Advanced Nitrox Diver

Course

In Guildford

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Advanced

  • Location

    Guildford

  • Duration

    2 Days

To Introduce BSAC Sports Divers to the meticulous dive planning and practical skills required when diving and decompressing using enriched Nitrox mixtures. To monitor time spent at different depths tracking different partial pressures of oxygen in order to avoid oxygen toxicity. To teach the safe use of up to EANx 50 as both a diving and decompression gas. To teach the safe use BSAC Nitrox Decompression Tables. To teach the safe use of Nitrox and Air Computers.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Guildford (Surrey)
See map
12 Weston Road, GU2 8AS

Start date

On request

Questions & Answers

Add your question

Our advisors and other users will be able to reply to you

Who would you like to address this question to?

Fill in your details to get a reply

We will only publish your name and question

Reviews

Course programme

AIM

* To Introduce BSAC Sports Divers to the meticulous dive planning and practical skills required when diving and decompressing using enriched Nitrox mixtures.
* To monitor time spent at different depths tracking different partial pressures of oxygen in order to avoid oxygen toxicity.
* To teach the safe use of up to EANx 50 as both a diving and decompression gas.
* To teach the safe use BSAC Nitrox Decompression Tables.
* To teach the safe use of Nitrox and Air Computers.

DURATION
Two days: Day 1 - Classroom studies, Day 2 - Two Open Water Dives

ENTRY GRADE

* BSAC Sports Diver or similar (see BSAC SALT table) + 20 additional dives
* BSAC Nitrox Diver (or equivalent)
* Current evidence of Fitness to Dive

FACILITIES

* A suitable classroom for theory lessons, with enough space to spread Nitrox cylinders for practical analysing lessons.
* A suitable open water site for practical diving on Day Two.
* The following equipment will be required for the practical dives:
* 1 Nitrox cylinder per student (minimum 10 litre)
* 1 Pony cylinder (or doubles) per student
* 1 Delayed SMB per student
* Oxygen analysers.

Nitrox cylinders must conform to the BSAC recommendations: in test, in Oxygen Service and correctly labelled.

QUALIFICATION

Each part of the course concludes with an assessment, and only those who pass these assessments will receive the Advanced Nitrox Diver Certificate and qualification record book certificate.

SYLLABUS

Instructor briefing

Assemble, Introductions, Administration.

*Classroom Lesson - Introduction - 20 mins

Course aims
Advantages and disadvantages of Nitrox as a diving and a decompression gas.

*Classroom Lesson - Pressure and Nitrox mixes - 20 mins

Dalton's Law
Calculating ppO2
Maximum Operating Depth and Nitrox mix.
*Classroom Lesson - Nitrogen and Nitrox Diving - 90 mins
BSAC Nitrox Decompression Tables
Nitrogen Narcosis
Decompression - good practice, equipment
Carbon Dioxide Toxicity.
*Classroom LessonOxygen and Human Physiology - 60 mins Effects of Oxygen
CNS & Whole Body Toxicity
Monitoring Oxygen uptake
*Classroom Lesson - Equipment for Nitrox diving - 45 mins
Decompression equipment and configuration
Dive Cylinders
Regulators
Other diving equipment
Oxygen Service
*Classroom Lesson - Nitrox Mixing and Analysing - 60 mins
Ways to Mix / Blend Nitrox
Advantages, disadvantages
Practical Gas Analysing
*Classroom Lesson - Dive Organisation & Management - 60 mins
Dive Marshalling
Pairing divers
Decompression planning
Accident Management
Dive planning
*Classroom - Theory Assessments - 60 mins
*Classroom - Open Forum - 15 mins
Course debriefing - Disperse
Instructor De-brief

Advanced Nitrox Diver

Price on request