Crimson Desert: Charting the Unknown Diving Guide — Breath Gauge, Diving Suit Refinement, and Taming Underwater Mounts

Diving needs nothing. There is no diving skill to unlock, no quest that gates it, and no item you must own before your first dive. Walk into the Great Ocean of Pywel and dive: a breath gauge appears, and that gauge is the whole limitation. When it runs out, you must surface.

Diving itself does not depend on unlocking a ship. Ships matter for reaching far dive sites and for everything else the ocean holds, and shipbuilding has its own guide; but the dive starts at the waterline, with or without one.

Three things decide how long you can stay down, and only the first two come from the official patch notes. Refining the diving suit raises your maximum breath capacity permanently: it is the long-term investment. New food items temporarily restore breath during a dive: they are the short-term fix. Air pockets dotted through ruins and caves refill the gauge on contact, according to player reports: they are how you chain a long route without surfacing.

Two things this guide deliberately does not print. Pearl Abyss has not published per-piece breath values, so the Charter's Diving Set, the pre-order reward for Kliff and Oongka, and the Charter's Light Diving Set for Damiane are mentioned here only as pre-order rewards, not as breath-value sources, and no breath numbers appear in this guide. Food names are also not published by Pearl Abyss, so no food names are listed either.

The A.T.A.G can operate underwater, but only when its underwater equipment is equipped. That is the whole official line, and this guide stays inside it: Pearl Abyss has not published the equipment's name, stats, or acquisition route, so none are invented here. If your A.T.A.G is not working underwater, check that the underwater equipment is actually equipped before looking for any other cause.

Underwater creatures become mounts the same way trust works everywhere else: raise Trust, then register. The method depends on the creature's type. Aggressive species must be subdued, fought and broken in like a horse. Gentle species are fed instead. Either way raises Trust, and once Trust is high enough the animal registers as a mount. Player reports give sharks as the subdue example and rays, turtles, and sunfish as the feed examples.

What is not here matters too. Pearl Abyss has not confirmed the exact Trust threshold for sea creatures, and there is no official full list of underwater mounts, so this guide prints no threshold and no species table. The great white was the first underwater mount players registered on launch night, according to player reports. Individual guides have also reported a Pink Manta Ray and a Pink Dolphin; treat those as single-guide leads, not as an official list, and expect the list to grow as players verify more.

Diving belongs to the Great Ocean of Pywel, the DLC ocean. It is not a base-game land or inland-water activity: the breath gauge, the diving suit, and underwater mounts all arrive with Charting the Unknown. What diving is for is down there, too: sunken ruins, treasure, resources, and new creatures and mounts. Some deep zones refuse entry with a countdown, according to player reports, so treat a refusal as a boundary, not a bug, and come back with a better route or better breath.

No. Walk into the Great Ocean of Pywel and dive; the breath gauge is the only limit, and diving does not depend on unlocking a ship.

Refine the diving suit to raise the cap permanently, carry breath-restoring food for temporary refills, and chain air pockets in ruins and caves. No breath numbers are printed here because Pearl Abyss has not published per-piece values.

By type: subdue aggressive species, feed gentle ones, and register the animal once its Trust is high enough. There is no official full species list and no confirmed Trust threshold, so neither appears in this guide.

No. There is no official list. Player reports so far name the great white from launch night, plus single-guide reports of a Pink Manta Ray and a Pink Dolphin; treat the single-guide reports as leads, not as a list.

Only the DLC ocean, the Great Ocean of Pywel. Diving is not a base-game land or inland-water activity.