Tec 40

Description

The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It’s a great place to start because it’s the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver course and bridges the gap between no stop diving and full technical deep decompression diving. You gain experience and begin building the knowledge and skills you need to continue your tec diver training. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.

To enroll in the Tec 40 course, you must be:

• A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
• A PADI Enriched Air Diver with at least 10 dives using enriched air deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
• At least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives
• A PADI Deep Diver or proof of at least 10 dives to 30 metres/100 feet
• Have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months

Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply – ask your PADI Tec Instructor.

Academic

The Tec 40 course consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four training dives. You’ll learn about:

• Technical diving’s risks and responsibilities
• Technical diving equipment, proper rigging and set up
• Gas planning, oxygen limits and decompression planning
• Team diving techniques and emergency procedures, such as dealing with free flows, manifold leaks and out of gas situations

You will also learn to:

• Use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 metres/130 feet.
• Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Since it’s part of the course, your PADI Tec 40 course training credits toward the PADI Tec 45 and Tec 50 courses.

What is included?

• Standard twinset equipment: harness, backplate, twin Cylinders, twinset regulators with an SPG.
• A single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.
• Tec 40 eLearning
• Pool Entry
• Gas fills
• PADI Certification eCARD

All other technical equipment can be purchased or hired including a technical computer.

Entry at Open Water Dive Sites is not included.

Price£349

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Tec Deep Crew-pack

You’ll use the Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pack, 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 in between your tec diving adventures.

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