Tec 50 Course

What’s it about?
The Tec 50 course completes your training as an entry-level Tec diver, taking you past the limits of recreational diving.

What you need to be/do BEFORE joining the course

• PADI Tec 45 Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  
• PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  
• Provide proof of training in CPR and First Aid within the previous two years
  
• At least 18 years old
  
• Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, of which
  
• 20 dives must be enriched air dives deeper than 18m
  
• At least 15 dives must be deeper than 30 meters – with or without Nitrox
  
• Have a medical statement signed by your physician
  
• What you’ll be doing
  
• Make actual decompression dives as deep as 50 metres/165 feet
  
• Use enriched air Nitrox and/or pure oxygen for decompression
  
• Use desk top decompression software to create custom dive tables and plan your dives
  
• Qualify to make technical decompression dives independently
  
• Plan and execute your own missions
  
• You'll use the same Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak and discuss
  
• Unresponsive divers at depth
  
• Tec pool diving...
  
• Decompression sickness/illness
  
• How to broaden you limits
  
• Introduction to trimix

Crew-Pak

The Tec Deep Diver Crew-Pak which includes a manual, dive planning checklist and dive planning slate. The optional Equipment Set-up and Key Skills video on DVD is a great tool to help you practice at home in between your Tec diving adventures.

Gear and stuff you’ll need and dive with

• Double cylinder of at least12 L each, with isolator manifold (the isolator manifold is not required for divers using sidemount configuration)
  
• Primary and secondary regulators for back mounted double manifolds, one with two meters hose and one with SPG
  
• Stage/decompression cylinder(s) (1 for Tec 45, 2 for Tec 50) with regulator and SPG, with proper labels/markings
  
• Tec diving BCD and harness (backmount or sidemount)
  
• Two multigas enriched air capable dive computers, or one multigas enriched air computer and back up single gas computer with dive tables, or one single gas enriched air computer and backup timer and depth gauge with dive tables
  
• Exposure suit appropriate for environment and dive duration
  
• Argon dry suit inflation system as needed for environment
  
• Weight system (if needed)
  
• Jon line (as needed for environment)
  
• Inflatable signal tube, whistle and or other visual and audible surface signaling devices
  
• Reel and lift bag (bright yellow preferred) or DSMB
  
• Knife/cutting device and back up
  
• Slate
  
• Compass
  
• Back up mask (optional)
  
• Lights (optional as required for dive environment)
  
• Backup buoyancy control (a lift bag/DSMB is not considered a reliable method of backup buoyancy control)