You will start your training by looking at the reasons for deep diving and the importance for knowing your personal limits. You’ll also learn about:
- Specialized deep diving equipment.
- Deep dive planning
- Managing your gas supply and dealing with gas narcosis
- Safety considerations for deep diving
The PADI Deep Diver Speciality includes four open water dives to a maximum of 40m. The course includes theory covering the planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving, risk factors and decompression-tables, review safety stops and emergency decompression procedures, special equipment, descent lines, buoyancy-control considerations, procedures for flying after diving and an orientation to recompression chambers.
