PADI TecRec Divers Courses
Training Divers to Dive Deeper & Longer, Safely!

PADI Tec Diving
At forty five metres deeper than most recreational scuba divers ever go, you reach the wreck of a merchant ship few will ever see. Gloves guard your hands, but you grip carefully amid the torn, outward splayed sheet metal of her mortal wound. At your touch, from somewhere deep in your psyche, you feel the explosion that killed this ship. You hear it echo through the decades, reverberating in the official reports and the black-and white films. Past becomes present and history lives as you feel the steel that once cut the waves in the name of commerce.
No book, no picture nor story can do this, only being there. And that’s when you decide that everything it took to get you there, the years of experience, the weeks of training, the hours of planning, the money and the risk was worth it.
Twenty five minutes fly by. Time to go. You look to your team mates, already giving thumbs up. Together you head up. Above, the surface is far, far away. Your computer tells you that this dive will cost more than hour in hang time, though you’ll reduce that a bit when you switch gases at 9 metres/30 feet.
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Want to know more? Check out the courses listed below.
PADI TecRec Courses
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Discover Tec Diving
Is Tec Diving for you? Before you invest in your own technical diving equipment its worth doing a dive or two using technical equipment. The Discover Tec Diving experience can be used to see if diving with twin sets or even side mount cylinders is for you.Â
Tec diving is for experienced divers that will need certain qualifications to complete each stage but to qualify for a Discover Tec Dive all you need is an Open Water Diver qualification and a minimum of 10 logged dives. This is a minimum standard but anyone with less that 50 logged dives will need to complete a single set dive to show that they are competent with buoyancy and other basic skills.

Tec 40
The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It’s a great place to start because it’s the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver course and bridges the gap between no stop diving and full technical deep decompression diving. You gain experience and begin building the knowledge and skills you need to continue your tec diver training. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.
To enroll in the Tec 40 course, you must be:
A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
A PADI Enriched Air Diver with at least 10 dives using enriched air deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
A PADI Deep Diver or proof of at least 10 dives to 30 metres/100 feet
At least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives
You also need to have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.

Tec 45
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 metres/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.
To enroll in the Tec 45 course, you must:
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 metres/60 feet and 6 dives deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
Be at least 18 years old
Have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
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Tec 50
The third part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program is Tec 50. As a Tec 50 diver, you show that you’ve developed competency as a tec diver and have the skills to dive to a maximum of 50 metres/165 feet. You know how to make extended, accelerated decompression stops using up to two gases. It’s not easy to reach this level and earning your Tec 50 certification opens the door to deeper diving expeditions.
To enroll in the Tec 50 course, you must:
Be a PADI Tec 45 diver
Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, with at least 20 dives on enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 15 dives deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
Be at least 18 years old
Have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
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Tec Sidemount Diver
If you’ve looked into technical diving, you realize that tec divers always wear more than one tank. Sidemount is an increasingly popular way to configure multiple cylinders for technical diving. You can enter the world of tec diving with the Tec Sidemount Diver course and apply what you learn to other TecRec courses. Your instructor may offer to integrate this course with the Tec 40, Tec 45 or Tec 50 courses.
If you’re a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, at least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives, you qualify to enroll in a Tec Sidemount Diver course. It’s recommended that you also have a PADI Enriched Air Diver certification.