Overview
xTek Basics and Rescue
Get Ready: This course provides the fundamental skills you need to take part in other xTek programs. You’ll learn both the equipment and many of the procedures required for decompression diving. The NASE xTek training progression requires a high degree of competency in skills such as equipment handling, buoyancy control, dive planning and teamwork, which this course helps provide. More…
xTek 45
Get Started: This course provides the necessary skills and knowledge for planning and conducting decompression dives to a maximum depth of 45 m/150 ft. Graduates will be able to utilize back gas mixtures of air/nitrox not exceeding a PO2 of 1.4 ATA and utilize oxygen-enriched mixes up to 100 percent for accelerated decompression. This course meets the prerequisites for NASE xTek 60. More…
xTek 60
Go Deeper: This course is designed to provide the additional skills and knowledge for planning and conducting decompression dives to a maximum depth of 60 m/200 ft using helium based mixtures (Trimix). Graduates will be able to utilize both normoxic and hypoxic back gas mixtures not to exceed a PO2 of 1.4 ATA and a PN2 of 2.75 to 3.18 ATA (an approximate END of 24-30 m/80-100 ft). More…
xTek Cave
Cave Training Unlike Any Other: Although the NASE xTek Cave Diver course covers the same topics and skills as any other complete Cave Diver program (and then some), there are important differences, including the fact NASE is the only organization that bases its Cave Diver course on a comprehensive eLearning system, not only affording students greater convenience, but the opportunity to spend more time in the water when they arrive for training. More…