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Deep Diver Specialty

Overview

The purpose of the PADI Deep Diver specialty course is to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of diving between the
depths of 18 metres to 40 metres. The Deep Diver specialty course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to deeper diving within the limits of recreational scuba diving. Topics covered will be:

1. planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving
2. risk factors and decompression-tables review
3. safety stops and emergency decompression procedures
4. special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations
5. procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving
6. orientation to re-compression chambers

Prerequisites

1. Be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another training organisation similar to that of a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.)
2. Be 15 years of age or older.

Objectives

A. To develop the student's theoretical knowledge of deep diving.
B. To enable the student to plan, organize and make no-decompression dives between the depths of 18 metres to 40 metres.

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course, the PADI Deep Diver Specialty certification card is awarded.
Plan, organize, make and log open water, no-decompression dives between the depths of 18 metres to 40 metres in conditions generally comparable to, or better than, those you were trained in.
Apply for the rating of Master Scuba Diver if you are a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certificate from another organisation and a PADI Rescue Diver (or have a qualifying certification from another organisation) with certification in four other PADI Specialty ratings (in addition to PADI Deep Diver).