Do you want to go beyond the limits of recreational diving? Visit deeper dive sites and have more bottom time by exceeding the no-decompression limits! This requires another approach to diving: more serious‚ more planned‚ more calculated and without any tolerance for errors. Take your first step in technical diving in Ustica with Evasioni Blu Diving and discover what it means to be a technical diver!
PADI TEC 40 Program
What you'll learn during your PADI TEC40 diver course:
- What is technical diving and what it means to be a responsible TEC diver.
- How to assemble‚ use and check the proper functioning of technical diving equipment.
- How to calculate and use the SAC (Surface Air Consumption) rate‚ the partial pressures of the gases‚ volumes and pressures of a cylinder and the MOD (Maximum Operating Depth).
- Dive with no more than 10 minutes of decompression up to a maximum depth of 40 meters.
- Use a single cylinder with decompression gas containing maximum EANx50 (oxygen up to 50%) to make the necessary decompression more conservative.
- Use Deco software to plan dives.
- The procedures to be followed in an emergency during technical diving.
The PADI TEC40 Diver course is divided into three main parts:
- Knowledge development (individual and classroom study).
- Three practical applications in the classroom.
- Four open water dives to practice technical diving skills.
PADI TEC40 Prerequisits
To enroll for the PADI TEC40 diver course you need to be at least 18 years old and an Advanced Open Water Diver with specialty certifications in Enriched Air Nitrox and Deep Diving. You need to have at least 30 logged dives‚ from which 10 with nitrox to a depth deeper than 18 metres.
Credit/Certification PADI TEC 40
By completing your course‚ you will receive your PADI TEC 40 Diver certification‚ which will allow you to dive up to 40m‚ with a maximum of 10 minutes of decompression and using only one EANx50 Max decompression gas‚ without accelerated decompression. This certification is a prerequisite for enrolling in the PADI TEC 45 course.
