Tec 45
Certification for up to 100% O2 decompression gas up to 150 feet
Class cost include shore dives. Boat dives are optional.
Includes e-learning materials, certification and custom scheduling.
Prerequisites before starting the Tec 45 course:
Student divers must meet the following prerequisites before starting the Tec 45 course:
Certified as a Tec 40 diver or provide a qualifying certification from another training organization. For the purposes of this level, a qualifying technical certification is one that qualifies the student to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet using air and EANx using open circuit scuba equipment.
Certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or provide a qualifying certification from another training organization. For this course, a qualifying certification is proof of training in diver rescue. Students who meet this prerequisite through a qualifying certification must provide proof of training in CPR and First Aid within the previous two years.
Minimum age: 18 years.
Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least 12 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet, and at least 6 (with or without EANx) dives were deeper than 30 metres/100 feet.
Class cost include shore dives. Boat dives are optional.
Includes e-learning materials, certification and custom scheduling.
PADI Tec 45 is the second step in PADI's technical diving track, extending the decompression diving skills built in Tec 40 into deeper, more demanding territory.
Prerequisites: PADI Tec 40 Diver and PADI Rescue Diver certification, a minimum of 50 logged dives (with at least 10 of those past 100ft), and you must be 18 or older. You'll also need a Diver Medical Form signed by a physician within the past 12 months, and current CPR/First Aid training (within the past two years).
Course structure: 3 knowledge development sections and confined water practical sessions, followed by 4 open water training dives — typically completed over about 3 days.
What it certifies you to do: extend your depth limit to 150ft/45m, planning and executing single and repetitive decompression dives using decompression gas with up to 100% oxygen (compared to the 50% cap in Tec 40).
Equipment jump: this is where divers move from a single stage bottle into double cylinders — back-mount or sidemount configuration — managing independent tanks, isolator/manifold procedures, and true gas redundancy for the first time.
What it's for: it's the required prerequisite for Tec 50, and it's the point where technical diving really starts feeling like its own discipline rather than an extension of recreational diving — deeper wrecks, more complex decompression planning, and multi-gas switches all come into play.