PADI Deep Diver Course
WHAT TO EXPECT
Some of the greatest sights in the underwater world lay in the deep. Open up a different world of diving by earning your PADI Deep Diver certification. With this course, your depth limits will be expanded to 130 feet. Your PADI certified Deep Diver instructor will guide you in 4 deep dives and show you the techniques and considerations taken when diving deep.
PADI's Deep Diver program offers you a thrilling adventure of a lifetime - going deep to see things others only dream about. 'Thrill' is a word with many meanings. A thrill can be the excitement that comes with doing something challenging, but in a way that responsibly manages the risk.
If the idea of deep diving excites you then take the PADI Deep Diver Specialty course. You'll learn how to manage the added risk that comes with going deep, and how to be prepared for emergencies and errors that can happen. You're likely to find it a rewarding challenge that helps you grow as a scuba diver. And, that's a thrill - the good kind!
The program includes 4 open water dives, which are conducted over at least 2 days. All your dives will be conducted within the no-decompression limits.
During your program, you'll cover the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to dive deep. Topics covered include:
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Planning, organization, procedures, problems and hazards of deep diving;
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Risk factors and decompression-tables review;
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Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures;
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Special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations;
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Procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving;
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Orientation to recompression chambers.
The reason PADI Deep Diver training is important is that our margin for error narrows with depth. That's not really an issue provided absolutely nothing goes wrong and you make no mistakes. As we go deeper, we use air faster and have shorter no stop limits. The surface is much farther away and harder to reach. Scuba accidents usually result from not one, but several errors that link into a chain leading to disaster. On a deep dive, that chain is very, very short.
Conditions, combined with depth, also affect your risk. In recreational diving, we define 'deep' as 18 meters to no more than 40 meters. But, 30 meters in warm, clear water can be a breeze compared to 12 meters in a cold, low-viz current. So, training as a PADI Deep Diver sometimes pays big dividends on surprisingly shallow dives too.
WHAT IS INVOLVED
There is no classroom involved with this course. You will go over knowledge reviews, discuss the content of your student materials, and preview and debrief before and after each dive at the dive site.
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Self-Study – PADI Deep Diver Manual, DVD, and knowledge reviews must be completed before the dives.
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Deep Dives – Under the supervision of your instructor, you will perform skills at depth in a series of four open water dives.