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| Technical Diving Instruction Are you interested in a path to technical diving? Here's how to get started: 1. Take the NAUI Enriched Air Diver Course. Why this particular class? It offers the most comprehensive foundation for understanding mixed gases, their use, and their effects on the human body. You will be qualified to use oxygen enriched air mixtures up to 40% oxygen, which in most situations allows you to have more than two times the no-stop dive time afforded by air. 2. Log a total of 50 dives; 10 of which are on nitrox. More is better; this is a minimum. Get comfortable in the water, with your basic skills, and invest in all or your own quality gear. 3. Complete a NAUI Master Scuba Diver course. In this course. you receive a review and continuation of the material from your Scuba Diver course. Included are applied sciences, gear, diving risks, environmental considerations, navigation, limited visibility, search and recovery, light salvage, and deep diving. Emphasis is on applying knowledge of physics, physiology, medical aspects, specialized gear and its function, rescue techniques, and other topics to diving skills, such as buoyancy control, pressure changes, air consumption, and personal limitations. Then....... after you have achiived Master Diver and have had an opportunity to dive in varied environments, and have brought your diving knowlege up to one of the highest levels then you can start to explore some other technical diving training programs. The decisions to move onto techincal diving should be made with your instructor after a planning and counseling session regarding your diving goals. Your scuba instructor will help you choose the appropriate training programs and instructional team to help you achieve your goals. 4. Enroll in the NAUI or IANTD Technical EANX Course. You will then have the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of utilizing optimal breathing gas mixtures of 25% through 80% oxygen for for dives to a depth of 150 fsw not requiring stage decompression. 80& EANx is used for decompression and 25% - 60% EANx is used for bottom mix. 5. Enroll in the NAUI Decompression Techniques course. 6. Log a minimum of 100 dives, of which at least 30 were deeper than 90 fsw (27 msw). 7. Enroll in an IANTD Normoxic Trimix class. This program is for the diver who wants to dive deeper than 130 fsw without the mind numbing effects of nitrogen narcosis. Divers will learn how to use trimixtures with helium which minimizes the narcosis effects. 8. Log a total of 250 dives, 75 of which must have been deeper than 130 fsw; 10 of which were on best mix EANx utilizing stage decompression techniques. 9. Enroll in the NAUI Trimix Level I Course. |
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