Enroll in the most comprehensive technical diver training available in the Greater Vancouver area
The PADI Tec 45 will further develop skills learned in the Tec 40 stage of training to extend divers abilities. Successful students will be qualified to complete accelerated decompression divers using one decompression cylinder with enriched air or O2 to a maximum depth of 150 ft / 45 m (discussions about depth related narcosis and CO2 will be addressed in the course).
Course Overview
Your Tec 45 program through Ocean Quest, will teach you how to plan and execute dives with longer decompression obligations. You will also learn how to plan dives using O2 as a deco gas.
All students that enroll in the PADI Tec 45 program with Ocean Quest will receive training in the use of Helium and earn the PADI Tec 45 Trimix Certification.
Why Trimix?
When diving deeper than 130 ft / 40 m, or if you are doing dives that have a higher degree of task loading on dives between 100 ft / 30 m and 130 ft / 40 m, you may want to use a Trimix blend. Trimix will offer you two significant benefits, it will lower narcosis and it will decrease gas density. A decrease in gas density will improve your work of breathing and lower the risk of CO2 retention issues. Narcosis and CO2 retention can dramatically increase the risk of deep diving, especially when task loaded, stressed, or dealing with an emergency. We believe that every tech diver should have Trimix as an available tool available to them.
The Ocean Quest Difference…
For over the past 25 years, Ocean Quest is the only dive centre who has actively and consistently conducted technical diver training in the Greater Vancouver area. Like all of our courses, we will add many extras to your technical diver training beyond that of what is outlined in many technical programs.
Outside of the typical tech skills, we will continually focus on the foundational skills – buoyancy, trim, propulsion and awareness and how they apply to the technical diving environment. We are extremely detail oriented and will work with you until you have a solid execution of all the necessary skills of a tech diver. We will test and build upon your ability to problem solve as an individual and as a team member through scenario based failures and drills.
We are experts in decompression theory. All of our technical diving programs include extensive and up to date decompression theory so you have the knowledge and understanding on how to plan and execute decompression dives. We will guide you on how to apply decompression theory to your dive plans so you have full understanding of best practices and strategies for your technical dive planning. We don’t teach you to just blindly follow your computer or decompression software.
We exclusively teach specific team diving principles and “Human Factors” to improve the successful outcomes of your technical dives.
We guarantee that our technical diving programs are unmatched in the industry.
Prerequisites
- PADI Tec 40
- PADI Rescue Diver
- 10 dives deeper than 100 ft / 30 m
- Proof of 50 logged dives
- Minimum age: 18 years
Medical Statement
All technical diving students are required to provide a Diver Medical Statement signed by a physician within the past 12 months stating you are fit to dive
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Price Includes
- PADI Tec 45 eLearning
- 2 x Custom Technical Diving Theory Sessions
- 1 x Custom Decompression Theory and Technical Diving Planning Theory Session
- Minimum 6 x Technical Diving Training Dives (Standard Tec 45 Course only includes 4)
- Air Fills
Exclusive to Ocean Quest
- Access to multiple resources including digital books, articles and videos on various technical diving topics
- Instruction in Advanced Decompression Theory and Progressive Technical Dive Planning procedures
- A comprehensive “Decompression Theory and Dive Planning” booklet created by Ocean Quest
- A comprehensive “Technical Diving Student Handbook” created by Ocean Quest
What’s Needed?
- All Standard Technical Diving Equipment – Backmount or Sidemount Configuration – Click here for technical diving equipment details
- 1 x Decompression Cylinder with Regulator – Rentals available
- Nitrox and Tech Fills not included
- Trimix Fills
- Instructor Trimix Fills – the cost of instructor trimix fills will be shared by all students and instructor candidates
Additional Notes
Students are required to possess a high level of buoyancy control while maintaining horizontal trim, advanced propulsion techniques including modified frog kicking, modified flutter kicking, helicopter turns and back finning. The ability to maintain a stable position in the water.
Ocean Quest technical diver training programs adhere to a strong team diving philosophy. Learning Team Diving techniques within your technical training will add a completely new level of skills, awareness, challenge and safety to your technical diving. In order to maintain the quality of training, we require a minimum of two students to be enrolled in most of our technical diving programs.