The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You'll extend your depth limit to 45 meters/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.

• 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 18 meters/60 feet and 10 dives deeper than 30 meters/100 feet

• Be at least 18 years old

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

• Double cylinders of at least 12 l/70 cf each, with isolator manifold. The isolator manifold is not required for divers using sidemount configuration. Divers known to have a very low gas consumption rate may, at the instructor's discretion, use lower capacity cylinders than specified here, provided the diver will have ample gas to assist a team mate in a gas sharing emergency.

• Primary and secondary regulators for back mounted double manifolds, one with two meter/seven foot hose for air sharing and one with SPG. Note: In sidemount configuration, one regulator must have the two meter/seven foot hose, and both regulators must have an SPG.

• Stage/decompression cylinder(s) (1 for Tec 45, 2 for Tec 50) with regulator and SPG, with proper labels/markings.

• Tec diving BCD(s) and harness (backmount or sidemount)

• Two multigas enriched air capable dive computers, or one multigas enriched air computer and a back up single gas computer with dive tables, or one single gas enriched air computer and 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 or Tec 45/50=$900
3 course package: Tec 40/45/50=$1350
(Fee and cancellation policy)

PADI Tec 45 class sessions are
held at Scuba Center in Eagan, Minnesota

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