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    Tec 40 Course with Blue Water Divers

    If you're interested in technical diving, but haven't yet met the prerequisites for the PADI Tec 50 Diver course or PADI Tec 45 course, you can consider enrolling in the PADI Tec 40 course. 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.


    You'll 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.


    The Scuba Gear You'll Use

    You use recreational scuba equipment, with some minor additions to enhance your ability to deal with tec diving conditions.

    Equipment Requirements:

    • • Single-cylinder with a dual outlet valve (H valve or Y valve) or single cylinder with single outlet valve and a bailout cylinder.
    • • Double-cylinder configuration with one deco cylinder. • Wing/BCD with harness and attachment point for deco cylinders with sufficient lift to keep the diver’s head out of the water at the surface
    • • Backup buoyancy control providing a reliable means for controlling buoyancy and maintaining decompression stops, such as double bladder wing or dry suit.
    • • Backup mask
    • • Visual and audible surface signaling devices
    • • Reel/spool (two recommended) – needs enough line for depth
    • • DSMB/lift bag (two recommended)
    • • Knife/cutting device and backup
    • • Wetbook/slate and pencil
    • • Compass
    • • Weight system (if required)
    • • Lights and backup lights as required for dive environment


    The Learning Materials You'll 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 in between your tec diving adventures. You'll continue to use the Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak through Tec 50.

    For all your learning or eLearning materials and equipment, contact Blue Water Divers.


    Prerequisites

    You must:

    • Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • Be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • Have a minimum of 30 logged dives, of which at least 10 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres / 60 feet.
    • Have a medical form signed by your physician

    For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with one of the Blue Water Divers Team members.


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