Description:

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 TDI Decompression Procedures Course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 45 metres/150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal sport diving limits. The TDI Decompression Procedures Course combined with the TDI 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.

Costs:

$1000 – instructor fees

$150 – materials and certification fees

If extra time is needed, extra dive days are $250 per day for two dives.

Requirements:

·      Advanced Diver and Nitrox certifications

·      Naui Sidemount Diver or TDI Intro to Tech

·      Proof of 50 logged dives

·      Good buoyancy

·      You will also need a Technical diving equipment kit. 

o   Manifold twins and doubles backplate and wing, regulators

o   Sidemount wing, tank stage kits and regulators)

o   An extra AL40 decompression cylinder, regulator and stage kit

What you leave with:

                        Minimum of 8 technical dives

                        Exemplary buoyancy

                        Ability to safely conduct staged decompression dives

                        Longer bottom time

                        Ability to plan significantly more complex dives

What you can expect to learn:

•               Decompression dive planning including:

•               Decompression gas choices

•               Tables vs. personal dive computers

•               Emergency and contingency planning (equipment failure, omitted decompression, etc.)

•               Decompression diving procedures

•               Equipment selection

•               Pre-dive checks and drills

•               Stress analysis and mitigation

•               Following a decompression schedule

•               Gas switching

•               Team awareness and communication

•               SMB/lift bag deployment

•               Proper trim, buoyancy and finning techniques

•               Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss, omitted decompression, navigational errors, etc.)

•               Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox mixtures, and gas blending procedures