Prerequisites
- Nitrox diver certification from a recognized training agency
- Minimum age: 18 years
- 'Deep Air' certification from a recognized training agency or proof of experience to the same level
- Have a minimum of 20 logged dives
Description
IANTD Advanced Nitrox; if you valued and enjoyed your nitrox training then here is your next step. This course will extend your knowledge and develop your diving skills to provide a greater understanding of the nitrox concept. This course is ideally combined with the IANTD 'Deep Air' course to start your training in the sport of technical diving. Learning advanced dive planning and mastering the use of double tanks, independent systems, and stage bottles are just a few of the skills you will learn during this course.
This course is ideal for divers with 'Deep Air' training who wish to carefully extend their bottom times beyond that of basic nitrox and for all divers who wish to prepare for a future of technical or rebreather diving, and those who wish to conduct serious decompression dives and who eventually will enroll in an IANTD 'Technical Diver' program. This is the highest level of non-professional and non-technical diver certifications and prerequisites are a minimum of 18 years of age with a nitrox diver certification and a 'Deep Air' certification from a recognized training agency or proof of experience to the same level.
This course is outlined as a two day program with around 8 hours of classroom, dive briefing and open water training involves 4 dives to a maximum depth of 130 feet/40 meters. The breathing gasses can be nitrox or air using one nitrox decompression mix up to 50%, carried in a stage bottle while practicing various decompression techniques with the introduction and use of computer generated decompression profiles for dive planning. During this course the student will be diving in double tanks and technical dive gear in a maximum course size of 4 students per Instructor. After completion and certification of this course divers will be issued a certification card as well as being qualified to plan and safely execute dives to the limit of training while using different equipment configurations, air, and nitrox mixes up to 50% Oxygen. Course cost is $350 and 3 days in duration.
Equipment requirements
Students are expected to have the following though we do have equipment for rental by daily rates.
- 2 back-gas regulators
- 2 stage regulators (1 O2 cleaned)
- 2 Depth gauge/timing device or computer
- 3 SPG's (1 O2 clean)
- Back plate/harness
- Wings (redundant) with at least 20kg/44lb lift
- Exposure suit protection (recommended 5mm to 7 mm full length and hood)
- Slates
- Surgical tubing (2 meters/7ft)
- Clips
- 2 line cutters
- Reel with lift bag/SMB
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