Decompression Diving

Learn how to safely perform a decompression dive while still using your recreational total diving system.

Learn how to safely perform a decompression dive while still using your recreational total diving system.

Become a certified Decompression Diver with SSI

The SSI Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder.

Course Highlights

  • Learn to dive beyond no-decompression limits
  • Plan and conduct dives up to 40 meters deep
  • Use a single decompression cylinder
  • Master advanced dive computer features

What You’ll Learn

  • Effective use of dive computer features:
  • Switching gases
  • Gas integration
  • Time-to-reserve
  • Time-to-surface
  • Planning and executing dives with limited decompression
  • Safe practices for decompression diving

Skills You’ll Develop

  • Using computer functions will become second nature
  • Safely conducting dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning

Certification

Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty certification.

New Opportunities

  • Explore stunning deep dive sites
  • Discover larger wrecks
  • Dive without being restricted by traditional no-decompression limits

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is ideal for experienced divers who want to:

  • Extend their diving capabilities
  • Explore deeper dive sites
  • Spend more time underwater
  • Advance their technical diving skills

Expand Your Diving Adventures!

The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger! Ready to take your diving to the next level? Enroll in the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty course and open up a whole new world of underwater exploration!

Amount of Academic Sessions

4

Amount of Pool/Confined Water Sessions

1

Amount of Open Water Sessions

3

Maximum Training Depth

40 m / 130 ft

Suggested duration (h)

15-20

Certification Prerequisites

Open Water Diver certification, Deep Diving certification, Enriched Air Nitrox 40 certification, Minimum 24 logged dives

SSI Standards

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