Description
PADI TEC 40
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 and will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.
What are the prerequisites for this course?
To enroll in the Tec 40 course, you must be:
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.
- PADI Enriched Air Diver with at least 10 dives using enriched air deeper than 18 metres.
- PADI Deep Diver or proof of at least 10 dives to 30Â metres/100 feet
- At least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives.
You also need to have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
What will I do?
The Tec 40 course consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions, and four training dives. You'll learn about:
- Technical diving 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.
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.