## Level 3 in FFESSM FFESSM means "Fédération Française d'Etude des Sports Sous Marins". It is our federation about sub-marine sports. Levels go from 1 to 4. After the third one, it's more about supervising and teaching. The licence is valid from 15 september to the 31 decembre of the next month, so 15 months. ## Level 3 The level 3 is the combination of multiple sub-levels : - PA40 : autonomous divers until 40m - PA60 : autonomous divers until 60m - PE60 : supervised divers until 60m PA : Max 3 persons within an autonomous group of adult divers. PE : Max 5 persons in the group : 4 divers + 1 superviser This new level give us new responsability. In a dive group where people have less high levels, we're the ones who are responsible in case of accident. In PA, we can dive until 40m without a dive director, so we need to be autonomous on : - Choose a dive site - Have mandatory security assets on the boat - Know how to drive a boat. In this case, the sport legal frame always prevails and we're still subject to our prerogatives. To validate this level, we need to make 10 dives in a natural environment and get the RIFAP licence (Réaction et Intervetion Face à un Accident de Plongée - react to dive accident), wich is 2 days of theoric and practice about security and first aid. ## Mandatory equipment : - Inflated gillet - computer or table + deepmeter + watch - Octopus - At least one dive stop parachute in the group.