Are you looking to expand your dive time? Maybe you’re a scientific diver or photographer looking to stay in the water a little longer?

The TDI Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 percent within your current certification level to a maximum depth of 40 metres/130 feet during dives that do not require staged decompression. Often taught in conjunction with the TDI Decompression Procedures course, this can be considered the foundation of your technical diving career. TDI Advanced Nitrox is also a must for SCR or CCR divers.

The Training

The TDI Advanced Nitrox Course includes two parts:

• Online learning – once you have signed up for the course, we will provide you a code to sign up for the online learning in advance of your practical training to work through at home. You will then go through key areas in greater detail with your instructor and cover areas such as plus many others:
• • Dive tables vs computers
  • Dive tables and planning
  • Equipment Considerations
  • Decompression Options
• Classroom training – After you have reviewed the key knowledge areas and ready to go you will then join your instructor for the practical element of your training and cover the following areas:
  • Conduct team orientated drills
  • Gas Matching among buddy team
  • Familiarity with hand signals, gas switching and lift bag deployment
  • Pre-dive planning procedures
• Open Water Training – After you have covered the key knowledge through the online learning, you will then join your instructor for 4 open water dives where you will cover the following plus much more:
  • Staging cylinders
  • Responding to emergency scenarios such as gas loss, omitted decompression and assisting a buddy member in distress
  • Executing complex dive plans and creating contingency dive plans through a decompression schedule
  • Conservative gas management, gas switching and gas sharing

Pre-requisites

• Age: 18 years old and above
• SDI Advanced Adventure Diver and above, or equivalent, from an alternative agency
• TDI Nitrox Diver and above, or equivalent, from an alternative agency
• Minimum of 25 logged dives
• Good physical health – You will need to fill out a self certification medical statement. If you have any medical conditions you think may prevent you from scuba diving please feel free to contact us