Course overview

Extend your range to the recreational maximum with the PADI Deep Diver specialty on Kadmat Island. Over four dives you learn to plan and manage dives between 18 and 40 metres on the atoll's ocean-side reef walls, where the clear Lakshadweep water shows deeper coral, pelagic visitors and the colour shifts that make deep diving so absorbing.

What you’ll learn

• Plan and execute dives to recreational depths up to 40 metres
• Manage gas, no-decompression limits and safety stops at depth
• Recognise and respond to nitrogen narcosis
• Monitor air consumption and time more carefully at depth
• Use a reference line for controlled descents and ascents
• Handle colour-loss and reduced-light conditions deep on the reef

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 15
• PADI Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water (or equivalent)
• Comfortable buoyancy and air-management skills
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

What's included · What's not

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Probability of sightings · month-by-month

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Theory & first deep dives

   Cover deep-diving theory and planning, then make your first two progressively deeper dives on the reef slope.
2. Day2
   To 40 metres

   Complete the deeper dives toward 40 metres on Kadmat's reef walls, practising narcosis checks and gas management.

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