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Deep Dive

Deep Dive is a form of a technical diving procedure. It is defined by the level of the diver's diver training, diving equipment, breathing gas, and surface support. Different dives constitute deep dives.

A Deep Dive in recreational diving of 100 feet can be considered a deep dive. In technical diving, 200 feet may be a deep dive. In surface supplied diving, 330 feet may be a deep dive.

Deep diving obviously has more consequences and dangers than basic open water diving. Nitrogen narcosis, or the narks or rapture of the deep, starts with feelings of euphoria and over-confidence but then lead to numbness and memory impairment similar to alcohol intoxication. Decompression sickness, or the “bends”, is when the gas bubbles of nitrogen get caught in the joints on an ascent. Yet, the effects tend to be delayed until reaching the surface.

 

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