How deep can beginner scuba divers go?

The scuba diving depth for beginners who are taking their Open Water certification course or equivalent is generally 18 meters or 60 feet, to 20 meters or 65 feet. Whereas the Discover Scuba Diving depth limit or Try Dive is 12 meters or 40 feet.

How deep can you dive without worrying about decompression?

130 feet
How deep can you dive without decompression? Practically speaking, you can make no stop dives to 130 feet. While you can, in theory, go deeper than that and stay within no stop limits, the no stop times are so short that “well within” limits is essentially impossible.

Is 30 feet a deep dive?

However, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) defines anything from 18 to 30 metres (60 to 100 ft) as a “deep dive” in the context of recreational diving (other diving organisations vary), and considers deep diving a form of technical diving.

Can you get the bends from 10m?

The Bends/DCS in very simple terms Anyone who dives deeper than 10 metres (30ft.) while breathing air from a scuba tank is affecting the balance of gases inside the tissues of their body. The deeper you dive, the greater the effect. And the longer you stay at depth adds even more to this effect.

Can you dive 100 feet?

What is considered a deep dive? Different divers have different ideas about when a dive is considered a deep dive. An Open Water Diver is certified to dive to 60 feet / 18 meters and an Advanced Open Water diver is certified to dive to 100 feet / 30 meters.

What are the odds of dying while scuba diving?

The average diver The average diver’s extra mortality is fairly low, ranging from 0.5 to 1.2 deaths per 100,000 dives. Table 1 aims to put the diving risk into perspective by comparing it with other activities. From these numbers, it seems that scuba diving is not a particularly dangerous sport – which is true!

At what depth do you start sinking?

Most humans hit negative buoyancy around 30 feet down.

At what depth is the bends a risk?

The Bends/DCS in very simple terms Anyone who dives deeper than 10 metres (30ft.) while breathing air from a scuba tank is affecting the balance of gases inside the tissues of their body. The deeper you dive, the greater the effect.

Is 40 feet a deep dive?

What is Deep Diving? Deep Diving is any dive deeper than 20 meters (60 feet). However there are different kinds of diving which gives deep diving its own specific definition. In Recreational diving, the maximum depth limit is 40 meters (130 feet).