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Technical Diving

Technical diving is scuba divings "extreme" sport, taking experienced and qualified divers far deeper than in mainstream recreational diving. Technical diving is marked by significantly more equipment and training requirements to manage the additional hazard this type of diving entails. Tec diving isn't for everyone, but for those who hear its challenge call, the PADI TecRec courses are the answer.

What is technical diving?

Technical scuba diving is defined as diving other than conventional commercial or research diving that takes divers beyond recreational scuba diving limits. It is further defined as and includes one or more of the following:

Diving beyond 40 meters/130 feet deep.

Required stage decompression.

Diving in an overhead environment beyond 40 linear meters/130 linear feet of the surface.

Accelerated decompression and or the use of variable gas mixtures during the dive.

Because in technical diving the surface is effectively inaccessible in an emergency, tec divers use extensive methodologies and technologies and training to manage the added risks. Even with these, however, tec diving admittedly has more risk, potential hazard and shorter critical error chains than does recreational scuba diving.

Discover Tec Diving

DSAT Discover Tec lets you try technical diving equipment and procedures.

What you will learn

You learn about technical diving and get to try it out. Plus, Discover Tec experiences can also credit towards the Tec 40 course.

The Scuba Gear You'll Use

You will need your basic scuba gear and you will try technical scuba diving equipment

Prerequisites

To participate in Discover Tec Diving, you must:

Be a PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another organization).

Have a minimum of 10 logged dives.

Be at least 18 years old.

Tec 40

It is the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver course and consists of the first four dives. Because you can do one of these dives in confined water (such as a swimming pool), many divers start the Tec 40 courses in the winter months, ready to continue in open water when spring arrives.

What you will learn

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 meters/130 feet.

Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

The best part is you can do it with the additional cost of having to purchase a lot Technical equipment. Contact us and just ask "how do I get involved!"

Tec 45

The Tec 45 course picks up where Tec 40 leaves off and takes your training as a tec diver further and deeper. It is the second sub-course in the full PADI Tec Diver course.

What you will learn

The skills and equipment and planning needed to dive to a maximum of 45 meters/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.

Tec 50

The Tec 50 course completes your training as an entry-level tec diver, taking you past the limits of recreational diving.

What you will learn

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 meters/130 feet.

Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

The best part is you can do it with the additional cost of having to purchase a lot Technical equipment. Contact us and just ask "how do I get involved!"

Trimix Diver Course

For the extreme diver ready to further explore the world of technical deep diving, the gas of choice is trimix - a blend of oxygen, helium and nitrogen.

The PADI Tec Trimix Diver course takes you to the outer edges of technical deep diving, opening the door to pristine dive sites few divers - if any - ever see.

What you will learn

The PADI Tec Trimix Diver course is intended to extend the depth range of technical divers already trained and qualified to use air, enriched air and oxygen for technical decompression dives beyond 50 meters/165 feet. Diving with trimix is the outer edge of tec diving - the maximum depth for using this technology has yet to be defined.

This course is for Tec 50 or Tec Trimix 65 (or those holding a qualifying certification from another training organization). The course extends your depth range capabilities by training you to use trimix (a blend of helium, oxygen and nitrogen).

You will:

Plan and execute between three to eight dives (depending upon whether you enter the course as a Tec 50 diver or Tec Trimix 65 diver) using EANX and trimix blends.

Use decompression software to create custom dive tables and dive plans.

Make training dives as deep as 90 meters/300feet.

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