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PADI Tec 45

Advance Your Tec Skills to 145' & Use Oxygen as Your Decompression Gas

PADI Tec Course Breakdown:

The PADI Tec Rec Courses are structured to build upon the skills of the previous class. The progression of classes are:

 

This allows the diver to take baby steps throughout their Open Circuit Technical Diving Courses. There is no bigger concern than task loading a diver with too many skills and variables to early on throughout their course. The PADI Tec Courses will ensure the diver is 100% comfortable with each step along the way of becoming a proficient technical diver.

Tec 45 Objective:

  • To qualify the diver to make limited decompression dives using air, nitrox, and oxygen to a depth of 145' or less.

  • To train the diver in the knowledge, procedures, and motor skills required for decompression diving within the limitations of the Tec 45 certification.

  • To assure the diver understands and acknowledges the hazards and risks associated with this level of tec diving and tec diving in general.

  • To train the diver to prepare for and respond to reasonably foreseeable emergencies that may occur within Tec 45 limits.

  • To lay the foundation to continue your training into Tec 50, Tec Trimix 65, and beyond.

Tec 45 Diver is Qualified to:

  • Make limited decompression dives using air, nitrox, and oxygen to a depth of 145' or less.

  • Use a single decompression gas up to 100% oxygen to make your decompression more conservative or to accelerate your decompression.

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sidemount divers

Prerequisites

  • Must be certified as a Tec 40 diver or equivalent

  • 18 years old

  • Rescue Diver w/ Current CPR & AED Training (within the past two years)

  • 50 logged dives (12 deeper than 60' using EANx, 6 deeper than 100')

  • Must have current DAN Dive Insurance (or equivalent)

  • Must have current RSTC Medical signed by doctor (valid for 1 year)

What is Involved?

  • Independent Study (home study) 

  • ​Knowledge Development (classroom)

  • 4-Open Water Dives​

  • Required Course Materials:

  • PADI Tec Diver Manual

Tec 45 Required Equipment:

  • Double cylinders of at least 70 cu/ft each with isolator manifold (unless diving sidemount)

  •  Primary and secondary regulators for back mounted double manifolds, one with seven foot hose for gas sharing and one with SPG. (In sidemount each regulator must have an SPG.)

  • Stage/decompression bottle with regulator and SPG (40 cu/ft or 80 cu/ft recommended).

  • Tec diving BCD and harness

  • Exposure suit appropriate for environment and dive duration (if using drysuit student must has 20 dives prior to taking course)

  • Weight system (if needed)

  • DSMB / lift bag with reel

  • Backup lift bag / DSMB / Signal tube

  • Two cutting devices

  • Slate

ONE OF THE FOLLOWING COMBINATIONS:

  • Two multigas enriched air capable dive computers

  • One multigas enriched air capable dive computer and a backup single gas computer with dive tables

  • One single gas enriched air computer and a backup depth gauge and timer with tables

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How Many Students In The Course?

We are Proud to Offer PRIVATE / SEMI PRIVATE COURSES!
Our courses are smaller allowing us to focus on your every need along the way of becoming a great diver. We take an average of 3 students per instructor. Some of our courses are PRIVATE, 1 on 1 Instruction!


How Long Is The Course? 

The Tec 45 Course has 4 dives in the open water over 2 days and 1 day in the classroom. If students don't come to this course with the required skills to dive at this level; additional training maybe required prior to certification.

Cost:

ALL INCLUSIVE PRICING. NO HIDDEN FEES

Tec 45 Course --- $800

 

Tec 45 & Tec 50 Courses  --- $1,400

 

Tec Deep Program (Tec 40, 45, & 50)   --- $2,000


Includes: Course Tuition, Course Materials, Gas Fills, Limited Rental Equipment & Certification Fees
 

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