EL MAR DIVING CENTER

The SSI Extended Range Foundations specialty provides you with an opportunity to enhance your advanced diving skills in a workshop environment. Learn more about using tec diving gear with any total diving system you are certified to use and build upon your basic skill set to master buoyancy, trim, finning techniques, positioning, and communication.
The Extended Range Foundations program provides supplementary training to existing certifications to increase your confidence and in-water control. All in-water sessions are completed in El Mar Diving Centers on-site pool.

Prerequisites

• Min. Age, 18
• 24 logged Dives

Recommended Training

• Recreational Sidemount Diving Specialty to use Sidemount Configuration
• Recreational Sidemount Diving Specialty to use Sidemount Configuration

Includes

• Pool Sessions
• Instructor Fee
• Certification Card

Students must have one of the following Total Diving Systems

• Recreational Total Diving System
• Twinset Total Diving System
• Sidemount Total Diving System

El Mar Diving Centers Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 130 feet with limited decompression using your 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 dive sites or larger wrecks without being restricted by the traditional no-decompression limits. The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger!.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Pool Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 3 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• 40 cu.ft. Decompression Cylinder w/ Regulator

Requirements

• Min. Age, 18 Years Old
• 24 logged dives
• Deep Diving Specialty
• Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty
• Total Diving System
• BCD w/ appropriate D-rings for stage cylinder attachment
• Dive Computer with Decompression Capabilities
• DSMB & 100' Spool
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Travel Fees
• Boat Charter Fees

SSI Extended Range provides divers with the training necessary to independently plan and conduct limited decompression dives to a maximum depth of 150 feet, using decompression mixtures of up to 100% oxygen and specialized diving equipment and procedures, for a maximum accumulated decompression time of 25 minutes, with an equally-qualified dive buddy.

Extended Range Encompasses

• Decompression procedures using 50% to 100% mixtures
• Decompression obligations limited to 25 minutes
• Using a Extended Range Total Diving System with a stage cylinder
• Using Trimix mixtures to reduce narcosis(min. of 21% oxygen)
  (if Student pays for Helium Upgrade)

Prerequisites

• Min. Age, 18
• 50 logged Dives
• Deep Diver Certification
• Enriched Air Nitrox Certification
• Extended Range Foundations
• Doctor Signed Medical Statement

Recommended Training

• SSI Dry Suit Diving Specialty
• SSI Decompression Diving Specialty

Includes

• Extended Range Total Diving System for Pool and Certification Dives
• Twin Cylinders
• Decompression Cylinder w/ Regulator and SPG
• Gas Fills for Pool and Certification Dives
  (Extra Charge for Helium, based on current Helium prices)
• Classroom Sessions
• Pool Sessions
• Six Open Water Dives(trip cost additional)
• Instructor Fee
• Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Student Digital Materials
• Two Mask
• Fins
• Dive Computer
• Technical Harness
• Two Cutting Devices
• Exposure Suit
• Reel or Finger Spool w/ 150 Feet Line
• Surface Marker Buoy w/ 50 lbs Lift
• Slate or Wetnotes
• Multi-Deco Dive Planning Software