Tec 45

Tec 45 Course

COURSE PRICE & DURATION: $650 (includes all course materials) Duration - 2 days to a week or more (depending on weather and dive site availability) COURSE CONTENTS: Knowlege development Skill developmentOne Confined Water DiveThree Open Water Dives EQUIPMENT REQUIRED: Normal Scuba Gear (plus redundancy)Tech Gear (as applicable) PREREQUISITESTec 40REQUIRED TEXT: PADI Deep Diver Crew Pak LINKS: Medical Statement (must be signed by physician)Tec Safe Diving Practices Statement of Understanding

The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You’ll extend your depth limit to 45 metres/145 feet and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder. It puts you in a complete tec diving rig, which can be either backmount or sidemount. You’ll also make accelerated decompression dives using EANx or pure oxygen. This is a course where you’ll rise to the challenge and make the commitment to become a technical diver.

To enroll in the Tec 45 course, you must:

Be a PADI Tec 40 diver
Be a PADI Rescue Diver
Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, with at least 12 dives on enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 10 dives deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
Be at least 18 years old
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 Tec Deep Instructor.

What You Learn

Your Tec 45 training consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four open water dives. Building on what you learned in the Tec 40 course, you focus on the function and maintenance of tec diving equipment and associated issues. You continue fine-tuning gas planning and calculating accelerated decompression stops. Plus, you learn to think like a technical diver.