Adv Wreck Penetration course



INSTRUCTOR TRAINING IDC STAFF INSTRUCTOR DIVER Level Courses Gas Blender program ADV Wreck Penetration CLOSED CIRCUIT REBREATHER DIVER
	Waikato bow gun (click on picture for more images) TDI ADVANCED Wreck Penetration Diver SO...... you have dived a few wrecks in your time? Maybe entered the wreck and swam around the inside? But something has made you want to go further inside, venture round that corner, see what mysteries unfold!!!! Now you can venture further into overhead environments with the appropriate training and experience. PURPOSE The TDI Advanced wreck penetration course is designed to advance a divers skills to be able to plan and execute full penetrations into wrecks beyond the natural light zone. The program will also go into gear needs, advanced dive planning, gas management, team management, researching wrecks and mapping them. Depths shall not exceed the level in which the diver is trained and competent, COURSE COSTINGS $1500.00 for training, including cert fees and materials. Call for one on one training feesdoes not include boat costings diving the Waikato (budget for $120 for two dive days - will need 3 days diving) PROPOSED DATES contact Pete on petemes@ihug.co.nz Max 2:1 ratio for all dives per course. Qualifications of Graduates Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in wreck diving activities without direct supervision so long as: 1. The diving activities approximate those of training. 2. The areas of activities approximate those of training. 3. Environmental conditions approximate those of training. Student – Instructor Ratio Open Water (Ocean, lake, quarry, spring, river or estuary): 1. A maximum of four (4) students per Instructor. However, it is the instructor’s discretion to reduce this number as conditions dictate. (2;1 for wreck penetration) Student Pre-Requisites The student must: 1. Be a minimum age of eighteen (18). 2. Be certified as a Rescue diver. 3. Show proof of at least fifty (50) logged dives. 4. Be certified as Basic Wreck or Cavern or equivalent. It is not a prerequisite to have your Adv Eanx and decompression procedures course but this will really assist you when it comes to extended times on the wreck using maifolded twins. We can easily do the program with different redundant air configurations (Y valves, or pony bottles) but this will just help you more with regards to extending your penetration time. Just contact me for more discussion on this and I will gladly show you the benefits of taking such courses before this program. Course Structure and Duration Open Water Execution: 1. Six penetration / overhead dives and an accumulated bottom time of one hundred minutes. 2. Only two (2) dives from Advanced Wreck course may be credited towards the total dives required for Advanced Nitrox, Decompression Procedures, Extended Range or Entry Level Trimix. Course Structure: TDI allows instructors to structure courses according to the number of students participating and their skill level. Duration:The minimum number of classroom and briefing hours is eight (8). Required Equipment The following equipment is required for each student Primary Cylinder(s) Cylinder volume appropriate for the planned dive and student gas consumption rate. Dual valve, double manifold or independent doubles. Labeled in accordance with TDI Standards. 2. Travel or Decompression Cylinders as required by site conditions. 3. Regulators Primary and primary redundant required on all primary breathing cylinders. Submersible pressure gauges are required on all primary cylinder(s). A contingency use long hose second stage should be designated and appropriately rigged to facilitate air sharing at depth if necessary. 4. Buoyancy Compensator adequate for the open water environment. 5. Back-up Depth and Timing Devices. 6. Air decompression computers allowed for use as depth and timing devices. 7. Light Systems Primary. Back-up. 8. Ascent reel with lift bag/surface marker buoy or up-line Adequate for the planned maximum depth. Minimum of 11 kg Lift. 9. Exposure suit adequate for the open water environment. 10. Two (2) Line Cutting Devices. 11. Underwater Slate. 12. Reels Primary penetration reel. Safety reel. Main rocker covers in the engine room of the Mikhail lermontov Theory/Practical Subject Areas The following land drills must be covered during this course Guideline Use. Guideline Following. Emergency Procedures. The following topic must be covered during this course. Instructors may use any text or materials that they feel best presents these topics. 1. Equipment Considerations Redundant scuba. Lights. Reels. Tools. 2. Procedures Pre-dive. Pre-penetration. Penetration. Exiting the wreck. 3. Hazards of Wreck Diving and Overhead Environments Disorientation. Reduced visibility. Entrapment. Entanglement. Environmental. Loss of gas supply. Line traps. Separated buddy teams. 