SSI EXTENDED RANGE COURSE $1599
The SSI Extended Range course is part 2 of 3 from the SSI Extended Range Course taking you to 45 metres.
Our course includes 2 trips on our charter to the Poor Knights and your course breathing gas.
The course focuses on giving you the skills needed to safely conduct an open circuit technical decompression dive to 45m using a single decompression gas of upto 100% O2 for accelerated decompression with your team.
Successful candidates will not only be qualified to conduct decompression dives to a max depth of 45m, but more importantly, the course builds on skills learnt on the XR Foundation and SSI Extended Range Nitrox courses, so you will be comfortable using twins with different gas mixes in your stage cylinders.
What you will learn on the course:
- Physics
- Physiology
- Hyperoxic gas mixes for decompression
- Nitrogen absorption and elimination
- Psychological aspects
- Decompression Options
- Technical Equipment – twins
- Stage cylinder rigging and labelling
- Dive Tables v Computers
- Dive planning
- Surface support
In water skills include:
- Buoyancy control
- Finning techniques
- Gas switching as part of a team
- Problem solving
- Rescue skills
Cost: $1499 | From 4 days | Includes the cost of 2 trips to the Poor Knights Islands
Cost includes all SSI training, certification and study materials. Any specialist equipment will be provided by the student for the duration of the course.
The third is your Open Water Dives. This is what it’s all about – you’ll make your first dives in the ocean! During four dives, you’ll perform various skills under water and on the surface to make sure you’re a safe and competent diver. The training portion usually only takes up the first part of the dive, meaning that you will get to spend a big part of your time diving with your instructor and exploring the underwater world. And the best part is that you’ll do the final 2 dives at the world famous Poor Knights Islands!
Once qualified you will be able to dive anywhere in the world down to 18 meters. But this is just the beginning. There are a number of exciting courses that you can do to enhance your diving and open up even more destinations and adventures.
Prerequisites:
- Minimum 18 years of age
- 100 or more logged dives
- Rescue diver qualification
- Nitrox qualification with a minimum of 12 dives using enriched air nitrox deeper than 18m
- Deep Diver qualification with a minimum of 6 dives deeper than 30m
- SSI Extended Range Nitrox or equivelent
- Current dive medical
We have found that candidates will get a lot more from their course if they have a strong foundation to start with. So having training and experience diving twin cylinders, plus the skill to back fin and hold their position in the water will aid them through this course and beyond.
About your Instructor
Simon has been an active technical diver since 2014. Since then, he has dived extensively in New Zealand and around the world. His Technical training was conducted in New Zealand by Tom Crisp and Andrew Simpson and his Tec Deep Instructor training by legendary wreck and technical diver Pete Mesley.
He has been lucky enough to dive some of the worlds best wrecks and reefs – Wrecks including the WWII wrecks of Truk Lagoon, SS Coolidge in Vanuatu, our own Mikhael Lermontov in Marlborough, plus ex HMNZ Waikato and Canterbury here in Northland Reefs including Komodo National Park, Great Barrier Reef, Red Sea, Maldives, plus our own Poor Knights and Fiordland and many more.
Course Schedule:
- Classroom theory sessions 2 × 4 hours
- Confined water pool sessions 1 × 3 hours
- Open Water Dives – 4 dives, with 2 of these being deeper than 30m. These are usually at the Poor Knights.
Transportation is not provided by Dive Now Whangarei, but we do our best to help organise car pooling to the dive sites.
Required Equipment available for purchase or rent from Dive Now
- Twin cylinders with Isolation Manifold
- 1 x Stage cylinder
- Wing and harness with suitable lift for diving conditions
- Twin regulators with long hose configuration (DIN)
- 1 x Stage regulator (ideally DIN)
- 1x Mixed gas decompression dive computer
- 1x Back up computer
- Mask and Fins
- Suitable exposure suit for depth and environment
- 2 x DSMB and reel
- 2 x cutting device
- Wet notes
- Primary light
- Back up light
- Back up mask
Future Opportunities
Once you complete the course, you will have plenty of opportunities to practice your skills on our regular dive trips. 2a1