RAID Open Water 20
If you have made it this far in the RAID training system there are some things that are certain:
You clearly love diving
Your skillset is solid
You are an explorer!
The thrill of pushing the envelope and becoming an explorer is what drives many of us to become divers, and the Deco 50 course forms the basis and essential skills and knowledge needed to become an explorer.
Deco 50 has been written with the new technical diver in mind.
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.
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Course Overview
Learn to SCUBA dive with Bay City Scuba, Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula’s premier diver training facility and jump into the world of scuba diving with the RAID, worlds leading online diver-training provider. Learning to dive is not only fun and exciting, it’s a great way to meet new friends and experience the underwater world.
You must be:
- 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 an open circuit.
- Documented proof of prerequisite requirements must be presented to the Dive Centre for approval prior to any in-water training.
- To view a demonstration of some of the skills you will master during the Deco 50 program take a look at the buoyancy control and skill demonstrations presented by RAID International Training Director, Paul Toomer. Participation and success in the Deco 50 will enable you to achieve a similar level of control.
Bay City Scuba will supply all your hardware during your open water course which you can hire.
You will need to bring the following soft wear equipment to your practical component of this course.
Single Back Mount Configuration:
- Single cylinder of adequate capacity (11litres or above)
- DIN First stage
- One Standard regulator with 2m / 7ft hose with piston clip for clipping off regulator when stowed or standard short hose configuration.
- One Back up regulator wit standard length hose fitted with a neck bungee
- One low pressure inflator hose for BCD
- One low pressure inflator hose for Dry Suit
- One SPG with piston clip for attaching to D’Ring when stowed
- (When using any helium mixes, an off board dry suit inflation system must be used or bailout gas must be used for suit inflation)
BCD must be adequate, has the capacity to carry a side sling cylinder and must have adequate lift.
Twinset Equipment Configuration:
- Twin Cylinder with an isolation manifold and DIN valves.
- Minimum10 liter cylinders (12 liter is preferred)
Right-hand post regulator:
- DIN First stage, primary regulator with 2m / 7ft hose with piston clip for clipping off regulator when stowed. This regulator must be HOG LOOPED
- One low pressure inflator hose for BCD or Dry Suit depending on harness configuration
- One SPG with 15cm / 6 inch HP hose
If using Transmitter style computers, transmitter to be placed on this side.
Left-hand post regulator:
- DIN First stage, One Back up regulator wit standard length hose fitted with a neck bungee
- One low pressure inflator hose for Dry Suit or BCD depending on harness configuration
- One SPG with 15cm / 6 inch HP hose
(When using any helium mixes, an off board dry suit inflation system must be used or bailout gas must be used for suit inflation)
Side Sling Cylinder Configuration:
- One suitable DIN regulator with SPG on a 15cm / 6 inch HP hose that conforms and is compliant with the gas being used and any local laws.
- One Primary regulator with a 1m / 3ft hose
- One rigging kit
- One Cylinder (minimum 5.7 litre / 40 cft, recommended 11 liter 80 cft)
Sidemount Equipment Configuration:
- Cylinders with DIN valves and preferably left and right side valves adequate for sidemount diving.
- Minimum 10 litre, 232 bar cylinders
- 12 litre, 232 bar cylinders prefered
- 7 litre, 300 bar cylinders are possible (consult with your instructor)
- Appropriate sidemount rigging kits on all cylinders
- Sidemount harness must be adequate, has the capacity to carry a side sling cylinder and must have adequate lift.
General Diving Equipment and Accessories:
- 1 x primary mixed gas (Helium capable) dive computer if completing and mixed gas programs
- 1x secondary mixed gas dive computer or dive timer with gauge mode
- 1 x wet-notes
- 1 x wrist slate
- 1 x Orange SMB
- 1 x Yellow SMB
- 1 x 40m minimum spool or reel
- 1 x 30m spool
- 1 x 15-20m spool
- 4 x double ended Piston clips
- 2 x cutting devices (sensible knife or line cutters no massive Rambo knives)
- 1 x Primary Mask
- 1 x Backup mask (must fit and be useable)
- 1 Primary torch that has sufficient illumination for signaling buddy in low light conditions)
- 2 Back-up torches
- 1 Suitable exposure suit (drysuit, undergarments, semidry or wetsuit depending on water temperature)
- Smartphone, Tablet or Laptop with Decompression software (Vplanner, Baltic Deco, GAP etc)
Talk with your instructor as to what is the best suited for your needs!!!
Access or posses Oxygen/ Helium analyser for program
Talk with your instructor as to what is the best suited for your needs!!!