The PADI NITROX Specialty is an excellent first step on your journey towards new extended limits – click calendar for dates.

DSAT GAS BLENDER
Blending Nitrox gas adds a new challenge to dive preparation, as well as a new level of independence and self reliance. Theory and Practical Application sessions provide the skills and knowledge to blend your own “DEVIL GAS”….

Understanding partial pressure blending and the safety procedures for handling pure oxygen will enable you to mix gases to within 1% accuracy of the desired blend.

You’ll be trained in the use of the 300bar Nitrox Blending Panel, to prepare gases from 22-99% Oxygen Enriched diving mixes.

Schedules are always set individually – usually to involve blending practise for the monthly Stoney Cove dive trip…. Call in with your diary for dates.

DRAGER REBREATHER
Using technical re-breather equipment, the Semi Closed Circuit Drager Dolphin lets you have longer and quieter dives, to get closer to more elusive wildlife.

The course covers the necessary theory, equipment preparation care & maintenance of a semi-closed circuit re-breather unit. Pool training introduces the different buoyancy skills necessary to dive in control and prepares you to complete the three open water training dives in safety.

If you think you’ve done it all in scuba diving : think again – Re-Breather diving is completely different than anything you’ve ever tried before…. A seriously new challenge !

Class & Pool training is conducted on Tuesday / Thursday evenings to suit personal schedules – call in with your diary to book it up.
Qualifying dives are at Wraysbury every month – click calendar for dates.


TWINSET DIVER
It’s all about TIME… Time underwater is all about GAS SUPPLY… Gas supply is about cylinders – so have more – TAKE TWO !!!

The PADI Twinset Specialty is UNIQUE to Blue Ocean Diving – not available at any other PADI Dive Centre in the Region.

This is the start of a long and slippery slope towards the abyss that is Technical Diving……. DEEPER - LONGER - DARKER

A day in the Classroom & Pool discussing gas management and dive planning with practical sessions on technical dive “rig” set up, leads to skills development in the pool to enable you to dive competently and confidently on a Twinset Tec Dive kit within recreational limits.

Qualifying dives are either at Wraysbury or Stoney Cove – focusing on Buoyancy and Emergency drills to ensure comfort & safety.

Dates run every month : click calendar for details.

This program dovetails perfectly with the DSAT Tec Basics program as a stepping stone into FULL TEC training…

There clear links between the courses – so much so that TWINSET divers qualified at Blue Ocean Diving get discount on Tec Deep training courses….


TEC BASICS
With Direct links to the PADI TWINSET course and the TEC DEEP program, the DSAT introduction to Tec is a useful stepping stone on the route towards the FULL TEC qualifications…

Covering the Knowledge Development in the Tec Deep manual and the pool skills from Tec Deep Dive 1 – the progress that you make in this course is credited for the Tec Deep Level 1.

The TWO DIVES in open water at Wraysbury get you going through your paces as a tekkie diver in deeper water, whilst facing environmental conditions somewhat more challenging than a pool !

This is a good way to start Tec Diving if you cannot commit to the fulle Tec Deep program all at once…..


TEC DEEP LEVEL 1
TEKKIE divers always look cool : “BOYS AND THEIR TOYS” – Girls too !!! This is where the SERIOUS FUN really begins always treating the dives with respect…. ….. going deeper and/or longer !

This extensive and challenging training program involves commitment and investment in time and equipment, learning to complete Gas Switch Extended range dives, using technical dive equipment & techniques to go beyond the limits of normal recreational divers.

You’ll need to have already qualified as a PADI Nitrox and Deep Specialist, and have at least 50 logged dives with specific experience in Nitrox & Deep Dives beyond 30m. Rescue Diver training is also recommended.

We strongly recommend that you complete the PADI TWINSET specialty and gain experience of at least 20 dives in a Tec rig prior to enrolling on this very demanding program.

Training begins with the set up of a Tec Diving “rig” and involves hours of entertaining problem solving and skills development in the pool, and practise in open water at Wraysbury before progressing to deeper waters of Stoney Cove to put it all into action in anger….

This course is very challenging – but amazingly good fun.


TEC DEEP LEVEL 2
Conducted in Egypt where training conditions are ideal and where weather cannot interfere with course logistics, this program is a continuation of previous Tec Deep training and advances divers experience and skills through extended repetition to build total mastery.

The progression beyond Tec Deep level 1 involves going deeper ( that 50m point is calling…. ) and using Accelerated Decompression with up to 100% Oxygen on mandatory staged deco stops in addition to the gas switch extended range dives you mastered previously.

Understanding the hazards and managing the risk of technical deep diving is a challenge for a small niche of divers who take the sport seriously and are prepared for the investment in time, effort and money necessary to safely go beyond the limits of normal recreational divers.

Black masks – Big Watches – Big Knives……. Very small…….. Torches !