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COURSE PREQUISITES: The student must:
1. Be a minimum age of eighteen (18) years old.
2. Have a minimum certification of CCR Diver, Air Diluent.
3. Show proof of 50 hours experience on the specific unit.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
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Open Water Execution:
1. Six (6) dives are required, totaling 360 minutes.
2. One shallow gear configuration dive is required.
Course Structure:
1. TDI allows instructors to structure courses according to the number of students participating and their skill level.
2. The exam may be given orally if not available in a language the student understands.
Duration:
1. Minimum of eight (8) hours for academic development and a further two (2) hours for
equipment configuration workshop.
EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS:
Required Equipment for every student:
1. CCR Rebreather. This should be the student’s own unit.
2. One Bailout gas supply cylinder with a minimum capacity of 5 liters / 40 ft3.
3. One Deco gas supply cylinder with a minimum capacity of 5 liters / 40 ft3.
4. Both cylinders to be oxygen clean and marked appropriately.
5. Two (2) open-circuit regulators and gauges fitted to the cylinders.
6. Minimum two (2) bottom timers (depth and time), or computer(s).
7. mask, fins and suitable line-cutting device.
8. Slate and pencil.
9. Access to an oxygen analyzer.
10. Two (2) Lift bags or 1 Lift Bag/Marker Bak and 1 SMB with minimum twenty-five (25) lb / twelve (12) kg lift.
11. Reel with a minimum of two-hundred (200) feet / sixty (60) meters of line.
12. Second reel/spool with a minimum of one-hundred (100) feet / thirty (30) meters of line.
13. Jon-line or other rigging lines as dictated by site conditions.
14. Exposure suit appropriate for the open water training environment.
15. Appropriate weight.
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Features
The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures
for stage decompression diving on the KISS CCR, using Air Diluent, to a maximum depth of forty-
two (42) msw / one hundred forty (140) fsw. The course is intended for CCR rebreather divers who
lack open-circuit decompression experience, and wish to become proficient in stage decompression
techniques. This could be in preparation for the Mixed Gas CCR Diver Course.
Topics Covered:
1. Overview of decompression “safety stops” compared to required stops.
2. Physics
3. Gas Physiology.
4. Decompression Options
5. Equipment Considerations
6. Dive Tables vs. Computers
7. Dive Planning
8. Procedures
9. Formula Work.
10. Dive Tables.
11. Dive Computers.
12. Dive Planning.
13. Equipment Maintenance
Land Drills:
1. Selection and preparation of equipment suitable for soft overhead environment.
2. Conduct team oriented drills (buddy checks) for lift bag deployment
3. Conduct team oriented drills (buddy checks) for gas switching procedures
4. Gas matching among buddy team
5. Demonstrate familiarity with basic hand signals
6. Demonstrate adequate pre-dive planning
A. Limits based on personal and team gas consumption.
B. Exact dive and decompression profile.
C. Limits based on system performance.
D. Limits based on oxygen exposures at chosen PPO2 levels.
E. Limits based on nitrogen absorption at planned depth and PPO2 (Setpoint) level.
F. Correct narcotic depth planning (Setpoint selection) to allow dil flushing at depth.
Pre-Dive Skills:
1. Use S.T.A.R.T. before every dive.
2. Stress analysis and mitigation.
3. KISS specific pre-dive sequence, including:
A. Analyze and label all cylinders
B. Pre-dive checks
C. Pre-breathe
D. Modified S-Drill
E. Descent Check
Decompression Related In-water Drills:
1. Demonstrate buoyancy control (ability to hover at fixed position in water column without
moving hands or feet).
2. Show good awareness of buddy and other team members through communications, proximity and team oriented dive practices .
3. Demonstrate comfort swimming on surface and at depth carrying one bailout and one
decompression cylinder bottle.
4. Demonstrate ability to drop and retrieve one bailout and one decompression cylinder while
maintaining position in the water column.
5. Demonstrate ability to deploy a lift bag solo and as member of team.
6. Demonstrate controlled/staged ascent on lift bag / emergency ascent line (lost ascent line).
7. Remove and replace mask (deploy backup mask).
8. Demonstrate appropriate reaction to gas hemorrhage from manifold or first stage, SPG and
primary regulator.
9. React to BC inflator malfunction (disconnect LP hose, dump gas and orally inflate BC/Wing
to neutral buoyancy).
10. Demonstrate ability to confirm gas switches at depth with buddy/team members.
11. Buddy breathing deco gas for at least one minute.
12. Switch to back-up mask (remove and replace mask).
13. Demonstrate appropriate reaction to simulated free-flowing deco regulator.
14. Demonstrate appropriate modifications to deco schedule in decompression emergency
(over time, over depth) (to be simulated).
15. Demonstrate tired diver tow at depth and on surface (30 meters / 90 feet lateral each).
16. Complete a horizontal breath hold swim at depth for 15 meters / 45 feet.
17. Properly execute the planned dive within all pre-determined limits
A. Assembly of diver carried equipment.
B. Proper descent / ascent rates.
C. Proper staged stop procedures.
D. Monitoring of decompression status equipment (tables, computers, equipment).
18. Contingency Situations and Problem Solving (as appropriate by instructor)
A. Omitted decompression.
B. Extended bottom time profiles with increased decompression and re-calculated
schedules.
C. Failure to deploy lift bag and reel.
D. Missed up-line or missed boat anchor.
E. Loss of decompression gas.
19. A safety stop of at least three (3) minutes shall be conducted on all No-Decompression
dives and proper staged decompression stops whenever and wherever mandated.
20. Demonstrate (simulated) emergency gas sharing at a stationary depth not to exceed thirty
(30) msw / one hundred (100) fsw.
21. Demonstrate emergency deployment of a backup regulator or bail-out scuba system containing bottom mix at a depth not exceeding thirty (30) msw / one hundred (100) fsw.
22. Demonstrate the proper deployment, management and use of the bottom mix, decompression mix and travel mix (if used), including but not limited to:
A. Conservative gas management.
B. Depth control to avoid descending too deep for mix.
C. Show appropriate and timely responses to instruction / demonstrate buoyancy control
and awareness throughout the dive.
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