RAID New Tech Pathway… The Deep Option
EXTENDED DECOMPRESSION: TRAINING WHERE HELIUM IS NOT AN OPTION There are many great dive sites around the world where the logistics simply make trimix diving impractical. Helium is either unavailable or priced out of reach unless your net worth includes ownership of a 72-metre private yacht. One option is to use compressed air as your bottom gas rather than missing out on the adventure. RAID’s Extended Decompression program (with a maximum depth limit of 55 metres) will deliver the training and help build the experience, proper techniques, equipment choices, and potential hazards of deep air diving. This course is equipment intensive and challenges students (and instructors) to manage up to three decompression gases (nitrox to pure oxygen) during a controlled
Stand Proud… and show you’re committed
THERE’S A NEW WAY TO LET THE WORLD KNOW YOU DIVE THE RAID WAY Celebrate your achievements and let the community know you are a serious underwater adventurer. Log in to your personal profile at user.diveraid.com and check out the new RAID cards. The invitation to add a personalised acheivement diver card to your profile is generated automatically and is linked to your online dive log in the RAID system!
RAID Flexible Skills
THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HATHA YOGA When you read through RAID student manuals and course descriptions, you’ll occasionally see the list of skills that students will be asked to demonstrate as Flexible Skills. Don’t let this worry you. Your instructor is not going to ask you to touch your ear with a foot or to hold Tree Pose for 5 minutes without support. While both of those things might be wonderful feats of physical prowess, they are not part of The RAID Way. A flexible skill simply means that while you will have to demonstrate mastery of the specific skill to earn a pass and graduate the course, your instructor is not obligated to teach you the skill
Avoid Misunderstandings
Student/instructor agreements… a powerful tool that’s worth the time investment. LINK TO PDF >>> Click on the link above to download the RAID Recommended agreement as a pdf.
Never second-guess the rules.
The safe way to make a visual jump when cave diving… Don’t Every open-water diver knows that the first rule of scuba is: don’t hold your breath. Always have plenty of something to breathe, so you don’t have to hold your breath. In essence, the same basic advice, but more detailed. Cavern and cave divers have rules too; most of them are adapted from (and piled on top of) those from all the prerequisite courses. But some are unique to the overhead environment. The first is: Always maintain contact with a continuous line to a known exit. For non-overhead environment divers, here’s a brief explanation of what that means. You may already know that cavern and cave divers
CCR Pathway with RAID
RAID TRAINING CONFORMS TO THE AGENCY’S HIGHEST STANDARDS AND MEETS OR EXCEEDS THOSE SET BY THE UNIT MANUFACTURER.