Name: Trip to Visit to Whipps Cross Recompression Chamber and Specialty Course.
Start: 2025-02-22T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-22T14:30:00+00:00
Location: London Hyperbaric Medicine

Trip to Visit to Whipps Cross Recompression Chamber and Specialty Course.

Recompression Chamber Awareness Specialty and dry Dive
Dry Diving.
We are organising a trip to Whipps Cross Recompression on 22nd February 2025. Dry diving is a fun and safe way to experience Nitrogen Narcosis at 40m for the first time and is open to Open Water Divers and above. The session is designed to familiarise divers to Hyperbaric facilities available, the procedures, knowledge, problems and hazards associated with a recompression chamber. A recompression chamber is the perfect environment to test a diver's ability at depth and simulate the diving experience in a safe water-free environment. Tasks are performed by the divers to test the level of their impairment caused by Narcosis. You can bring Cameras/video equipment with a housing rated to 40 metres to record the events. Bring along your dive computers too. The Chamber have a variety of demonstration tools that are taken into the chamber during the dive to display air density, bubble solution, also Nitrogen Narcosis.
At 9msw the chamber introduce the use of100% O2 as accelerated decompression, however this has a dual purpose as it show divers exactly what would happen to them if they needed to come in and be treated for DCI.
Log books and dive certifications must be brought in. Make sure if you have a medical for normal diving purposes, you need to take that with you too.
All divers must be qualified. (Open water or equivalent). Ideal for all levels of qualification. Please phone 01702 542759 to book.
We are meeting up at 9.30 am. The course lasts 3-4 hours maybe longer subject to numbers. There will be a chamber dive to 40 metres, this will involve a small test at depth; also, other pressure related experiments are shown. After the dive there will be a DCI presentation, and a tour of the facility.
The Dry Dive cost £50 and the to gain the specialty its an extra £25.
On successful completion of the course a PADI Recompression Chamber Awareness Distinctive Specialty certification card is awarded to those who have selected that option. I would highly recommend to complete both, that’s what I did. You learn so much information doing the specialty and of course it goes towards the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating if that’s your goal.