About the Course

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.

Prerequisites:

• 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)
• A PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
• 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