What is sport diving ?
It is a sports and recreational discipline that requires you undertake the appropriate theoretical course and training before you can become certified as a sport diver. After sport diving it is not necessary to undergo decompression because dives are done with time and depths limits, different to those commercial and professional divers do. • What is decompression? When we dive, breathing compressed air (ambient air forced into a tank by a special compressor) a quantity of nitrogen is dissolved into our bodies due to the greater pressure from the water above us. This nitrogen forms bubbles in our body when we ascend and the pressure we support decreases. It could be compared to shaking a soda and opening it all of a sudden, a lot of bubbles appear when the pressure inside the bottle goes down right after we open it. If we keep ourselves within certain time and depth limits, estimated by immersion tables, that ‘nitrogen liberation’ is gradual and harmless. If we exceed these limits we a
It is a sport and a recreational discipline that requires both theoretical and hands on training before you can be certified as a sport diver. During sport diving, decompression is not necessary because dives are done with time and depth limits, different to those of commercial and professional divers.
