PADI Tec 40

Start your journey and become a Legend of Technical Diving

Are you interested in Technical Diving, but aren’t quite sure yet if you will like it? Start with the PADI Tec 40 course and find out if you want to follow the path of legends.

Learn the basics and decompression techniques to immerse yourself in depth.

This course is designed to help you get started in the world of Technical Diving. It corresponds to the first part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver course.

You start gaining knowledge, experience and skills to continue your tec diver training. We take you one step beyond the limits of recreational scuba diving.

What does the PADI Tec 40 course include?

During four days of training, you will participate in several knowledge development sections, practical assessments and open water dives.

Your instructor will introduce you to technical diving’s risks and responsibilities, explain you about the use and set up of the technical diving equipment. You plan your gas supply, oxygen limits and decompression. You learn about special team diving techniques and emergency procedures.

You will be qualified to use decompression software and dive computers to plan and perform decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 metres.

You will be entitled to use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Your PADI Tec 40 course training credits toward the PADI Tec 45 course or PADI Tec 50 courses.

• Duration: 4 days + theory

• Prerequisites:

  • 18 years old
  • 30 logged dives, 10 dives on enriched air and deeper than 18m. If prerequisites not fulfilled yet, we could implement the needed training prior to starting your course.
  • Advanced Open Water Diver, Deep Diver and Nitrox Certification
  • Medically fit for diving

Always included:

• PADI materials or access to PADI eLearning
• Water and snacks
• Maximum of 2 divers per group
• Passionate and experienced instructors