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RAID’s new advanced diving course has been engineered to be a soft introduction to staged decompression diving: it’s a simple but open-ended entry point into all the excitement and challenge of technical diving.
This is Sidemount or Twinset diver course.
This course allows for dives up to 40 meters /130 feet using three cylinders. This includes two filled with bottom gas (twinset or sidemount see below), and one with.decompression gas.
The decompression gas for this course can contain a maximum of 100 percent oxygen when conditions are suitable with minimum of 50 percent recommended.
Prerequisites to join this course are for students to be 18 or older, and to be an experienced open water divers with 30 hours/25 hours or more logged underwater with Deep, Nitrox (or Nitrox Plus), and Explorer 30 or Advanced 35 specialties.
Decompression diver showcases RAID’s different approach to deep diving, and introduces students to more complex dive planning, the benefits of using a dedicated decompression gas. and smooth team work before, during, and post adventure.
The Decompression Diver course may be combined with either sidemount or twinset training and cert cards will be configuration specific.
During 2025 rollout phase RAID Deco 40 instructors or higher may conduct the Decompression Diver course. Limited Trimix may be conducted by Deco 40 Trimix instructors or higher.
Each student must complete these requirements.
- Minimum of 1 confined water dive with no minimum time requirement.
- Minimum of 4 open water dives with at least 3 hours of underwater training.
- At least one dive must be an actual decompression dive.
- If combining RAID Sidemount or RAID Twinset Diver with Decompression diver a minimum of 2 open water dives with at least 2 hours of underwater training must be added.
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