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How deep can advanced divers go?

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Asked by: Zachary Joseph

100 feetmax 30 meters or 100 feet. You should not dive beyond this point without any further and specific deep dive training.

How deep can a master diver go?

Depth Restrictions After Certification



PADI Master Divers ages 15 and older are certified to dive to a maximum depth of 30m/100 feet or 40m/130 With the Deep Diver Specialty. PADI Junior Master Divers from the age of 12 to 14 will be restricted to a maximum depth of 21m/70 feet.

How deep can scientific divers go?

With a basic Open Water certification, you may dive to a depth of 60’/20m and you can rent gear and fill tanks.

How deep can a diver go before being crushed?

Human bone crushes at about 11159 kg per square inch. This means we’d have to dive to about 35.5 km depth before bone crushes. This is three times as deep as the deepest point in our ocean.

What is the deepest dive ever made?

1,082 feet

The deepest dive ever (on record) is 1,082 feet (332 meters) set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. That depth is the equivalent of approximately 10 NBA basketball courts aligned vertically. In terms of pressure, that’s about 485 pounds per square inch.

How many dives do you need for advanced open water?

five PADI

The Advanced course takes a minimum of two days and consists of five PADI Adventure dives. PADI offers many types of Adventure Dives to choose from. Underwater Navigation and Deep Dive are required, giving you three more Adventure Dives that you can choose.

How deep do navy seals dive?

During BUD/S training Navy Seals dive 100 – 300 feet. While deployed, they often dive 20 – 50 feet.

What is the deepest dive without oxygen?

The maximum depth reached by anyone in a single breath is 702 feet (213.9 metres) and this record was set in 2007 by Herbert Nitsch. He also holds the record for the deepest dive without oxygen – reaching a depth of 831 feet (253.2 metres) but he sustained a brain injury as he was ascending.

Can you dive to the Titanic?

You cannot scuba dive to the Titanic due to its depth at 12,500 feet. Air consumption: one standard tank lasts 15 minutes at 120 feet. Supply for 12,500 feet would be impossible to carry even with a team. The deepest dive on record with special equipment, training and a support team is 1,100 feet.

How deep has a human gone in the ocean?

35,853 feet

Vescovo’s trip to the Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, back in May, was said to be the deepest manned sea dive ever recorded, at 10,927 meters (35,853 feet).

Has anyone been to bottom of Mariana Trench?

The first and only time humans descended into the Challenger Deep was more than 50 years ago. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt. Don Walsh reached this goal in a U.S. Navy submersible, a bathyscaphe called the Trieste.

Is there anything deeper than the Mariana Trench?

The deepest place in the Atlantic is in the Puerto Rico Trench, a place called Brownson Deep at 8,378m. The expedition also confirmed the second deepest location in the Pacific, behind the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. This runner-up is the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench with a depth of 10,816m.

Could the Megalodon live in the Mariana Trench?


If there was a megalodon shark living down there it might not look how we imagined them to be to survive in the mariana trench megalodon would have had to adapt to the living conditions and evolve.

Can Mt Everest fit in the ocean?

Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on the Earth, is located in Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench 36,070 feet below sea level while Earth’s tallest peak Mount Everest has an altitude of 29,029 feet above sea level. Interestingly, about 90% of all marine life live within 660 feet of the ocean surface.

How cold is the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

between 34 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit

You might expect the waters of the Mariana Trench to be frigid since no sunlight can reach it. And you’d be right. The water there tends to range between 34 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.

Are there monsters in the Mariana Trench?

Despite its immense distance from everywhere else, life seems to be abundant in the Trench. Recent expeditions have found myriad creatures living out their lives at the bottom of the sea-floor. Xenophyophores, amphipods, and holothurians (not the names of alien species, I promise) all call the trench home.

How cold is the moon?

The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.

Is the Mariana Trench deeper than Mount Everest?

By comparison, Mount Everest stands at 29,026 feet (8,848 m) above sea level, meaning the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is 7,044 feet (2,147 m) deeper than Everest is tall.

What is the deepest place on Earth?

The Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest location on Earth. According to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the United States has jurisdiction over the trench and its resources. Scientists use a variety of technologies to overcome the challenges of deep-sea exploration and explore the Trench.

Why isn’t the ocean deepest at its center?

Mid-ocean ridges are formed by volcanic activity with current activity concentrated along the top of the ridge. The deepest parts of the oceans are not in its centers. Instead, the sea floor is deeper as you get further away from midocean ridges to either side.

Who has gone the deepest in the ocean?

businessman Victor Vescovo

Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for Deepest Dive Ever. Explorer and businessman Victor Vescovo descended 35,853 feet (10,927 meters) into the Pacific Ocean, breaking the record for deepest dive ever.

Does the ocean end?

While this question appears to have a simple answer, the reality is that all the world’s waterways are connected to each other. There are no borders within the water itself, rather the names were human constructs given to different oceans in regard to around which bodies of land they flow.

What is the deepest a human has been underground?

In terms of depth below the surface, the Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 retains the world record at 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) reached in 1989 and is still the deepest artificial point on Earth.

Which animal can dive the deepest?

Cuvier’s beaked whales

Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) are master divers. These creatures hold the record for deepest plunge by a marine mammal. One whale dived to depths of nearly 3,000 meters (almost 1.9 miles). This species also holds the record for the longest dives.

How do whales sleep without drowning?

So how can they sleep and not drown? Observations of bottlenose dolphins in aquariums and zoos, and of whales and dolphins in the wild, show two basic methods of sleeping: they either rest quietly in the water, vertically or horizontally, or sleep while swimming slowly next to another animal.

How deep can a Orca dive?

Dive depth. Although not generally deep divers, foraging killer whales can dive to at least 100 m (328 ft.) or more. The deepest dive known for a killer whale, performed under experimental conditions, was 259 m (850 ft.).