Deep Diver Course

PADI Deep Diver Course

Are you up for the challenge, discipline, and respect the PADI Deep Diver Specialty represents?

After your first few scuba dives, you soon want to explore a bit deeper. Do you want a more extensive knowledge of diving theory and how to plan and execute deeper dives? There's a lot of fun and a lot to be seen in the 60-130' deep diver range.

The Fun Part

The course is intended to be fun while exposing the Deep Divers to proper dive planning.  The PADI Deep Diver Course will familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of diving between the depths of 60 and 130 feet. The PADI Deep Diver Course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to deeper diving within the limits of recreational diving.

Prerequisites

• PADI Adventure Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
• Minimum age: 15 years old

Get College Credit

You may be able to earn college credit for this course.   Just ask us how.

What You Learn

• Techniques for diving in the deeper  range of 60-130 feet
  Deep scuba diving equipment considerations
• Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four deep dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor
• Develop your personal deep diving depth limit
• Deep diving equipment and techniques,
  
• Nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness and recompression chamber overview
• Examine pressure-affected objects and recording color changes at depth
• Practice navigation at depth
  

Course Includes

• One academic session
• One pool orientation session (as needed)
• Four open water dives
• Tanks, weights
• Certification card
• Open water dives

You Will Need

Special items that are mandatory for this class are:

• Deep Diver Student Kit
• Underwater slate & pencil
• Underwater light
• Compass
• Chemical Light stick or Equivalent
• Underwater Timing Device
• Whistle or other signaling device
• Knife or divers tool

 

Your Next Adventure

Many shipwrecks are often found in deeper water. That’s why the PADI Deep Diver course is a natural companion to the PADI Wreck Diver course. Sometimes you can take these two specialties concurrently.

Other training to consider is the PADI Enriched Air Diver course on your way to PADI Master Scuba Diver.

 

Important Note

For safety, all PADI students must complete a brief medical prior to commencing a course. If none of the listed conditions apply, you sign the form and you’re ready to start. If any of them apply to you, as a safety precaution, a physician must assess the condition as it relates to diving and sign a medical form that confirms that you’re fit to dive, dated within the last 12 months. Click here to view the form.