NAUI Training Course

Technical Wreck Penetration Diver

OVERVIEW

This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to gain experience and minimise risks in penetration wreck diving at depths beyond 40 metres and utilise Heliair for dives to maximum of 55 metres that require stage decompression, utilising EANx mixtures and/or oxygen during decompression.

QUALIFICATIONS OF STUDENTS

Upon successful completion of this course, students are considered competent to plan and execute penetration wreck dives that require stage decompression without direct supervision, provided the diving activities and the arears dived approximate those of training.

PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE

Minimum age of 18.

Minimum certification as a Wreck Penetration Diver and NAUI Heliair Diver or their equivalent with at least 10 logged penetration wreck dives. Minimum of 100 logged dives total.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

The students are to analyse their own breathing gas mixture and to plan and safely execute each dive. Dive planning shall include limits based on gas consumption, oxygen toxicity exposure and inert gas absorption for each dive and breathing gas mixture. Each diver is to demonstrate switching and isolating a malfunctioning regulator, first in confined water, and following adequate practice, at a depth between 10 and 20 meters, our of air sharing with 1.5 metre or longer hose through a restriction, locating a lost penetration line, silt-out/black water procedures, underwater navigation appropriate to the dive plan, deployment of DSMB for stage decompression. Students shall participate in a diver rescue simulation to include management of a diver experiencing underwater convulsions.