This course is designed to be an introduction to deep diving and to help divers develop the necessary skills, knowledge and techniques to safely participate in deep diving activities up to 40 metres.

• planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of deep diving

• risk factors and decompression-tables review

• safety stops and emergency decompression procedures

• special equipment, descent lines and buoyancy-control considerations

• procedures for flying after diving and high-altitude diving

• orientation to recompression chambers

• certification counts toward the Master Scuba Diver rating