PADI Tec 50 Course

Tec 50 Course

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

What You Learn

• Make actual decompression dives as deep as 50 metres/165 feet
• Use enriched air nitrox and/or oxygen for decompression
• Use desk top decompression software to create custom dive tables and plan your dives
• Qualify to make technical decompression dives independently

The Scuba Gear You Use

You use basic tec diving equipment

The Learning Materials You Need

The Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak, which introduces you to tec diving lingo, emergency procedures, decompression and stage cylinder handling and gas planning. The pak includes a manual, dive planning checklist and dive planning slate. The optional Equipment Set-up and Key Skills video on DVD is a great tool to help you practice at home in between your tec diving adventures.

Prerequisites

You must be

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