PADI® Tec 40

Move beyond no stop dives and get started with decompression diving to 40 m.

PADI® Tec 40

Move beyond no stop dives and get started with decompression diving to 40 m.

Start your technical diving journey with the PADI® Tec 40 course. No prior Tec diving experience is needed to start this course.

How it works

The PADI® Tec 40 course consists of 7 knowledge development sections:

"Technical diving risks and responsibilities"

"Technical diving equipment, dive equipment configuration, and use"

"Team diving and communication"

"Decompression and gas planning using dive planning software"

"Team diving techniques and emergency procedures to deal with free flows and out of gas situations"

"Thinking Like a Technical Diver"

"Handling Underwater Problems"

In addition, the course consists of 4 practical application sessions and 4 training dives.

What you'll be qualified to do

Make limited decompression dives to 40 m.

Use up to 50 % oxygen as a decompression gas.

Pre-requisites

Participants must be aged ≥ 18 years.

Participants must have a PADI® Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Participants must have a PADI® Enriched Air Diver certification.

Participants must either have a PADI® Deep Diver certification or be able to prove they have dived 10 × to a depth of 30 m.

Participants must have completed 30 logged dives.

You must be medically fit to dive. Participants must have a completed Diver Medical Participant Questionnaire signed by a medical doctor ≤ 12 months ago.

Recommendation: we recommend having the PADI® Rescue Diver certification before commencing this course.

If you're interested in this course and have certifications from a different training agency, you may meet the pre-requisites for this course. Please contact us to find out more.

Enrol in your PADI® Tec 40 course

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