Advanced Trimix Diver

This course is for you if you are looking to extend your depth range and advance your technical diving education. 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 metres/330 feet utilizing hypoxic levels of oxygen (below 17 percent). This course is one of the most informative and challenging of all of the TDI open circuit courses.

 

You will learn:

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Advanced decompression dive planning including:

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• 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.

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Requirements:

• Minimum age 18.

• The course requires 5 Dives to be completed.

• Minimum certification of TDI Extended Range or Trimix Diver or equivalent.

• Show proof of 100 logged dives, 25 must be deeper than 30metres/100feet.