Jade Scuba Adventures (360-233-6825) can assist you with building these skills & pairing the right gear with them!
Intro to Tech is a topic you will see us frequently discussing in the first half of 2025. Tech diving is not just about going deeper for longer. In fact, many Pacific Northwest divers are already using strategies and gear that would be considered “tech-level” in other waters.
In this series, we will delve into how to advance as a “tech-level” diver such as perfecting skills like buoyancy & trim, propulsion, dive planning, improving rescue skills & use of alternative gases. To support their improved skills, serious cold-water divers also need redundancy in their gear, exposure protection appropriate for our conditions & gear to plan your dives.
Why would divers choose to use a gas besides compressed air?
- Nitrox is the most common enriched air blend
- Increasing the amount of oxygen in a diver’s air blend results in many positive changes to their diving experience like increasing your time at depth, lowering your risk for DCS, and shortening your surface interval between repetitive dives. Reach out to Ashley to schedule your SDI Computer Nitrox class!
- Nitrox divers are required to test each cylinder prior to diving.
- The easy-to-use Palm O2 is the smallest unit on the market, perfect for traveling!
- Does not sense for helium or other gases.
- The battery and sensor are user replaceable.
- Available in-stock at Jade Scuba Adventures.
Why would a diver need a carbon monoxide detector?
- Carbon monoxide in a diver’s breathing gas can be difficult to detect until it has serious consequences.
- Compressors filter air from their environment to pressurize into scuba cylinders.
- If there is carbon monoxide in the environment of a compressor (most common when there is inadequate ventilation of a nearby engine), this containment can enter the cylinder.
- At depth, carbon monoxide can cause symptoms in divers ranging from headaches and confusion to seizures and loss of consciousness.
- Beyond working with a reputable dive shop, the best way to avoid the consequences of carbon monoxide poisoning is to test your cylinders with the small, user-friendly Palm CO.
- Available in-stock at Jade Scuba Adventures.
What if sidemount, CCR, penetration, cave diving, advanced decompression diving are all on my “must do” list?
- You need the All Trimix 4001 for analyzing gas mixtures with oxygen, nitrogen, and helium.
- One touch calibration.
- Includes temperature, barometric pressure and RH sensors.
- Includes case for portability and travel.
- Large backlit LED display that is easily read even in low light conditions, and which provides additional information such as Maximum Operating Depth calculation.
- Long battery life with 16 hours of use and 15-minute auto-off feature to conserve battery.
- Battery, oxygen, and helium sensors are all user-replaceable.
I’m sold! How do I order one?
Text/call Ashley at 360-233-6825 or email info@jadescubaadventures.com
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