Looking for extreme action? Check out SSI's Technical Extended Range Program!



Xtreme Excitement
SSI’s TechXR is a well founded Technical Diving program and it was created to take the recreational diver to an extreme level for their diving adventures. Whether you are looking for the excitement of deep reef diving or the thrill of exploring wrecks located well past 40m (130 feet), SSI TechXR is a way to learn the training and experience necessary for you to complete every new adventure with confidence and skill.   Whatever your current diving ability, extended range diving will challenge you with environments, depths, bottom times, procedures, and equipment not commonly encountered by recreational divers. You will be experiencing advanced levels that require extensive knowledge, enhanced diving skills, and considerable experience.

Xtreme Training
Everything you will learn through TechXR has been designed and tested under the most demanding conditions. All of the complex information has been broken down an made simple to understand.
High quality professionals with years of experience in the technical diving arena will teach you the skills necessary to become a technical diver. You will develop confidence and comfort with these new skills through repetition and supervised experiences. Training will be designed to match your goals and objectives.

Xtreme Fun
To support your journey, SSI has developed these specific learning tools: a manual, interactive CD-ROM, Technical DiveLog and Technical Dive Slates. In addition, your instructor may also require you to have a personal copy of an advanced dive planning software program. The courses available for you to take are: Advanced Nitrox, Technical Foundations,  Decompression Procedures, Normoxic Trimix, and Advanced Decompression Procedures. You can take each of these courses individually or all at once.  You will develop confidence and comfort with these new skills through repetition and supervised experiences. Training will be designed to match your goals and objectives. SSI′s signature training method′s the "SSI Diver Diamond "and "Comfort Through Repetition" have been applied to keep the programs consistent and provide the same high quality education as other SSI products.

We are currently offering the following two courses:

Students enrolled in the Advanced Nitrox course will develop the fundamental knowledge, equipment familiarity, and skills needed to participate in extended range diving activities. Even for divers who do not plan to make decompression dives, this course will increase confidence and enhance diving abilities. It is for every diver who wants to dive deeper, longer, or in more challenging environments.

Prerequisits: Certification in Enriched Air Nitrox, minimum 18 years old, minimum 24 logged dives out which minimum 6 need to be Enriched Air Nitrox Dives

Technical Foundations divers will be trained to utilize singles with H-valves or twinsets, and stage cylinders or pony bottles. They will be introduced to advanced dive planning and make training dives as deep as 42m (140 ft). Students will also learn oxygen procedures and may use up to EAN50 for contingency decompression and to improve off-gas efficiency at safety stops.

Prerequisites: minimum 18 years old, minimum 50 logged dives, certification in Deep, Stress & Rescue, Enriched Air Nitrox and additionally certification in Navigation or Cavern, Advanced Open Water Diver

Xtreme Flexibility
The SSI TechXR program is designed to meet your needs. The instructor can formulate training around your individual goals and objectives. If you are just seeking for training how to perform safe decompression dives or if you want to walk the entire path through to become a TECH DIVER, SSI TechXR is the right program to satisfy your needs!

Call Castaway Scuba for more details - you must purchase your books a minimum of one month in advance as it's a home study course and there's alot of information!