SSI Extended Range Foundations – Your Gateway to Technical Diving

Perfect Your Skills & Prepare for Technical Diving

The SSI Extended Range Foundations Course is specifically designed to enhance your diving fundamentals and prepare you for advanced technical diving. Whether you’re new to technical diving or looking to sharpen your existing skills, this course builds a robust foundation in buoyancy, trim, propulsion techniques, and emergency procedures—essential for safe and effective technical diving.

As an optional starting point for the entire SSI XR pathway, this course ensures you’re confident, prepared, and capable of progressing to more advanced levels of technical diving.

Why Choose the SSI Extended Range Foundations Course?

Technical diving demands impeccable diving skills and discipline. The course helps you master essential dive techniques, enabling you to:

• Perfect Buoyancy & Trim – Achieve precise underwater control and streamline your diving posture.

• Develop Technical Diving Skills – Learn advanced propulsion methods (frog kick, back kick, helicopter turns), essential for wreck penetration, cave diving, and trimix diving.

• Enhance Safety Awareness – Practise critical emergency procedures, including gas management, valve drills, and SMB deployment.

• Progress Confidently – Build a solid base for progressing to SSI Extended Range Nitrox, Trimix, and other technical diving courses.

• Optimise Equipment Configuration – Learn proper setup and management of twinsets, sidemount configurations, and stage cylinders.

Ideal for both recreational divers seeking advanced skills and aspiring technical divers, this course boosts your confidence, capability, and safety underwater.

What’s Included in the SSI Extended Range Foundations Course?

Knowledge Development

• Technical Diving Theory – Gas management, dive planning, and team diving concepts.

• Equipment Essentials – Twinset and sidemount configuration, regulators, wings, and stage cylinder setups.

• Risk Management & Safety – Emergency scenarios, redundancy procedures, and diving problem-solving skills.

Practical Training & Skills Development

• Confined Water Training (4 dives) – Practise and refine buoyancy, trim, propulsion techniques, valve drills, SMB deployment, and teamwork.

• Skills Mastery – Conduct dives in technical gear, mastering fundamental technical diving skills to high SSI standards.

What Can You Do After the Course?

After successful completion, you’ll be fully prepared to pursue further SSI technical training, such as:

• SSI Extended Range Nitrox – Dives up to 40 metres using Nitrox blends.

• SSI Extended Range Trimix – Expand your limits with Trimix dives up to 45 metres.

• SSI Technical Extended Range – Explore deeper dive sites beyond 55 metres with advanced Trimix training.

SSI Extended Range Foundations Course Requirements

• Minimum Age: 16 Years

• Certification Level: SSI Open Water Diver or equivalent

• Minimum Logged Dives: 24 dives (recommended)

• The course may be conducted in sidemount or on CCR, provided the diver is already fully certified and qualified in the chosen configuration.

Duration & Training Schedule

• 4 Confined Water Dives

• Course Duration: Typically completed in 2-3 days

• Flexible schedule to accommodate your availability

What’s Included?

• Professional instruction from SSI Extended Range Instructors

• Certification processing upon successful course completion

• Use of technical diving gear (twinsets, sidemount equipment, regulators, wings, stages)

Not Included in the SSI Extended Range Foundations Course

• SSI ER Foundations digital learning materials (purchased separately)

• Personal diving gear (mask, fins, exposure suits—available for rent if required)

Prepare for Technical Diving Today

The Extended Range Foundations Course is an optional first step into technical diving. Master critical skills, enhance your safety awareness, and build the confidence needed to tackle advanced dive training.

Contact Us Today – Begin your journey into technical diving with SSI Extended Range Foundations!