What are recreational dive limits?
How deep do you go? With the necessary training and experience, the limit for recreational scuba diving is 40 metres/130 feet. Beginning scuba divers stay shallower than about 18 metres/60 feet.
How do I plan a scuba diving?
Five steps to Dive Planning
- Pick a dive site. Sounds simple enough, right?
- Decide on a dive objective with your buddy. Knowing what you’re both going to do can eliminate a lot of frustration.
- Plan your depth & time.
- Have a contingency plan.
- Make your dive!
How deep do divers usually go?
130 feet
The deepest your typical recreational scuba diver can go is 130 feet. In order to venture further and explore wrecks, caves and other sites beyond 130 feet, these agencies — such as PADI, NAUI and SSI — require “technical” certifications.
When using standard NAUI dive tables actual dive time is?
NAUI recommends a SIT of at least one hour between dives. Use the next greater dive time if your dive is particularly cold or strenuous. For example, if you do a dive to 18 meters (60 feet) for 22 minutes, the 22 minutes rounds to 25 minutes.
When making a series of dives should you do your first?
For example, if you do a dive to 18 meters (60 feet), but spend most of the time at 12 meters (40 feet), you must consider the dive to be an 18 meter (60 foot) dive. Always make your deepest dive first when making a series of dives. Plan each of your repetitive dives to a shallower depth than your previous dive.
What is the Recreational Dive Planner?
The Recreational Dive Planner (or RDP) is a decompression table for non-stop underwater diving. The first Recreational Dive Planner was developed by DSAT .
Why is it important to know the Dive Planner?
Returning to the R.D.P. (Recreational Diving Planner) we said that it is important to know it, because it allows us to plan one or more dives in advance, thus offering us the possibility of organizing our holiday by planning in advance the diving plan we are going to do.
How to use the “B” side of the recreational diving planner?
Before proceeding to illustrate how to use the “B” side of the recreational diving planner, let’s not forget the second important rule: All repetitive dives (so immediately following the first one) they must be planned at a depth equal to or less than the previous one and in any case must never exceed -30m. of depth.
How many numbers are on a PADI open water scuba diver certification card?
Even the supposedly friendly PADI recreational dive planner that every student must understand before s/he successfully completes the PADI Open Water Scuba Diver course and gets the certification card contains over a thousand numbers on both sides of a small 5 x 7 inch plastic card.