Dive Indonesia Courses

PADI DEEP DIVER SPECIALTY

When divers socialise and the talk turns to big, high-adventure Indonesia dive adventures, you can count on deep diving to come up. There's no doubt about it, PADI's Deep Diver programme offers you the adventure of a lifetime.

The programme includes four open water dives, which are conducted over at least two days. All your dives will be conducted within the no-decompression limits. During your programme, you'll cover the knowledge, skills and techniques needed for diving deep.

Topics covered include:

• Planning, organisation, procedures, problems and hazards of deep diving;
• Risk factors and decompression-tables review;
• Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures;
• Special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations;
• Procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving;
• Orientation to recompression chambers.

The motives divers have for deep diving can be good ones or poor ones. Deep diving can be a thrill - and that can be good or bad, depending on your approach.

Thrill is a word with many shades of meaning. It can mean sticking your neck out irresponsibly and recklessly, purely for a rush. If that's your idea of fun then please hang up your wetsuit now.. On the other hand, a thrill can be the excitement that comes with doing something potentially hazardous and challenging, but in a way that responsibly manages the risk. There's nothing wrong with deep diving for the reward of extending your personal limits and accomplishments this way, and the best way to do it is through PADI Deep Diver training.

The reason training is important is because our margin for error narrows with depth. That's not really an issue assuming 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. Dive accidents usually result from not one, but several errors that link into a chain leading to disaster. On a deep dive, that chain is much shorter.

Conditions, combined with depth, also affect your risk. In recreational diving, we define deep as 18 metres / 60 feet to no more than 40 metres / 130 feet. But, 30 metres in clear, warm waters may be a swim in kiddies pool compared to 15 metres in a cold, poor visibility current. So, training as a PADI Deep Diver sometimes pays big dividends on surprisingly shallow dives.

If the idea of deep diving excites you, then why not take the PADI Deep Diver course? Not only will you get one step towards your PADI Master Scuba Diver certification, you'll learn how to manage the added risk that comes with deep diving, 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 diver. And, it's a thrill. The good kind.

The core Deep Dive conducted during the Adventures In Diving programme may be counted toward this specialty.

Course Information

Location: Manado - Bunaken - Sulawesi

Boat Dives: 4

Duration: 2 days

Total Price (incl. all taxes): US$ 295 per person

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