Start technical diving with SSI’s comprehensive range of programs, covering all options like Open-Circuit and Rebreather Diving as well as Sidemount. Become the best of the best and experience the thrill of diving deep reefs and wrecks, exploring caves, and enjoying extended bottom times using Trimix.

Choose from the entire range of SSI Extended Range programs and improve your skills and knowledge to the highest level. Go farther, deeper, and beyond with SSI’s technical diving programs!

• Sidemount Diving
• Decompression Diving
• Extended Range Foundations
  
• Extended Range Sidemount
• Extended Range Nitrox
• Extended Range (with or without trimix)
• Technical Extended Range 
• Extended Range Wreck
• Technical Wreck

 With two tanks on your side and no heavy tank on your back, you’ll be more comfortable in the water and will find your streamlining and trim improve effortlessly. By using less energy you may reduce your gas consumption so you can make the most of your dive time. With better buoyancy control, easier access to your valves, and more redundancy as well, sidemount diving offers safety and peace of mind. This is the best sidemount diving course to discover and enjoy the enticing advantages of this dive style. You learn all the skills and knowledge you need to safely and comfortably dive with a single or two-cylinder sidemount equipment configuration.

 Cost: $600.00

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives   ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration, time-to-reserve, and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning.

  Cost: $350.00

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Extended Range Foundations program provides you with an opportunity to enhance your advanced diving skills in a workshop environment. Learn more about using tec diving gear with any total diving system you are certified to use and build upon your basic skill set to master buoyancy, trim, finning techniques, positioning, and communication. The Extended Range Foundations program provides supplementary training to existing certifications to increase your confidence and in-water control.

 Cost: $300.00

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

Exploring overhead environments like caves and wrecks is an exciting endeavor. However, squeezing traditional dive equipment into the tight spaces found within these areas can be challenging. Improving your diver trim and streamlining by using a sidemount configuration allows you to explore more constricted places than ever before. The Extended Range Sidemount program trains you to dive in a sidemount configuration, and the techniques required to use multiple stage cylinders carried for decompression diving efficiently and effectively. 

Cost: $500.00 ($250 if already an SSI Recreational Sidemount Diver).*

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Extended Range Nitrox program provides a thorough introduction to the concepts, techniques, and procedures required for decompression diving with nitrox. Designed as either a stand-alone program or a stepping-stone to become an SSI Extended Range Trimix diver, this enriched air diving program provides foundational skills that are the basis for all future technical programs. Using either a sidemount or twinset configuration, this program prepares you to plan and conduct limited decompression dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters. In addition, this advanced program will teach you the techniques and procedures for using breathing gases up to 100% oxygen for decompression.

 Cost: $600.00

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Technical Extended Range Trimix diving program builds upon skills and techniques learned as an SSI Extended Range Trimix Diver. During this Extended Range diving program, you will go beyond the no-decompression limit by increasing your dive depth and duration. Using either a sidemount or twinset configuration, the Technical Extended Range Trimix gas diving program provides avid underwater explorers with the training necessary to independently plan and conduct mixed gas unlimited decompression dives to a maximum depth of up to 60 meters.

 Cost: $600 (nitrox)/$800 (trimix).* Divers who complete the Extended Range Nitrox course may receive credit at the discretion of the instructor.

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Technical Extended Range Trimix diving program builds upon skills and techniques learned as an SSI Extended Range Trimix Diver. During this Extended Range diving program, you will go beyond the no-decompression limit by increasing your dive depth and duration. Using either a sidemount or twinset configuration, the Technical Extended Range Trimix gas diving program provides avid underwater explorers with the training necessary to independently plan and conduct mixed gas unlimited decompression dives to a maximum depth of up to 60 meters.

 Cost: $650 (nitrox)/$1000 (trimix).*

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving program provides all you need to plan and conduct wreck penetration dives within the daylight zone to depths shallower than 40 meters. Learn to use specialized wreck diving equipment, gas management concepts, and buddy team skills to safely conduct wreck penetration dives. As an Extended Range Wreck Diver, you will be able to go further into shipwrecks than ever before, opening up a whole new world of exciting exploration.

 Cost: $450 plus charter fees (students are responsible for instructor charter fees).

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).

The SSI Technical Wreck Diving course provides all you need to conduct complex wreck penetration dives. Using a sidemount, twinset, or rebreather configuration you will increase your technical dive skills and learn high-level buoyancy control, finning techniques, line laying, the use of lights, lost line, lost light, and lost diver procedures. Earn this challenging and rewarding wreck diver certification and push yourself to the limits while increasing your technical dive skills.

Cost: $600 plus charter fees (students are responsible for instructor charter fees).

Contact Tec Instructor Phil Tobin at tobinp68@yahoo.com or (847) 927-5126 to schedule your Tec Course

*Fees do not include gas costs or the cost of boat charters, the student is responsible for theirs and the instructor’s charter fee.  If dives need to be repeated a $75/dive surcharge will be added for nitrox dives ($125/dive for trimix dives).