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  • Your new diving experience starts at 45! Your technical diving gateway!  You are probably here because there are some amazing dive spots and wrecks you can’t enjoy within recreational dive limits.  The Extended Range (XR) course focuses on expand your diving skills as well as your knowledge to safely and confidently plan and execute dives up to 45 metres of depth using Air or Limited Trimix as a back gas and one deco mix up to 100% oxygen to accelerate your deco time obligation. You will learn to plan a dive using a Deco Plan Software to a maximum of 25 minutes of deco.  You will learn to use of double tanks, use and handle of a deco stage tank, improve your basic skills including buoyancy, kicks and equally important to expand your situational awareness as a diver. 
  • Let’s get technical ! This course offers in-depth knowledge and extensive practice of the different fundamental set of skills to conduct dives up to 40 metres with an obligatory decompression of up to 15 minutes using a single decompression gas of up to 50% oxygen. This is your first step towards technical and mixed gas diving.
  • 80 meters or 100 meters?! This is the pinnacle of technical diving. Here you will use all the knowledge, skills, equipment and experience from all of your previous training and push your limits to the extreme. There are two pathways; one takes you to 80 meters and the other to 100 meters using the same Extended Range Total Diving System you mastered in previous programs. However, you will now use a minimum of three stages for decompression and travel gases.
  • Happy 60!! Explore deeper, explore longer. The intent of the SSI Technical Extended Range program is to provide divers with the knowledge and diving practice to safely plan and execute a dive up to the 60m range using Trimix of oxygen content between 18-21% and Helium content with a maximum END of 30m and use of two deco gasses for accelerated deco.

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