Tec 40 Diver Course

The Tec 40 Diver course consists of seven knowledge development sections, four practical applications, and four training dives.

You'll learn about:

• Technical diving risks and responsibilities
• Technical diving equipment, proper rigging, and setup.
• Gas planning, oxygen limits, and decompression planning.
• Technical diving techniques and emergency procedures, such as dealing with free flows, manifold leaks and out of gas situations

Prequisites

• Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organisation)
• Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organisation)
• Be a PADI Deep Diver  (or hold a qualifying certification from another organisation)
• Have a minimum of 30 logged dives, of which at least 10 dives were made with enriched air below 18m
• Have obtained an Australian Standard Dive Medical from a dive doctor.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Use decompression software, and dive computers, to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total compression, to 40 metres
• Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50% opxygen to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Required materials:

• PADI Tec 40 e-Learning
  
  

What's included:

• Tuition, including 1 confined water dive, 4 open water dives
• Air fills

Not included:

• Mixed Gases
• Transport
• gear rental
• Required knowledge development materials

What's next?

Now that you've completed Tec 40, you can continue onto Tec 45. If you don't yet meet the prerequisites, you can get on one of our dive trips to log the experience you need.