Tec 45 course PADI
picks up where Tec 40 leaves off and takes your training as a tec diver further and deeper. It is the second subcourse in the full PADI Tec Diver course
What You Learn
- The skills and equipment and planning need to dive to a maximum of 45 metres/145 feet
- The knowledge to plan and execute single and repetitive decompression dives using a single stage cylinder of EANx or oxygen to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression stops.
- There would be no time limit to amount of decompression
- Prepare for and respond to foreseeable technical diving emergencies
- Master the basic skills and procedures you’ll need as you move into deeper technical diving
The scuba gear you use technical scuba divers hovering through the deep waters
- You use basic tec diving equipment,
- The learning materials you need
You'll use the tec deep diver crew-pak, which introduces you to
- tec diving lingo
- emergency procedures
- decompression and stage cylinder handling
- gas planning
The pak includes a manual, dive planning checklist and dive planning slate. The optional Equipment Set-up and Key Skills video on DVD is a great tool to help you practice at home inbetween your tec diving adventures. You'll continue to use the Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak through the Tec 50 course.
Prerequisites
You must be
- A PADI advanced open water diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
- A PADI rescue diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
- A PADI enriched air diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
- A PADI deep diver (or hold aqualifying certification from another organization)
- PADI tec 40 (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
- Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least:
- 12 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
- 6 (with or without EANx) dives were deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
- At least 18 years old
- Have a medical statement signed by a physician