Technical Diver Level 2

Program Content

As your motivation to explore progresses, you will find that you may want to explore farther or go deeper. Two of the major limiting factors of going deeper are narcosis and oxygen. Our Technical Diver Level 2 course helps the student to minimize the effects of narcosis and oxygen toxicity by introducing helium to offset the nitrogen in your breathing gas. The course will teach you how to plan and execute dives utilizing as little as 18 percent oxygen and diving to maximum depth of 60 m/200 feet with a blend of helium appropriate for the planned depth. The classroom portion of the course has three academic sessions of approximately 4 hours each. Specific topics covered include light helium (He)-based dive planning, operational planning for multi-stage tank management, greater oxygen exposure as well as a number of standard operating procedures for various in water equipment failures.

The second half of the program will entail 10 dives over five days. During these dives, students will build on the theory from their class sessions, with a large focus on problem solving. The students will learn to use multiple stages during decompression. The depths of the dives will require increasingly long decompression profiles.

Prerequisites

• At least 21 years of age
• Good physical condition
• Completed medical questionnaire
• Appropriate equipment
• Technical Diver Level 1 certification
• Logged proof of 125 dives, including:
  • 25 divers after Technical Diver Level 1 certification
  • 25 dives deeper than 100 feet
  • 25 dives in the last 12 months

Course Limits

• Student to instructor ratio 4:1 during open water dives
• Maximum depth during course dives 200 feet (60 metres)
• No training dives will be at night
• Decompression gases will range from 50% to 100% O2

Tuition
All fees are in Canadian dollars

• Tuition fee: $1,400 (These courses can be split and would cost $700 each)
• Certification fees (2 certifications possible), manuals, dive gases, boat fees and other course expenses are extra and are subject to change

At H2O Madness our courses are designed to help students find the tools they need in order to expand their knowledge and meet their diving goals. When you take a course form us you are not paying for a certification, you are purchasing training. Certification will only be issued if the student completes the program in the required time and to the satisfaction of the primary instructor.