This course is designed to be an introduction to deep diving and to help the student diver develop the necessary skills, knowledge and techniques to safely participate in deep diving activities.

Upon completing of course, divers with PADI Deep Diver Specialty rating will be able to dive safely to the recreational depth of 40 metres.

This course is also the pre-requisite for DSAT Tech Diver

This course covers the knowledge, skills and techniques for deeper diving.
To conduct a Deep Diver course, the following is to be included:

1. Planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems
   and hazards of deep diving
   
2. Risk factors and decompression-tables review
   
3. Safety stops and emergency decompression procedures
   
4. Special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations
   
5. Procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving
   
6. Orientation to recompression chambers