TDI Extended Range!

[Abyss Divers]

How much is a course in Extended Range in the UK?

[Narked@50]

Approx £200-300 depending on TDI/BSAC (school/club)

James

[Abyss Divers]

Excellent Thanx!!

[Mark Powell]

I charge 250 which I think is about average.

However, I would say that you need to think about why you want to do Extended Range. Extended Range as Deep Air is not a great idea and I personallly don't teach it deeper than 45m. Below 45m you really need to be thinking about Trimix.

ERD combined with or as a first step to Introductory Trimix or as a skills tune up before Introductory Trimix is fine.

[Abyss Divers]

I am going to take the PADI Tec Rec and learn Trimix, I have done deep air dives for years and a lot of people have told me as soon as you learned Trimix you will never dive past 20 meters on air! We do dives to 65 meters on Air sitting on mega long decostops on EANx 40 still doing the time for Air, the dives are mainly multilevel profiles with the mainpart on 20 - 30 meters and only a few minutes on 60 meters starting with the first stop on 20 meters where we switch to 40%. We normally get a total time around 65 - 75 minutes with 20+ minutes on 3 meters! I do like it and I know its silly but it is something about the Narcosis I can't explain! We are doing these dives in crystal clear waters and you don't feel the depth as deep as you would do in the UK!
We have used Gap-RGBM software for planning!

[wreckweasel]

Originally Posted by Abyss Divers

I am going to take the PADI Tec Rec and learn Trimix

Alright, so I bit because of the agency... and maybe its a bit unfair, Im sure there's some great PADI mix instructors...

All Im going to say is make sure you learn from an instructor who actively dives this stuff in anger. Not just someone who happens to have the tickets....

Good luck

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by zaksherlock

All Im going to say is make sure you learn from an instructor who actively dives this stuff in anger. Not just someone who happens to have the tickets....

Good luck

I second that

ATB

Mark Chase

[Phoenix]

I did TDI Adv Nitrox, Deco Proc's & ER with an Instructor who had done no more of these dives than the minimum number to get his Instr. rating.

We both subsequently undertook a Trimix course with an ex-German navy Instructor and the difference was marked. I could tell that my TDI Instructor was learning every bit as much as I was from the more experienced Instructor.

I took the decision to take TDI courses with the inexperienced guy on the basis that I know him to be a very good diver (we are both PADI Instr.) and that he needed the money (bad grounds for decision). With hindsight I would not have gone down this route.

I was also unimpressed that TDI were chasing my friend to undertake IT training when he only had 4 certs (admittedly he wouldn't be rated without more) and was pleased to see he declined due to his inexperience.

Moral: Find a good Instructor, pay what it takes, if you can't afford the training or the equipment then you are probably out of your depth (literally)

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

I second that

ATB

Mark Chase