to maximize the benefits of diving with a DPV. In our locality particularly, this gives the chance to dive some of our best dive sites, yet still be able to scooter back to shallow water for safety stops, rather than be faced with open water ascents that swimming divers would have to make. We essentially have the chance to make two dives out of one!

Safe execution of such dives requires students be aware of buddy tracking procedures, depth change considerations, entanglement hazards, and simple assists such as air shares. Dealing with equipment problems such as possible floods, failures, or runaway motors, whilst rare, is discussed and various solutions explored.

Confined sessions as required, and two dives are usually made, learning to handle the DPV used in the course being the essentials of the first, and having the opportunity to take more control over the planning and conducting of the dive being the purpose of the second.

 

Prerequisites

• Any certified diver may take the course, though it must be conducted within the depth limits of the students existing certification.

Cost includes

• Tank, weights, BCD ( usually backplate system ) and regulator. All fills including nitrox if the diver is certified to use it. Certification fee. DPV rental fee is $50 for the course if required. For DPV rental terms and costs see here.
• If the diver doesn’t have their own personal gear ( fins, mask, wetsuit etc ) normal equipment rental charges apply.

Certification

Certification is as a PADI DPV Diver Specialty with the first dive being credited towards the Advanced Open Water Diver certification if the student requires..

Purpose

The Tec 50 course completes the PADI Tec Rec entry level training and represents a high level of skill and competency, allowing the diver to make decompression dives using two decompression gases to maximum depths of 50m/165ft.

Course Content

The diver will build up to making actual decompression dives using two decompression gases, as deep as 50m/165ft. The final dive may be made on trimix although the certification intends the use of air/nitrox bottom gases.

Full standardised technical diving equipment is required, and procedures and skills are polished to the high level required to manage foreseeable problems and emergencies that could be encountered at this level of diving.



This course provides the foundation for further training in specialized technical diving like deep trimix, technical cave and wreck diving.

The course consists of one confined water dive, three training dives ( one simulated, two actual decompression dives), two knowledge development sessions and three practical applications.

Prerequisites

• Minimum Age: 18 years
• Tec 45 certification or equivalent
• PADI Rescue Diver or equivalent.
• First Aid and CPR within the past two years
• A minimum of 100 logged dives, of which at least 20 dives were made with enriched air nitrox, 20 dives were deeper than 18 meters and at least 15 dives deeper than 30 meters.

Cost includes

• Certification fees, use of double and deco tanks, back plate, harness, technical BCD, regulators, all air and enriched air fills and boat trips.
• If the diver doesn't have their own personal gear (mask, fins, wetsuit etc. ) normal equipment rental charges apply.

Certification

To be certified as a Tec 50 Diver, the student must successfully meet all the performance requirements for the Knowledge Development and Practical Application sessions and the four dives involved.

Purpose

The PADI Tec Trimix course is intended for technical divers certified as PADI Tec 50 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).

Course Content

The diver will be trained to dive to a maximum of 75 meters using various trimix blends, enriched air and oxygen, using open circuit technical diving equipment and procedures required to manage the risks involved.

Training includes development in the cognitive and motor skills for technical trimix diving, as well as preparation and response for reasonably foreseeable emergencies that may occur in this type of technical diving.

The course also includes advanced skills like handling of multiple stages and deco tanks in limited open water and on actual deep trimix dives.

The training provides skills applicable to further training and experience in technical diving.

The course consists of four Knowledge Development Sessions, five Practical Applications and eight Training Dives; two of them are optional in some cases (contact Tech Asia for details).

Prerequisites

• Minimum Age: 18 years
• Rescue Diver (including proof of training in CPR and first aid within the previous two years).
• PADI Tec 50 Diver or have a qualifying certification in deep decompression diving using air/enriched air from another organization (contact Tech Asia for details).
• A minimum of 150 logged dives.

Cost includes

• Tec Trimix Diver Adventure Pac (manual, slates etc.),
• Use of decompression software, double and deco tanks, back plate, harness, technical BCD, regulators, all air and enriched air fills and boat rides.
• If the diver doesn't have their own personal gear ( wetsuit, mask,fins etc. ) normal equipment rental charges apply.
• Charges for Helium are not included. Average costs are about $400, depending on number of participants and mixes used.

Certification

To be certified as a PADI Tec Trimix 65 Diver , the student must successfully meet all the performance requirements for Knowledge Development One through Four, Practical Applications One through Four, Tec Trimix Diver Exam and Training Dives One through Five. For PADI Tec Trimix Diver must additionally complete Practical  Application Five and Training Dives Six through Eight.

Purpose

The course is designed to provide information on the safe handling of oxygen, and the preparation of both Enriched Air and of Trimix for diving purposes. It gives an insight into oxygen cleaning and inspection procedures, production of oxygen compatible air, the various blending methods and systems a blender may come into contact with, and hands on blending experience.

Course Content

Specifically, classroom work will cover the following topics :

• Properties of oxygen
• Suppliers and methods of obtaining oxygen
• Oxygen Service and cleaning protocols
• Inspection procedures
• Partial pressure blending system design
• Production of oxygen compatible air
• Air quality testing
• Blending methodologies - which one is for you?
• Production of helium based mixtures
• Use of software and longhand blending calculations

Practical work includes :

• Overview of a partial pressure blending system
• Oxygen cleaning and inspection workshop
• Blending of both Enriched Air and Trimix fills.

Cost Includes the DSAT Gas Blender Student Manual and the Mix Calculator CD-Rom blending software

Certification is upon completion of the Gas Blender exam, and on mastering of blending techniques ie/ producing at least five blends to within an analyzed accuracy of 1% of the desired blend. Candidates must also demonstrate a mature and responsible attitude towards the handling of gases to the satisfaction of the instructor.