Decompression Diving Course (SSI)

EXTEND YOUR DIVE

Decompression Diving

Are you interested in learning how to extend your dive beyond the traditional no-decompression limits? Do you want to understand and use more of your dive computers features? Then the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty is for you!

 

This specialty course will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using your own recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration, time-to-reserve and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning.

 

Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore stunning deep dives sites without being restricted by the traditional no-decompression limits. The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger.

  • Participants require their own personally fitted recreational or technical scuba system
  • Minimum age for participant 16 years old
  • Minimum of 40 logged dives
  • Have achieved the Deep Diving, Nitrox and Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certificates

$1049

  • Access to SSI online theory
  • 1 x 5 hour theory session
  • 1 x 3h pool session
  • 1 x Boat dive to the Mooloolaba Coral Reefs
  • 2 x boat dives at Barwon Banks
  • HIRE 3 x EAN 30% Aluminum tanks and weights
  • Internationally recognised digital certification (upon completion)
NOT INCLUDED:
  • 3 x 40% stage fills (approx. $50)
  • 11L stage tank/rigging kit and stage regulator

The course includes a 2 hour theory session in our classroom the evening before your first day of training. The first day of your course will begin at one of our local pools. You will learn how to S.W.I.T.C.H correctly (switching from your main regulator to your stage regulator), remove and replace your stage cylinder, share gas while ascending on your stage regulator and SMB deployment. After our pool session we will complete one dive to 21m on the local Mooloolaba reefs.

 

The second day will include a dive planning  session in the morning and two dives on the local Mooloolaba reefs between 30 and 35m. We will dive beyond the no-decompression limits of our computers and plan up to 15 minutes of decompression stops.

 

Evening   I  5pm – 7pm Theory session in our classroom

Day 1  I  7am – 5pm  3hr pool session, Lunch, 1 x boat dive on coral reef max depth 21m

Day 2  I  9am – 5pm  Dive planning, lunch, 2 x dives on coral reefs max depth 35m

  • SMB (recommended Apeks 1.4m with a CC DAM)
  • 45m Spool (recommended Apeks 45m)
  • Wrist Slate (any brand)

A certified SSI Decompression Diver can dive anywhere in the world to 40 metres, using up to 40% Nitrox and have a maximum decompression time of 15 minutes (non-accelerated).

  • A minimum of two divers is required to start the course
  • Stage tank and regulator is $50/day (required for two days)
  • Price subject to change without notice