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BSAC ADVANCED NITROX COURSE

AIM

To introduce BSAC Sports Divers to the meticulous dive planning and practical skills required when diving and decompressing using enriched Nitrox mixtures. To monitor time spent at different depths tracking different partial pressures of oxygen in order to avoid oxygen toxicity.

DURATION

Two Days.

ENTRY GRADE

BSAC Sports Diver + 20 dives since qualifying.

BSAC Nitrox Diver

Certificate of Fitness to Dive.

COURSE

8 Classroom Sessions

1 Theory Assessment

2 Dives

SYLLABUS

Day 1

Assemble, Introductions, Administration

1. Classroom Lesson: ANT1 Introduction

• Course aims
• Advantages and disadvantages of Nitrox as a diving and deco gas

2. Classroom Lesson: ANT2 Pressure and Nitrox mixes
• Dalton's Law

• Calculating ppO2
• Maximum Operating Depth and Nitrox mix

3. Classroom Lesson: ANT3 Nitrogen and Nitrox Diving

• BSAC Nitrox Decompression Tables
• Nitrogen Narcosis

• Decompression - good practice, equipment
• Carbon Dioxide Toxicity

4. Classroom Lesson: ANT4 Oxygen and Human Physiology

• Effects of Oxygen

• CNS & Whole Body Toxicity
• Monitoring Oxygen uptake

5. Classroom Lesson: ANT5 Equipment for Nitrox diving

• Decompression equipment and configuration
• Dive cylinders
• Regulators
• Other diving equipment
• Oxygen Service

6. Classroom Lesson: ANT6 Nitrox Mixing and Analysing

• Ways to Mix / Blend Nitrox
• Advantages / disadvantages
• Practical Gas Analysing

7. Classroom Lesson: ANT7 Dive Organisation & Management

• Dive Marshalling
• Pairing divers
• Decompression planning

• Accident management
• Dive planning

8. Theory Assessment: ANTA Theory Assessment

9. Classroom: ANT8 Open Forum

• Course debrief

Day 2
10. Dive: AND1 Nitrox Dive 1

11. Dive: AND2 Nitrox Dive 2


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