PADI Tec 40

The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational diving to technical diving. It's a natural progression from Tec Basics, or it can be your first tec diver course. It is the bridge between no stop diving and technical decompression diving. You will 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 and use up to 50 percent oxygen as a decompression gas.

To enroll in the Tec 40 course, you must meet these qualifications:

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (PADI Rescue Diver recommended)
• PADI Enriched Air Diver
• PADI Deep Diver or proof of 10 dives to 30 metres/100 feet or deeper
• 30 logged dives
• 18 years old

• Technical diving risks and responsibilities
• Technical diving equipment, dive equipment configuration, and use
• Team diving and communication
• Decompression and gas planning using dive planning software  
• Team diving techniques and emergency procedures to deal with free flows and out of gas situations
• Thinking Like a Technical Diver
• Handling Underwater Problems
• Introduction to Trimix (for Tec 40 Trimix students)

Tec 40 Trimix (option)
Curious about the benefits of using Trimix gas, like decreased gas density and reduced narcosis? Tec 40 divers can also learn to use trimix with not less than 21 percent oxygen and not more than 35 percent helium.

• Twintanks / sidemount cylinders
• Two independet regulators
• Decocylinder
• Suit filling cylinder (only for Trimix option)
• BCD (compatible with cylinder configuration)
• Backup mask
• Visual and audible surface signaling devices
• Tuplapullot / sidemount säiliöt
• DSMB / Liftbag (2 recommended)
• Knife/cutting device
• Wetbook/slate and pencil
• Compass
• Primary light, and backup light