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Looking for your
next adventure? Enjoy the adrenaline rush of deep diving? Then the PADI Deep
Diver Specialty course should be your next step, and Phuket is the perfect
place to take this exciting course. The PADI Deep Diver Specialty allows divers
to extend their depth limit to 40 meters, and teaches them the essential
knowledge and skills to allow them to dive to this depth safely.
The course can be
taken around Phuket, the Similan Islands or Koh Phi Phi , with divers finding
unique environments at depth in each location. The beautiful clear waters
surrounding the granite islands of the Similan's and Racha Noi , offer divers
the ultimate location for taking this course, with opportunities for the divers
to see large pelagic's while on the course. With water temperatures at around
30.C and with underwater visibility often over 30 meters, encounters with Manta
Ray's , Leopard Shark's , Tuna and even Whale Shark's are a realistic possibility
during the course dives.
The PADI Deep
Diver Specialty course is conducted over a minimum of two days, and includes
four open water divers to a maximum depth of 40 meters, with dives being
conducted within the no decompression limit. As with all other PADI courses
students are required to complete a knowledge development section, where they
will complete two knowledge reviews from the PADI Deep Diver Manual.
The course looks
at six specific areas relating to deep diving, they are
1. Planning,
organization, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving
2. Risk factors
and a review of the PADI Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) or wheel.
3. Procedures on
conducting safety stops and emergency decompression procedures.
4. The special
equipment required for deep diving, including descent lines and buoyancy
control considerations. 5. Procedures for flying after diving at high altitude.
6. An
orientation of recompression chambers.
The courses main
aim is to teach students to respect deep diver, and to teach them how to
conduct deep dives safely.
Problems
Associated with Deep Diving
The two main
problems that are associated with deep diving are nitrogen narcosis and air
consumption. Nitrogen narcosis is a problem caused by the increased partial
pressure of nitrogen within your breathing air, this narcosis will effect
different people in different ways, but the main symptoms include
disorientation, and a decrease in awareness. Although many divers joke about
this, and think its a great thing, if unsupervised and allowed to continue, the
effects can be disastrous. Divers suffering from nitrogen narcosis will often
forget to check their air, separate from their buddies, disregard no decompression
times and sometimes in bad cases, remove their regulators from their mouths in
an attempt to breathe underwater like a fish. Although this might seem quite
amusing, the consequences of these actions can be fatal.
The other main
problem associated with diving deeper, is the divers increased air consumption.
At a depth of 40 meters a diver is breathing his air at a rate of 5 times
faster than on the surface. This increased breathing rate can lead to divers
air running low very quickly, and can lead to out of air situations.
During your
course your experienced PADI Instructor will help you understand the danger of
nitrogen narcosis and higher air consumptions, so that you can enjoy the
wonders of deep diving in a safe and controlled manner.
Reasons to Deep
Dive
Allows divers
to observe different types of aquatic life and bottom topography.
. Exploring
deeper ship wrecks.
. Take unique
underwater photography.
. Collect
objects or recover items that have been lost.
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