The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It's a great place to start because it's the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver course and bridges the gap between no stop diving and full technical deep decompression diving. You gain experience and begin building the knowledge and skills you need to continue your tec diver training. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.

• Technical diving's risks and responsibilities

• Technical diving equipment, proper rigging and set up

• Gas planning, oxygen limits and decompression planning

• Team diving techniques and emergency procedures, such as dealing with free flows, manifold leaks and out of gas

• A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

• A PADI Enriched Air Diver with at least 10 dives using enriched air deeper than 18 metres/60 feet

• A PADI Deep Diver with at least 10 dives to 30 metres/100 feet

• At least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives

You also need to have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.

• Any one of the following appropriately labeled and marked options:

  • A single cylinder with a dual outlet valve (eg H valve or Y valve).

  • A single cylinder with single outlet valve and a pony bottle. Pony bottle should have same gas as main cylinder, or be breathable at the deepest planned dive depth. The minimum size cylinder is one with a free gas capacity of 30 cubic feet.

  • Back mounted doubles with dual isolator manifold

  • Two side mounted cylinders (sidemount configuration)

• Two complete regulators, one with a two meter/seven foot hose for air sharing and one with SPG. Where two, unmanifolded cylinders are used (sidemount or pony bottle), each regulator must have an SPG, carried and/or marked in such a way as to avoid confusion between them.

• Stage/deco cylinder with attachment hardware and a single second stage regulator and SPG.

• BCD with D-rings or other attachment points for a stage/deco cylinder. (See note below.)

• Two dive computers, or one computer with a backup timer and depth gauge with dive tables.

• Exposure suit appropriate for environment and dive duration (if students will use dry suits, they should be trained/experienced in their use in recreational diving prior to using them for tec training or diving).

• Argon dry suit inflation system (as needed for environment)

• Weight system (If required. Students should weight for the contingency of decompressing with near-empty cylinders.)

• Jon line (as needed for environment)

• Inflatable signal tube, whistle and/or other visual and audible surface signaling devices. Note that a sausage type DSMB may double for the inflatable signal tube.

• Reel and lift bag (bright yellow preferred) or DSMB. A suitable DSMB has sufficient buoyancy to help steady a diver during a drifting decompression, and is unlikely to spill when deployed from the underwater.

• Knife/cutting device and back up

• Slate

• Back up mask (optional)

• Compass

• Lights (optional as required for dive environment)

• Backup buoyancy control. The student must have a reliable means for controlling buoyancy and maintaining decompression stops in midwater with a failed primary BCD. This is usually accomplished with a backup BCD (double wings) or, when using light weight cylinders, the use of a dry suit is permitted.

Course Fee: $500.00
2 course package: Tec 40/45=$900
3 course package: Tec 40/45/50=$1350
(Fee and cancellation policy)

PADI Tec 40 class sessions are
held at Scuba Center in Eagan, Minnesota

Contact our Eagan location to schedule.
*Customized schedules available upon request.