The SSI Extended Range Foundations (Discover Technical Diving) program provides you with a workshop environment to improve your skills to a high level using Extended Range Total Diving Systems and procedures. All training dives are completed in a confined water environment at depths less than 12 meters / 40 feet. The intent of the SSI Extended Range Foundations program is to provide divers with a workshop environment to improve their skills to a high level using Extended Range Total Diving Systems and procedures.

The XR Foundations program is designed to improve your buoyancy, trim and propulsion techniques and give a stable platform from which to improve all of your diving. The emphasis on in-water training in the Foundations course results in measurable improvements.

This course will get you ready for limited decompression in the Extended Range Nitrox Course.

Prerequisites:

• Minimum Age: 18
• Certification Prerequisites: Enriched Air Nitrox 40% certification
• SSI Advanced Open Water Diver certification
• Have logged at least 24 dives.
• Open Water Dives: 2 days
• Maximum Training Depth: 12 meters/40 feet

All dives must be completed using one of the following configurations:

• A complete Extended Range Nitrox Total Diving System
• A complete Extended Range Sidemount Total Diving System.