Learn to dive in Sussex, Kent and Surrey with Sussex Scuba diving courses

Looking for wrecks or dives sites beyond 18m?

Do you want a more extensive knowledge of diving theory?
Mention a "deep dive" amid a group of divers and watch their reactions. Novice divers who have yet to venture below 18m want to know what it's like. More experienced divers who have been a bit deeper chatter with excitement. Those who have trained to prepare themselves to venture to 40m (the recommended deepest limit of recreational diving), show enthusiasm tempered with respect for the serious nature of safe deeper diving. At any rate, there's certainly something a bit alluring, exciting and mysterious about going "deep".

The purpose of the PADI Deep Diver Course is to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of diving between the depths of 18 and 40m. The PADI Deep Diver course is intended to serve as a safe, supervised introduction to deeper diving within the limits of recreational diving. Course includes one evening academic session, and four open water dives.

The course covers
Deep diving activities and objectives, deep diving definition and limits, developing your personal deep diving depth limit, deep diving equipment and techniques, breathing techniques for deeper diving, anti silting techniques, nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness and re compression chamber overview, examining pressure-affected objects and recording colour changes at depth, practicing navigation at depth, and practicing using emergency breathing equipment .