Sport Mixed Gas Diver (50m)

SAC’s Sport Mixed Gas Diver course is a great way to take your diving to deeper depths with greater safety and awareness.

This first step in your open-circuit mixed-gas diving training is designed to ease you into the world of technical diving. You will increase your awareness and safety by minimising the undesirable effects of narcosis and increased gas density seen in deeper air diving.

I wanted to be able to dive further to reach wreck sites that I hadn’t been able to before and the Sports Mixed Gas course was the way to go. I can now safely plan a dive with a long ascent time and really enjoy the deeper wrecks that I’d had my eye on for a while.

- Michael Jenneson, Guildford SAC

The Sport Mixed Gas Diver course introduces an experienced Accelerated Decompression Procedures (ADP) diver to the use of trimix as a breathing gas. You will become qualified to dive such mixes to depths of up to 50m using a twin-set and single stage cylinder.

To enrol on the Sport Mixed Gas Diver Course you must be 18 years or older. You must have already successfully completed a BSAC Sport Diver course with a 35m depth certification and a BSAC ADP course (or have equivalent certification from BSAC as an Advanced Nitrox Diver, or from another recognised training agency).

You should be proficient at diving, with say 60 or more logged dives, of which 10 should have been at depths of between 30m and 35m.

After completing Sport Mixed Gas Diver and consolidating your skills, your options for deeper expedition diving significantly expands.

You can develop your open-circuit deeper diving skills to 60m as an Explorer Mixed Gas Diver (60m).
You can develop your diving skills further by learning how to be a Closed Circuit Rebreather Diver.
You could develop specific skills to expand your diving interests further, including technical and logistical courses such as Compressor Operation and Mixed Gas Blender. Check out the Skill Development Courses (SDCs) you can get involved in.
You could sign up for BSAC’s Instructor Foundation Course (IFC) to become an Assistant Diving Instructor.
Already an Open Water Instructor, or above? You could hone your skills to become a Technical Instructor and join your regional team.

Sports Mixed Gas Diver – 25,000 baht, (diver must have complete advanced Nitrox course)