PADI TecRec - Tec 50

Technical diving, scuba diving’s “extreme” sport.

The PADI Tec 50 course will complete your training as an entry-level Tec diver, taking you past the limits of recreational diving.  During the course you’ll make actual decompression dives as deep as 50m/165feet and use EANx and/or oxygen for your decompression stops.  You will also use desk top decompression software to create custom dive tables and plan your dives.  Upon completion of the course you will be able to make technical decompression dives independently.

Equipment required:

You’ll use your technical scuba equipment.

 PADI Tec diver with stage cylinders training at Plymouth Diving Centre

 

Prerequisites for the Tec 50 course, you must:

  • Be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver  (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Rescue Diver  (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver  (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • A PADITec 45 Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, of which
        · 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
  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Have a medical statement  signed by your physician