COURSES & FUN DIVES

Deep Specialty

IDR 4.500.000

During the Deep Diver Specialty, you’ll learn how to plan and conduct deep dives to 40 meters, manage your air supply and how to identify and manage narcosis. You’ll also learn about safety considerations and buoyancy control at depth.

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Description

days – 4 dives – explore the deep with a Deep Specialty Course on Gili Meno

Overview Deep Specialty Course

There’s something exciting and mysterious about deep dives that attracts divers. After your first few dives, you might want to explore dive sites that are slightly deeper than 18 meters. Many exciting dive sites lie in deeper waters and the Deep Specialty Course will teach you how to get to 40 meters safely and with confidence.

Being a deep diver might open new opportunities for deeper wrecks, coral-encrusted walls, reefs, shark dives and many other exhilarating options.

The fun part

With the deep specialty course you will gain the knowledge, skills and techniques needed to conduct dives to 40 meters. You have probably learned about diving physics and physiology during your open water course but deep diving is where is really matters:

As you drop below 18 meters, your air consumption increases and your no-compression time decreases. Buoyancy declines and you might even begin to feel the effects of nitrogen narcosis. None of these are hard to deal with as long as you know how you can manage them.

Getting narced (diving lingo) is an impairment of your thinking processes caused by breathing nitrogen under pressure. People experience nitrogen narcosis differently. Some describe it as feeling drunk, or being really slow while others become a bit panicked or scared. Narcosis isn’t usually serious or overdramatic and disappears as soon as you ascent.

What you will learn
  • The importance of personal limits and the reasons to dive deep
  • Plan and complete deep dives from 18 to 40 meters (4 dives during the course)
  • Use computers and gas calculations to get the most from your deep dives
  • Safety considerations, buddy contact procedures and buoyancy control
  • Risk factors and decompression tables review
  • The physics of diving deep: Your instructor will make sure you aware of pressure, potential cold, colours and other factors you might encounter on dives to 40 meters
  • Special equipment for deep dives
  • How to recognize and manage nitrogen narcosis and your susceptibility to nitrogen narcosis.
  • Emergency decompression procedures
  • Why flying (or climbing Mt Rinjani) after deep diving is not a great idea

Upon completion, you will earn the Deep Diving Specialty certification.

This specialty course also count towards the prestigious Master (Scuba) Diver rating.

Content and Schedule

The Deep Diving Specialty will teach you all you need to dive to depths between 18 and 40 meters, through a mixture of academic sessions and four open water dives. Our courses are flexible and we will be able to adjust to your travel schedule but in general, please expect your diving days to look like the following schedule.

Tipp: It is also great to combine the deep specialty with the Nitrox Specialty to get more out of the dives to 30 meters.

Day 1 (08:30 – 16:30)

  • 1st dive: Theory, dive, debrief, relax – if you have dived the previous days, we will start the day with your first proper deep dive.
  • 2nd dive: Repeat – just not to 40 meters 🙂

Day 2 (08:30 – 16:30)

  • Two dives await – one of them to 40 meters, whereas the other one is more shallow. We will also cover some more theory in between the dives
  • Time to celebrate your new deep diver reality

Details (for those who like to know more)

Would you like to know what other speciality programs we teach? Or you wonder why you should consider doing a specialty course?

Please note: Our courses are conducted in accordance with PADI standards.

Continue the Adventure

Reach a next level in diving with a dive specialty program at Divine Divers Gili Meno. Specialties are a great way to improve your dive knowledge, skills as well as learn new ones. Good thing is – you can concentrate on specific underwater activities, that really interest you. Popular specialties include Nitrox Diving, Deep Diving and Wreck Diving but there is a myriad of interesting specialty courses that might tickle your interest: