Tec Deep

When deep just isn’t deep enough.

 

Tec 40
This course introduces you to the basic skills techniques for technical diving and familiarizes you with the standardized technical rig to build a base for continued education in technical diving.

You’ll learn to:

  • Use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives on St Croix’s walls with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 130 feet
  • Use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50% oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.
  • Dive in a full technical rig, including double cylinders for back gas, redundant regulators, and redundant BCD

Prerequisites……you must:

  • Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Have a minimum of 30 logged dives, of which at least 10 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 60 feet.
  • Have a medical form signed by your physician

Tec 45

The Tec 45 course picks up where Tec 40 leaves off and takes your training as a tec diver further and deeper. It is the second subcourse in the full PADI Tec Diver course

You’ll learn to:

  • Use the skills and equipment and planning needed to dive to a maximum of 145 feet
  • Use that knowledge to plan and execute single and repetitive decompression dives using a single stage cylinder of EANx or oxygen to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression stops. (There would be no time limit to amount of decompression)
  • Prepare for and respond to foreseeable technical diving emergencies
  • Master the basic skills and procedures you’ll need as you move into deeper technical diving.

Prerequisites….you must

  • Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Tec 40 (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least: – 12 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 60 feet – 6 (with or without EANx) dives were deeper than 100 feet
  • At least 18 years old
  • Have a medical statement signed by a physician

Tec 50

The Tec 50 course completes your training as an entry-level tec diver, taking you past the limits of recreational diving.

What You’ll Learn:

  • To make actual decompression dives as deep as 165 feet
  • To use enriched air nitrox and/or oxygen for decompression
  • To use desk top decompression software to create custom dive tables and plan your dives
  • To qualify to make technical decompression dives independently

Prerequisites….you must:

  • Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a DSAT Tec 45 Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Have a minimum of 100 logged dives
  • At least 20 of those dives must be enriched air dives
  • At least 25 of those dives must be deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
  • At least 20 of those dives must be deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Have a medical statement signed by your physician

tec deep diving with st croix scuba

How much does technical diving cost?

A lot.  (We’re just being honest…)

Because of the extensive equipment requirements, expensive mixed gasses, and extensive training, technical diving can take a significant chunk of change to get into. We try our best to make it less painful, though, and can offer very reasonable training packages.

 

 

Tec 40, 45 and 50
$700.00 per person per module

Full Tec Deep Course
Combines Tec 40,45, and 50 into one course
$2000.00 for one student

How long does it take?

Each module consists of 4 dives, and can be completed in 3-4 days, depending on logistics. The full Tec Deep course typically takes 9-10 days.

 

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