Deep Blue Offers Helium Based Training

[Deep Blue]

Wanted to post some VERY exciting news, Deep Blue Adventures will be offering NAUI technical training effective immediately. NAUI is one of the most respected names in technical training in the world and we are thrilled to be able to offer this training in Milwaukee.

Deep Blue Adventures will be offering training by Gert Grohmann in the following NAUI technical classes effective immediately. These classes are not yet on our schedule, but if you want more information, I am in the process of scheduling these classes for interested parties.

Technical Support Leader (TSL)

Mixed Gas Blender and Oxygen Service Technician

Technical EANx Diver

Decompression Techniques Diver Course

Helitrox

Heliair

For more information on these and the other exciting NAUI technical programs, please see the NAUI Tech website at:



We are especially excited to be able to offer Helitrox and Heliair classes to the Milwaukee dive community. Helitrox is the perfect transition class to learn the benefits of helium below 100 feet. We can train divers with a minimum of 50 dives and a nitrox certification to use helium below 100 feet of depth, and fills are not that much more expensive than standard nitrox. (around $16 for a 95 cubic foot tank of 26/17 or 26% oxygen and 17% helium)

If you are already a decompression certified diver, we can explore to a depth of 150 feet for dive times up to 30 minutes and still be out of the water in around an hour!!! All the while taking advantage of lower narcosis levels and dramatically increasing safety. A 150 foot dive will feel like your are at 117 feet!!!

This gives divers a great way to transition from air diving to trimix diving while gaining experience and dive time along the way. The next step would be heliair, which has a depth limit of 180 feet using ranged tables with less than 21% oxygen and up to 40% helium for their bottom gas.

Finally, for those divers that need to go deeper, we will offer trimix 1, which will allow you dives up to 225 feet using the best mix for that dive. That covers pretty much all of the beautiful wrecks from Door County to Kenosha.

The best part, is that the total cost for the entire progression will not be much more than if you took a trimix class from another store (if you could find one locally) You also have the ability to start diving with all of the advantages of helium in dramatically less time than a complete trimix class would take. You can also develop your experience level so that by the time you finally become a trimix diver, you have the experience and time behind you to be able to do these dives as safely as possible. But you have the ability to "get off of the bus" at whatever level you want, from just using helium to take the edge off of no decompression dives to 130 feet, to using the best mix at 225 feet!!!!

[DRE]

Gert,

will you still be offering TDI training or are you switching primarily to Naui Tec?

[Deep Blue]

We will continue to offer TDI training if we have specific requests for it, but most of our technical training will be through NAUI. Having worked with both programs, the NAUI program and materials are head and shoulders above the TDI stuff.

As always, I still believe that is mostly the instructor that makes or breaks the program, but having top notch materials and an agency that has been doing technial programs for as long as NAUI has, sure helps!!!!