The purpose of both the Chamber Dry Dive and the Recompression Chamber Awareness Distinctive Specialty is to provide a safe and well-supervised introduction to a Hyperbaric recompression chamber facility. It is designed to familiarise divers to the facilities available, the procedures, knowledge, problems and hazards associated with a recompression chamber and the possible treatment therein.
Based on this we have booked a "Dry Dive" at the Whipps Cross University hospital in Leytonstone Click here for directions. The idea is that we get a tour of the facility for an hour or so and they explain more about what DCI is and what they do to cure it. After this we are put into the chamber and taken to 40m. We do a few tests to test our reactions etc. It is highly likely that we will all get narked. But it is done in a safe environment. After this we are put on pore 02 and brought to the surface. You can get to log this as a dive but you will need to bring your computer. It gets put in a bucket of water so that it can be activated and log the depth !!!
The cost of this course/experience is £40. If anybody would like to convert this to the PADI Recompression Chamber Awareness specialty there will be an additional charge of £16 for the PIC Card.
The session has been booked for 9.30m am on Sunday 3rd February
Please be aware that this is a working chamber and if an emergency occurs while we are there any patient would take preference. We would of course get a refund.
This should not only be a very informative session but it should be a lot of fun. Places are limited to just 8 people. The only fair way to do this is to give the places to the first people who can get the full amount to us (we need to pay in advance)
Requirements
Prerequisite certification: PADI Open water Diver (or equivalent certification with another organisation).
- Minimum age requirement: 16 years of age.
- Complete a UK Sports Diver Medical form.
- Proof of Qualification.
- Divers Logbook.
- Computers/Depth gauges may be taken on the chamber dive in a bucket of water.
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