50% Nitrox and 40m Max
The Recreational Advanced Diver course is aimed at divers wanting to extend their diving knowledge and skills but don’t want to advance into full tech diving with twin tanks etc. To enroll in the course the divers must hold a minimum dive grade of Sports diver with an additional 20 dives.
The course basically introduces the students to the meticulous dive planning and practical skills required when diving and decompressing using enriched nitrox mixtures. This includes monitoring time spent at different depths and tracking different partial pressures of oxygen in order to avoid oxygen toxicity. The students will also be taught how to use the nitrox tables safely and also be introduced to the use of nitrox dive computers. The course will be taught with a back tank and either a pony cylinder or side tank, this helps minimize the need for the student to familiarize themselves with a lot of new equipment.
An example outline of the course can be found below:
Day 1 – Theory
- Introduction
- Pressure and Nitrox Mixes
- Nitrogen and nitrox diving
- Oxygen and human physiology
- Equipment for nitrox diving
- Nitrox Mixing and Analyzing
- Dive organization and management
- Theory Assessment
Day 2 – Open Water Dives
- Dive 1 – Simulated deco dive with stops at 9 and 6 m
Skills – Depth discipline – The student will have to monitor their depths closely and not exceed maximum planned depth, Deployment of DSMB and Gas Switching – The student will have to switch gas supplies underwater
- Dive 2 – Simulated deco dive with stops at 9 and 6 m
The skills will be the same as on dive one but this time they will be running to a strict dive plan and be assessed on their buoyancy skills, timing and depth management throughout the dive and deco stops.
***Please note passing the course is not guarenteed. Certification depends on reaching a required standard.
