Solo Dive Certification

Solo diving will not be for everyone but for many it will be liberating allowing a more fulfilling experience of our sport.

Solo dive certification. At one point or another many divers have found themselves alone during a dive whether it was intentional or not. Learn to dive with padi. Sdis solo diving is the practice of self reliant scuba diving without a dive buddysolo diving once considered technical diving and discouraged by most certification agencies is now seen by many experienced divers and some certification agencies as an. The course really made me a more confident diver with or without a buddy.

More importantly we can start treating divers like adults who can make their own decisions with no more pious rules that we all know are ignored as often as observed and for good reason. Padi self reliant diver. New solo diver certification. Solo diving is the practice of underwater diving without a dive buddy particularly with reference to scuba diving but the term is also applied to freediving.

Padi is the worlds leading scuba diver training organization. The next day after getting certified i directly did my first few solo dives. It is such a thrill to successfully execute a dive plan and just go exploring on your own. His program at the time allowed experienced divers with appropriate equipment to become recognized as solo divers on his liveaboard fleet.

Not offering instruction is not going to limit the number of solo divers. Without a buddy to rely on in case of gear failure or loss creating redundancy is a matter of life or death. Having the right equipment is a crucial part of solo diver training. Surface supplied diving and atmospheric suit diving are single diver underwater activities but are accompanied by an on surface support team dedicated to the safety of the diver and not considered solo diving in its truest sense.

In 1998 sdi took up the challenge and threw down the gauntlet to those saying solo diving was unsafe by creating a solo diver certification program. Professional association of diving instructors. The same is said for solo diving. But what you then get is divers untrained diving solo.

It was around then that a friend at master divers a padi dive school with a reputation for not just meeting but exceeding industry standards piqued my interest over talks of a course id never even heard of. Padi feels its profit margin or liability reduction will be better served by. In fact over four months after id landed back on koh tao i was shocked to realize id only been out on two fun dives.