ADVANCED TRIMIX DIVER
AS DEEP AS YOU CAN GO
The TDI Advanced Trimix Diver course is the top level of training for open circuit divers wishing to dive to depths as deep as 100 m / 330 feet utilizing hypoxic levels of oxygen (below 17 percent). This course is perhaps one of the most informative and challenging and upon completion you are among some of the most elite divers.
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DIVE COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
Who this course is for:
- The TDI Extended Range or Trimix Diver looking to:
- Extend their depth range
- Advance their technical diving education
Upon completion, you will be among some of the most elite divers, capable of doing and seeing more while diving than any other divers out there.
Your TDI Instructor will teach you
- Equipment management
- Multiple stage cylinder labeling and placement
- Complex decompression planning and contingency planning
- Dive team awareness and communication
- Gas monitoring and management
- Use of travel gasses
DIVE COURSE DETAILS & INCLUSIONS
What you can expect to learn:
- Advanced decompression dive planning including:
- Gas planning based on equivalent narcotic depths, nitrogen and helium absorption and elimination, CNS and OTU limits, isobaric counter diffusion, volume requirements, etc.
- Use of hypoxic gasses
- HPNS and isobaric counter diffusion
- 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 fining techniques
- Management of multiple (minimum of 3) decompression/stage cylinders
- Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss, omitted decompression, navigational errors, injured/unconscious diver, etc)
- Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing trimix nitrox and mixes, and gas blending procedures
DIVE COURSE ITINERARY
Course prerequisites:
- Minimum age 18
- Minimum certification of TDI Extended Range or Trimix Diver or equivalent
- Show proof of 100 logged dives, 25 must be deeper than 30metres/100feet
TDI Advanced Trimix minimum requirements:
- Satisfactorily complete the TDI Advanced Trimix course written examination with a passing score of 80%, followed by 100% remediation by the instructor
- Complete all open water requirements safely and efficiently
- Demonstrate mature, sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
WHAT TO BRING
Students will need to contact us to discuss what equipment will be required on the course
ADVANCED TRIMIX DIVER
