This is a course where you rise to the challenge and commit to becoming a technical diver. The PADI Tec 45 course extends your depth limit to 45 metres/150 feet. You will learn to plan and execute single and repetitive decompression dives using a single decompression cylinder with up to 100 percent oxygen. You will use double cylinders, which can be either back mount or sidemount diving configuration. Tec 45 is a prerequisite to Tec 50. There is also an option for divers to earn a Tec 45 Trimix Diver certification.
Your Tec 45 training consists of seven knowledge development sections, four practical application sessions and four open water dives. Building on what you learned in the Tec 40 course, you will focus on additional techniques, procedures, and emergency skills. You will learn more advanced decompression, gas planning, decompression models, and fine-tune your thinking like a technical diver.
You'll use full technical diving equipment which includes wings and doubles plus an additional deco cylinder, or you may use a technical sidemount configuration. Your PADI Tec 45 Instructor will explain the dive equipment required for your tec diving adventures.
Required Equipment:
· Backmount or sidemounted twin cylinder with harness and wing
· AL40 oxygen clean cylinder with regulator
· Two computers or bottom timers
· Exposure suit appropriate for cold water diving
· Reel and liftbag or dsmb
· Two utting devices
· Slate
· Compass
· Two lights
· Backup bouyancy device (drysuit, liftbag, or dual bladder wing)
· Backup mask