I have an 11 year old who wants to get his Jr AOW Cert. What is the deal for the deep diver adventure dive with regard to Juniors? Can he do that dive when he is 12 and could he do the Deep Diver Specialty course when he 12? Do they modify the class for Jrs and not go as deep?
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He can do the Deep Dive Adventure dive when he is 12 but the maximum depth will be 70 ft. That will be enough for him to get his Jr AOW. He can not do the Deep Dive Specialty course until he is 15.
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That makes sense. Thank you.
As a follow up, would his 1 Jr AOW deep adventure dive count as one of the 4 dives in the deep diver specialty? I guess if there is a significant gap in time between the two that it would not.
He can start some of the Adventure Dives at 11. You may want to do a Navigation, Night or Buoyancy Class/Adventure Dive etc... and get the learning started. Any quality instructor would have the dive redone and expand on skills when doing the actual Specialty Class.
Excellent points. We did the Peak Performance Boyancy specialty already. We may do the Navigation specialty while in Cayman soon. It looks like the night specialty has a 12 year age limit, i guess the night adventure will do. Might try that in Cayman as well
Thanks again.
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I took my young sons "deep" .. deeper than recommended by PADI anyway.
I would exercise EXTREME caution in trying to accelerate a pre-teen's progression into deeper diving. It really is more dangerous and it would be my preference to have the kid do MANY (dozens) of shallower divers, night dives, higher current dives etc... before taking them much deeper than 40-50 feet....
But hey maybe I am overly cautious.. I had my 9 yr old spearfishing in 60 feet with me...(2 years before he could get certification)...
I would exercise EXTREME caution in trying to accelerate a pre-teen's progression into deeper diving. It really is more dangerous and it would be my preference to have the kid do MANY (dozens) of shallower divers, night dives, higher current dives etc... before taking them much deeper than 40-50 feet....
But hey maybe I am overly cautious.. I had my 9 yr old spearfishing in 60 feet with me...(2 years before he could get certification)...
Not looking to accelerate anything. Just plotting a course and trying to figure out where along that route things fall. Hopefully I dont get too old to go spearfishing with him.
One of the problems with this is that we don't know enough about how human growth and physiology is related to pressure. It is not just a matter of whether or not a child of that age has the maturity or skills needed for such dives. There is some thinking that higher pressures may be harmful to growing bones. That thinking may be totally erroneous, but there is no good evidence either way that I know of. I am about to certify my grandson as a junior diver. I will not be pushing him to deep dives until I am sure it is safe to do so.
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