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LSS Service Technician
This classroom certification qualifies trained technicians to perform maintenance and repair on life-support system (LSS) equipment used in closed-circuit rebreathers and other advanced technical diving systems, ensuring safe and reliable operation of critical gas-supply and scrubbing components. You'll train on component disassembly, inspection, maintenance protocols, and reassembly of life-support systems specific to your equipment type (such as scrubber cartridges, oxygen sensors, or gas delivery systems). LSS Service Technician certification enables professional rebreather maintenance and extends equipment lifespan through proper servicing.
Prerequisites
Typically requires prior rebreather experience or professional standing in technical diving industries. Specific certification prerequisites vary by equipment manufacturer and system type. No water-dive requirements.
Standards
What a diver must demonstrate to pass this course — not always published by the certifying agency.
Technicians must demonstrate competency in LSS component inspection, maintenance protocol execution, parts replacement, proper reassembly, and safety verification procedures.
Instructors Teaching This Course
Indonesia
Other locations
Dive Centres Offering This Course
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 IANTD LSS Service Technician
What does IANTD LSS Service Technician training involve?
According to IANTD's published standards: Technicians must demonstrate competency in LSS component inspection, maintenance protocol execution, parts replacement, proper reassembly, and safety verification procedures.
Where can I take IANTD LSS Service Technician?
4 dive centres and 7 instructors in the TecDiveTools directory teach IANTD LSS Service Technician, in Thailand, Indonesia and Mexico. Each is listed further up this page.