Overhead technical dive courses

Technical Wreck Diving

The XR Technical Wreck Diving Course is designed to be a full penetration, advanced technical diving program. It is not related closely to any recreational equivalency, instead the skills are more closely related to Basic or Full Cave Courses. This information is important both in the conduct of the course and in the screening of adequately qualified candidates for this program.

COURSE CONTENT

This program allows unlimited wreck penetration to a maximum depth of 60 meters. The transition to twins must be accomplished as a part of this course you will need to add additional confined water and open water time to the program. You should not go into restricted spaces, overhead environments or very deep water until sufficient proficiency with twinsets can be demonstrated.

PRE-REQUISITES

• Deep, Wreck and Diver Stress & Rescue certifications (or equivalent)
• SSI Extended Range or XR Limited Trimix and either Advanced Wreck Diving certification or Cavern Dive certification (or equivalent)
• 75 logged dives to include at least 20 wreck dives and 20 dives in ocean like environments (or equivalent)

Cavern Diving

XR Cavern Diver is one of the entry pathways into the Technical Diving SSI Extended Range. It is designed to give ongoing Tech Cavern divers’ basic skills for the purposes of doing limited penetrations into the natural light zone of underwater cave systems.
For the purposes of this course, limited means that the diver must at all times remain within a penetrating sunlight zone and in areas where two divers can pass comfortably side by side (no restrictions).

COURSE CONTENT

The Cavern Course is the first part of a series of cave diving courses. The XR Cavern Manual focuses on line handling skills, propulsion techniques and buoyancy control. These are the foundations for safe penetration diving. The more advanced courses (and text) will expand these skills to include more complex navigation patterns and advanced gas management techniques.

Combine this course with the Cave Diving (Intro To Cave) and the Full Cave and save time and money!

Cave Diving (intro to cave)

After you successfully mastered the Cavern course you might want to further your knowledge and certification level to the Cave Diver, in which you have to use a Complete Technical Extended Range Total Diving System

COURSE CONTENT

The Cave diver is limited to navigation along the main line- the only time an Cave Diver should use any line other than the main line is when placing the primary reel from open water to the main line so as to maintain a continuous guideline to open water.

PRE-REQUISITES

• Diver Stress & Rescue certification or equivalent
• SSI Cavern Diving certification or equivalent
• Advanced Open Water certification (or equivalent)
• 50 logged dives

Full Cave Diving

In the world of cave diving there is a core group of experts that have spent nearly 5 decades developing the rules and training methods that permeate the training used by nearly every cave training agency in the world. The National Association of Cave Divers (NACD) has established itself as a world leader in this highly specialized segment of the diving world.

COURSE CONTENT

SSI`s Extended Range Programs are true Technical Diving programs. They challenge the diver with multi stage unlimited decompression profiles. As with the XR programs, real overhead techniques are covered when participating in the cave programs. Because of the nature of these extreme programs your training will be incredibly thorough and exacting. Nothing is left to chance and all bases are covered. The high level skills and knowledge during the XR programs are taken a step further allowing you to push not only traditional diving limits but also your own.

PRE-REQUISITES

To get to full cave diver level from cavern diving you will participate in the SSI XR cave diving  and full cave diving programs. Intro/basics allows penetration on a single line. Full cave allows complex navigation and you learn how to traverse, jump, tee and gap within the cave system. You will enhance your lost line, lost teammate, gas sharing and loss of light skills.

• Diver Stress & Rescue certification or equivalent
• SSI XR Cavern Diving certification or equivalent
• Advanced Open Water certification or equivalent
• 75 logged dives including at least 20 cavern or cave dives.

And either

• SSI XR Cave Diving certification