PADI Tec 45

PADI Tec 45 Course: Extend Your Depth and Decompression Skills

Ready to push your technical diving further? The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the comprehensive PADI Tec Deep Diver program, building directly on the skills you learned in Tec 40. This course marks a significant step, training you to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder with enriched air nitrox or pure oxygen.

In the Tec 45 course, you'll extend your depth limit to 45 meters / 150 feet. You'll focus on:

• Function & Maintenance: Deepening your understanding of technical diving equipment and its proper care.
• Advanced Planning: Fine-tuning gas planning skills and calculating accelerated decompression stops.
• Technical Mindset: Developing the critical thinking and problem-solving approach required for technical diving.

The course includes three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions, and four open water training dives where you'll apply your learning.

Optional Trimix Use:

Interested in managing narcosis at depth? Ask about the option to use Trimix (up to 40% helium in your back gas) during your Tec 45 course dives to reduce narcosis and gas density effects.

Prerequisites:

To enroll, you must:

• Be a PADI Tec 40 diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
• Be a PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification)
• Be at least 18 years old.
• Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, including:
• At least 12 dives using enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 meters/60 feet.
• At least 6 dives deeper than 30 meters/100 feet.
• Have a current Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
• Have current DAN dive insurance (or equivalent).

Required Equipment:

• 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: Rental Gear, Quarry entrance fees, Gas fills.

Dive Locations: We typically conduct this course at Wazee Lake, Gilboa Quarry, and Mermet Springs between April and November.

Commit to becoming a technical diver. Enroll in the PADI Tec 45 course online today!

Key Topics

• Second part of PADI Tec Deep Diver program
• Qualifies divers for: Repetitive decompression dives to 45 meters / 150 feet using a single stage/deco cylinder (EANx or O2).
• Covers:
  
  • Tec equipment function & maintenance
  • Gas planning for accelerated decompression stops
  • Thinking like a technical diver
  • Problem management
• Optional: Use of Trimix (up to 40% He) during course dives.
• Structure: 3 knowledge development sections, 3 practical application sessions, 4 open water dives
• Prerequisites:
  
  • PADI Tec 40 (or equiv.)
  • PADI Rescue Diver (or equiv.)
  • Min. age 18
  • 50+ logged dives (with specific EANx/Deep experience: 12+ EANx > 18m/60ft & 6+ dives > 30m/100ft)
  • 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: Rental Gear, Quarry Fees, Gas Fills
• Outcome: PADI Tec 45 certification; skills for planning/executing repetitive decompression dives to 150ft/45m with one deco gas.