New Deep Diving Course:

BSAC Thailand is pleased to announce the release of this new Deep Diving Skill Development Course. This course is aimed at both BSAC divers and divers from other dive agencies that are interested in conducting deep dives, deep diving procedures and deep dive planning. The Deep Diving course compliments other types of dives, such as deep wall dives, ocean pinnacles and, in particular, wreck diving, as many of the more interesting wrecks lie at deeper depths.

The course is not considered to be a Technical Diving course since all the normal protocols and deep dive procedures within this course would normally be covered by any recreational deep diving course syllabus. However, this course is a little more comprehensive in its contents and dive skills than other agencies’ courses.

This course is open to Sports Divers or the equivalent – e.g. PADI Rescue Diver, SSI Advanced Open Water (with Stress and Rescue Specialty), CMAS 2 STAR Diver etc. The student should also have logged a minimum of 20 dives since their entry-level qualification for this course.  In addition to this, out of the 20 logged dives, the student should have recently logged at least 1 dive to a depth of 30 metres.

The aim of this course is to train the students in the importance of proper dive planning and gas management, as well as the correct procedures for deep dives. In addition it aims to give them practical experience in planning and participating in deep dives, which will involve both simulated and actual decompression stops. It is important to remember that all deep dives will incur some level of decompression. This course addresses this, demonstrating and explaining the most effective and safest way of conducting these procedures.

On completion of this course and over a number of progressive depth experience dives, the student will be qualified to dive to a maximum depth of 40 metres.

This course is specifically designed to be offered by BSAC Training Centres. No specialized equipment is required for this course. Although the course does use two cylinders, the equipment configuration uses a standard diving set, plus an extra side cylinder, regulator and ancillary equipment, such as reels and Delayed Surface Marker Buoys (DSMB’s) etc