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    Tec 45 Course with Blue Water Divers

    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 subcourse in the full PADI Tec Diver course


    What You Learn

    • The skills and equipment and planning need to dive to a maximum of 45 metres/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
    • The Scuba Gear You Use
    • You use basic tec diving equipment


    The Learning Materials You 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 the Tec 50 course.

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

     

    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


    Prerequisites

    You must be:

    • A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • A PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • A PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • A PADI Deep Diver (or hold aqualifying certification from another organization)
    • PADI Tec 40 (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
    • Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least:
      • 12 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
      • 6 (with or without EANx) dives were deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
    • At least 18 years old
    • Have a medical statement signed by a 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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