Tech Diving

Oak Hill Scuba is "The Tech Shop" in central Texas. We are the only shop that has the compressor, booster pumps and fill station to handle ALL of your mixed gas needs. We offer a steady line of Scuba Diver and Advanced Scuba Diver classes. Additional classes are scheduled periodically throughout the year. Come by the shop or call us to schedule your next training class

Oak Hill Scuba is a certified NAUI, PADI, and TDI dive shop. Stop by to learn more today!

Intro To Tech

The Introduction to Technical Diving (Intro to Tech) Course is designed as a bridge from the recreational diver to the rigors and discipline of technical diving, and is a great preparatory course if you are considering technical diver training or interested in streamlining your equipment configuration. You will learn about dive planning, physics and physiology, planned decompression, and equipment as it applies to technical diving. You instructor will also teach you about gear configurations and streamlining to get you ready for technical diving.

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Advanced Nitrox

The Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox from EAN 21 through EAN 100 to a depth of 130 feet during dives that do not require staged decompression. This class is typically taught in conjunction with the Decompression Procedures course. Together, they are considered the foundation for your tech diving career and are a prerequisite for many of the more advanced technical courses. Advanced Nitrox is also a great course for those wanting to extend their bottom times in shallower depths such as scientific diver. The course covers topics including:

• Equipment Requirements
• Dive Planning
• Oxygen Tracking
• Gas Blending Methods

Decompression Procedures

As sport divers planned decompression is not something that we do or have been taught. The Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal sport diving limits. Your Instructor will provide you with valuable information and skills, among the topics covered are:

• Equipment Requirements
• Equipment Configuration
• Decompression Techniques
• Decompression Breathing Gasses
• Gas Management
• Contingency Planning

The Decompressions Procedures and the Advanced Nitrox courses form the foundation of all other technical courses. After these two courses and some additional experience, the stage has been set for you to move onto more challenging technical levels.

Trimix

As your motivation to explore progresses you will find that you may want to go deeper to dive that wreck that is part of history or that cave system that you have read so much about. One of the major limiting factors of going deeper is narcosis; Oak Hill Scuba's Trimix Diver course shows how to minimize the effects of narcosis by adding helium to offset the nitrogen in your breathing gas. While taking the Trimix Diver course your Instructor will teach you how to plan and execute dives utilizing as little as 18 percent oxygen with a blend of helium appropriate for the planned depth. The course covers topics and skills like

• Dive team planning
• Gas matching
• Cylinder labeling
• Surface marker deployment
• Equipment configuration
• Thermal protection options

Advanced Trimix

Oak Hill Scuba's Advanced Trimix Diver course is the top level of training for open circuit divers wishing to dive to depths as deep as 330 feet utilizing hypoxic levels of oxygen (below 17 percent). This course is perhaps one of the most informative and challenging and upon completion you are among some of the most elite divers. Your Instructor will teach you

• Equipment Management
• Multiple stage cylinder labeling and placement
• Complex decompression planning and contingency planning
• Dive team awareness and communication
• Gas monitoring and management
• Use of travel gasses

Gas Blender

Filling a scuba tank with Nitrox or Trimix takes equal parts math and science. The Gas Blender class teaches you tank prep, blending methods, safe practices, gas analysis and more.

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There are additional technical specialties available, including:

• Heliox Diver
• Extended Range / Deep Air
• Advanced Wreck Diver
• Cavern Diver
• Cave Diver
• Advanced Cave
• Closed Circuit Rebreather