What are common depths for experienced scuba divers?

Answer 1

The certification levels for PADI (Professional Association of Dive Instructors) are as follows:

*Junior Open Water Diver---minimum age of 10 and the diver cannot go below 45 feet

*Basic Open Water Certification--minimum age of 12 and the diver can go to the safe distance of 132 feet

*Advanced Open Water Certification--minimum age of 15

*Rescue Diver--minimum age of 18

*Divemaster

*Scuba Instructor--the diver is licensed to certify other divers.

There are also many specialty courses that one can take, such as wreck diving, deep diving, nitrox diving, search and recovery, and underwater Photography.

Answer 2

Most "recreational" dive training agencies in the world limit dives to 40 meters (about 120 feet). The Cayman Islands Watersports Association limits all dives in the Cayman Islands to 100 feet.

"Technical" and commercial divers are trained and equipped to dive to deeper depths. Most technical diving takes place above 100 meters, though there is no fixed maximum depth rule in place, as there is in recreational diving.

Since most of the world's sea life lives at relatively shallow depths, the vast majority of the recreational scuba dives made in the world go no deeper than about 20 meters.

Answer 3

40 feet (12 meters) to 100 feet (30 meters).