PADI Tec 40
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PADI Tec 40 by PADI
PADI Tec 40 Course: Your First Step into Technical Diving!
Ready to move beyond recreational limits? The PADI Tec 40 course is where you begin your journey into technical diving. Serving as the first part of the full PADI Tec Diver program, this course bridges the gap between no-stop recreational diving and planned decompression technical diving. You'll gain valuable experience and start building the essential knowledge and skills needed for more advanced dives.
The Tec 40 course qualifies you to make limited decompression dives down to 40 meters/130 feet, using enriched air nitrox up to 50% for decompression. It's a challenging but rewarding step that enhances your diving capabilities.
Throughout knowledge development, three practical application sessions, and four training dives (often completed over a weekend), you'll learn about:
- Tec Diving Fundamentals: Understanding the risks and responsibilities involved.
- Technical Equipment: Properly rigging and setting up technical diving gear, often involving doubling up on equipment like cylinders and regulators.
- Planning for Tec Dives: Mastering gas planning, understanding oxygen limits, and basic decompression planning.
- Team Techniques & Emergencies: Practicing team diving procedures and handling simulated emergencies like free flows, manifold leaks, and out-of-gas situations.
Prerequisites:
To enroll in the Tec 40 course, you must meet all the following:
- Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification).
- Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or qualifying certification) with at least 10 logged dives using enriched air deeper than 18 meters/60 feet.
- Be a PADI Deep Diver (or qualifying certification) OR provide proof of at least 10 logged dives to 30 meters/100 feet.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Have a minimum of 30 logged dives.
- Have a current Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
- Have current DAN dive insurance (or equivalent).
Required Equipment:
This course requires a technical gear configuration:
- Backmount twin cylinders OR Sidemount cylinders (with appropriate harness/wing BCD)
- AL40 (40 cu ft) cylinder (or similar), oxygen clean, with regulator for decompression gas
- Two (2) dive computers or bottom timers (or one of each)
- Exposure suit appropriate for cold water diving
- Reel and lift bag or DSMB
- Two (2) cutting devices
- Underwater slate or wetnotes
- Compass
- Two (2) dive lights
- Backup buoyancy device (e.g., drysuit inflation, lift bag, or dual bladder wing)
- Backup mask
What's Not Included: eLearning course materials, rental gear (beyond standard course inclusion, if any), quarry entrance fees, gas fills.
Get Credit: You may be able to get college credit for the PADI Tec 40 course!
Ready to begin your technical diving journey? Contact Dive Right In Scuba to get your eLearning code and enroll online today!
Features
Key Topics
- First subdivision of the PADI Tec Diver course
- Bridges recreational and technical decompression diving
- Qualifies divers for: Limited decompression dives to 40 meters/130 feet using up to EANx 50 for decompression.
- Covers:
- Tec diving risks & responsibilities
- Technical equipment setup & rigging
- Gas planning, O2 limits, decompression planning
- Team diving techniques
- Emergency procedures (free flows, leaks, OOG)
- Structure:
- 3 knowledge development sections
- 3 practical application sessions
- 4 training dives
- Prerequisites:
- PADI AOW (or equiv.)
- PADI EANx Diver (or equiv.) + 10 EANx dives > 18m/60ft
- PADI Deep Diver (or equiv.) OR 10 dives > 30m/100ft
- Min. age 18
- 30+ logged dives
- Current Medical Statement (<12 mo)
- Current DAN Insurance (or equiv.)
- Required Equipment: Full technical setup (Twins/Sidemount, Deco Bottle/Reg, Redundant computers/timers, lights, cutting devices, backup buoyancy/mask, reel/lift bag/DSMB, etc.)
- Excluded: eLearning, Rental Gear, Quarry Fees, Gas Fills
- Outcome: PADI Tec 40 certification; foundational skills for further TecRec training.
- Potential for college credit.
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