PADI Tec 45​


Requirements
Your Tec 45 training consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four open water dives. Building on what you learned in the Tec 40 course, you focus on the function and maintenance of tec diving equipment and associated issues. You continue fine-tuning gas planning and calculating accelerated decompression stops. Plus, you learn to think like a technical diver.​

The Scuba Gear You Use
Students MUST have their own Scuba Kit.

You'll use full technical equipment, which includes wings and doubles plus an additional deco cylinder, or you may use a technical sidemount configuration. 

What is Included
Tuition for PADI Tec45 certification is : $400 this includes:

- 2 to 3 Classroom Sessions

- 1 Day of Diving at Fantasy Lake (you are responsible for $25 park entry fee)

- 1 DIve Charter with your Instructor (you are responsible for DIve Charter Fee)

​- Issuing of your PADI Tec45 eCard


The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You'll extend your depth limit to 145 feet and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder. It puts you in a complete tec diving rig, which can be either backmount or sidemount. You'll also make accelerated decompression dives using EANx or pure oxygen. This is a course where you'll rise to the challenge and make the commitment to become a technical diver.


Prerequisites
To enroll in the Tec 45 course, you must:
- Be a PADI Tec 40 diver
- Be a PADI Rescue Diver
- Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, with at least 12 dives on enriched air nitrox deeper than 60 feet and 6 dives deeper than 100 feet
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months