4. Penetration Lines Types. Proper use. 5. Research and Locating Local regulations. Sources of information. Tools. Surveying. 6. Contingency Planning Chamber locations. Communications. Emergency gases. Tui midships Required Skill Performance And Graduation Requirements The student must complete the following skills during wreck dives. All dives should be conducted with a maximum depth no deeper than the least certified student’s capabilities. Properly analyze all gas mixtures to be used. Demonstrate adequate pre-dive planning A. Limits based on personal and team gas consumption. B. Limits based on oxygen exposures at planned depths for actual mixes. C. Limits based on nitrogen absorption at planned depths for actual mixes. Properly execute the planned dive within all pre-determined limits. Demonstrate the proper navigational techniques for the specific dive. Demonstrate out of air sharing with long hose through a restriction. Demonstrate the proper procedures for switching and isolating a malfunctioning regulator Demonstrate the proper techniques for locating a lost penetration line. Deployment of lift bag or up line for decompression. Silt-out procedures. Follow line with eyes closed. Follow line while sharing air. Follow line with eyes closed while air sharing. In order to complete this course, students must: 1. Complete all field exercise and open water requirements safely and efficiently. 2. Demonstrate mature, sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution TRAINING IS PURCHASED - CERTIFICATION IS EARNED! PREREQUISITE SKILLS in any diver training environments you will be assessed on your current level of skills BEFORE your course starts. If your skill level is below what is expected you will not be able to carry on with advancing your training until you are at the appropriate level. This is for YOUR safety.Why would you want to try and do things where you were not ready for? So the best thing to do is PRACTICE, PRACTICE and revise, and do MORE practice!!! If you are partaking in training from abroad, or down country assesment dives can be taken during early stages of your training. Again, if you are not up to speed training will stop and you will lose all your monies you paid for the training program. So it is really in your best interests to prepare. Please note that we are here to help give you the skills needed to partake in these diving activities in a safe and highly competent manner. All training is done in two segments Skill development - This is where we learn the actual mechanism of the skills, take our time to develop them, practice like crazy and practice some more! Skill Application - This is where you are assessed on problem solving, appropriate decision making, taking the right cause of action in emergency situations, proper dive planning, gas managment and basically putting everything you have learnt into practice. The great thing about advancing your diver training with us is that you will never be pressured into getting into situations that you cannot manage and handle. Basically we take it as fast (or as slow) as YOUR comfort levels go. It can take you as many training dives as need be to become comfortable, confident and competent in the water ( additional traninig costs will apply) but the main focus is getting you happy in this unforgiving environment. This way partaking in these activities are on YOUR terms and you are in total control of your actions. Once you are really happy and competent in the water with the skill level you are training towards you will undergo Skill Application. This is a pass or fail portion of the course. You will be assessed on decisions you make, individually and collectively as a team. You will have opportunities to retake skill application dives that you are not successful on. Remember the point is to be ready for these assessment dives. After 3 unsuccessful dives you will need to redo the entire Skill Development training portion of the course again. What we have done here is price the sections individually so that means that you know exactly where you stand. If you prepare appropriatly you will need only do the required Skill Application dives, WHO IS TAKING THE PROGRAM??? . Pete Mesley (pictured right pictured here on one of his Truk lagoon expeditions with Leigh Bishop), one of NZ's prominent wreck and technical diving adventurers, has been actively wreck diving for over 17 years now. With hundreds of hours inside wrecks he really does lead by experience. Come and enjoy the challenges of wreck penetration with one of the best. TDI Adv Trimix CCR Instr, Adv Wreck instr, PADI Course Director and DSAT Tech IT Gas Blender program Prerequisites: Be 18 years or older Be certified as a nitrox diver ( in any agency) Duration: Depending on numbers but normally one -2 days Course Cost: $495.00 (based on minimum of 2)

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