TEC 45 Takes your training as a tec diver further and deeper

The Tec 45 Course with Blue Planet

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 Deep 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 Required
• 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

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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