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Advanced Decompression Instructor
For RAID Decompression Instructors ready to teach advanced decompression to 50 metres using helium-based mixed gases and mandatory decompression stops up to 30 minutes. Instructor candidates learn to guide students through complex gas management, advanced dive planning, and extended decompression execution on both twinset and sidemount configurations. This course transforms certified decompression instructors into advanced technical educators, preparing them to teach the skills required for deep technical wreck and cave diving at the next level of technical instruction.
Prerequisites
Certified and current RAID Decompression Instructor. Contact RAID Dive Center for full enrollment requirements and experience standards.
Standards
What a diver must demonstrate to pass this course — not always published by the certifying agency.
Demonstrate advanced teaching of complex gas management, multi-decompression gas procedures, extended decompression stop protocols, twinset and sidemount configuration management, and assessment of student decompression diving competence.
Instructors Teaching This Course
Thailand
Dive Centres Offering This Course
Thailand
We're still building out the directory country by country, so this list isn't every instructor or dive centre teaching it in the world — more locations are coming soon.
Common questions about RAID Advanced Decompression Instructor
What are the prerequisites for RAID Advanced Decompression Instructor?
RAID's standards require: Certified and current RAID Decompression Instructor. Contact RAID Dive Center for full enrollment requirements and experience standards.
What does RAID Advanced Decompression Instructor training involve?
According to RAID's published standards: Demonstrate advanced teaching of complex gas management, multi-decompression gas procedures, extended decompression stop protocols, twinset and sidemount configuration management, and assessment of student decompression diving competence.
Where can I take RAID Advanced Decompression Instructor?
1 dive centre and 1 instructor in the TecDiveTools directory teach RAID Advanced Decompression Instructor, in Thailand. Each is listed further up this page.