Open Circuit Courses

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Discover Scuba Diving

Have you always wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater? If you want to try scuba diving, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, Discover Scuba Diving is for you.

Open Water Diver

Get your scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course. Millions of people have learned to scuba dive and gone on to discover the wonders of the aquatic world through this course.

Adventure Diver

The Adventure Diver course is a subset of the Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification or dry suit diving? There’s a long list of scuba adventures you can take part in during this program. Complete three Adventure Dives and you earn the Adventure Diver certification.

Advanced Open Water

Designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your Open Water Diver certification. This course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives.

Rescue Diver

learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver, knowing that you can help others if needed. During the course, you learn to become a better buddy by practicing problem solving skills until they become second nature.

Divemaster

The PADI Divemaster course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, like perfecting the effortless hover, and refine your rescue skills so you anticipate and easily solve common problems. You’ll gain dive knowledge, management and supervision abilities so you become a role model to divers everywhere.

Technical Courses

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OPEN CIRCUIT DECO 40

The RAID DECO 40 program forms a bridge between recreational and technical diving. The problem with technical diving is that it has marketed and positioned itself as unattainable for the average diver. Divers are led to believe they must have superhuman strength and mental agility to participate in a technical diving program. Of course, here at RAID we believe this is simply not the case, but believing and acting are two totally different things.The Deco 40 program is aimed squarely at the recreational market and not at the technical market. The program is ideally completed using modified recreational equipment. Deco 50 Instructors may teach the Deco 40 program using twinsets, and Deco 40 instructors certified as Sidemount Instructors may teach the program in sidemount configuration. The Deco 40 makes an ideal entry-level decompression program, but it must be noted that it has been created with the recreational diver in mind.The Deco 40 program awards divers multiple certifications in one. The program overview is as follows:

  • Being aimed directly at the recreational diver, participants may complete the course using traditional recreational equipment. The only provision is that the BCD or wing needs to have D-Rings capable of attaching a side slung cylinder.
  • Divers must fit a 2 metre/7-foot primary regulator hose.
  • Dive to a maximum depth of 40 metres / 130 feet.
  • Complete a maximum of 10 minutes' decompression.
  • When completing a decompression dive, divers must use a bailout gas.
  • This bailout gas must be safe to breathe at the maximum operating depth of the decompression dive.
  • If this gas is different from the primary breathing gas, divers must use a multi-gas switch computer and perform no-decompression dives.
  • Certify to use up to 100% oxygen to extend their no decompression dive times by using multi-level gas switch dive procedures.
  • Bottom or back gas maximum PO2 is 1.4 and a maximum of 1.6 (1.4 to 1.5 recommended) for extended no stop diving.
  • When divers are switching gases, they must use a multi-gas switch computer.
  • Divers certify to use air, nitrox, oxygen and there is a trimix option with a maximum END/EAD of maximum 30 metres/100 foot.

PREREQUISITES

  • The diver must be a minimum of 16 years old and a certified diver for at least 3 months.
  • They should be a Certified RAID Explorer 30 or RAID Advanced 35 diver or equivalent.
  • Divers must be certified as RAID Nitrox and RAID Deep 40 diver or equivalent and at least 20 logged hours underwater or 40 dives using open circuit.


OPEN CIRCUIT DECO 50

eco 50 has been written with the new technical diver in mind. This means that divers wanting to participate in technical open circuit programs and who are certified in Deep 40, Master Rescue and Nitrox may bypass the Deco 40 program.The course has modern, graphic rich manuals which explore and introduce the most modern information and techniques. A modern skill set places emphasis on managing skill mastery while neutrally buoyant. The skills themselves have been up as well with desire being that RAID divers will use a similar equipment configuration and perform the skills in a similar fashion. The manuals also cater to the sidemount diver wanting to become Deco 50 diver.The program overview is as follows:

  • Dive to a maximum depth of 50 metres/165 feet.
  • Complete a maximum of 30 minutes accelerated decompression.
  • Divers may only utilise a single decompression gas.
  • Divers may use up to 100% oxygen for accelerated decompression.
  • Divers must use a multi-gas switch computer.
  • Bottom or back gas maximum PO2 is 1.4 and a maximum of 1.6 for accelerated decompression gas.
  • Certified to use air, nitrox, oxygen and trimix with a maximum END/EAD of maximum 30 metres/100 feet.

PREREQUISITES

  • Be a minimum of 18 years old.
  • Be a certified diver for at least 3 months.
  • Be certified as a RAID Nitrox, Deep 40 and Master Rescue Diver (or equivalent), and have experience in Navigation and Night/Restricted Visibility diving.
  • Must have logged at least 5 hours between 27-40 m.
  • Submit current Rescue Breathing, CPR Training and Oxygen Provider certificates.
  • Have logged 50 hours underwater or 75 dives using open circuit.
  • Documented proof of prerequisite requirements must be presented to the Dive Centre for approval prior to any in water training.