The courses in the PSS Recreational division belong to the branch of diving generally defined as "recreational".
This term is intended to mean diving activities carried out for personal enjoyment as a pleasant way for a person to spend his or her free time.
In reality, over the years the meaning of the term has changed until it has now come to mean "diving activities carried out within certain well-defined limits". Exceeding these limits you enter an area of diving defined as "technical" (the subject of the PSS Technical courses). In effect, technical divers also dive for their own enjoyment, while only a few divers dive as a profession: guides, instructors and their assistants.
The courses in the PSS Recreational division are carried out using an open circuit aqualung, air or nitrox, and not deeper than 40 meters and within the maximum no-stop dive times.
Limits of recreational diving activities:
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Scuba Experience: max 12 m (40 feet)
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Scuba Diver max: 12 m (40 feet)
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Open Water Diver: max 18 m (60 feet)
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Junior Advanced Open Water Diver: max 21 m (70 feet)
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Advanced Open Water Diver: max 30 m (100 feet)
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Deep Diver: max 40 m (132 feet)
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The absolute limit for recreational diving: 40 m (132 feet)