PADI Tec Sidemount Diver

Sidemount is an increasingly popular way to configure multiple cylinders for technical diving. You can enter the world of tec diving with the Tec Sidemount Diver course and apply what you learn to other TecRec courses. You’ll learn about the advantages of diving with a sidemount configuration and how to set up a tec sidemount harness. You’ll get hands-on training during one confined water session and four open water dives where you’ll start with two tanks and finish with five cylinders.

Existing recreational Sidemount Divers can upgrade to Tec Sidemount over two days and three training dives for Php22,800.

PADI Tec Basics Distinctive Specialty

The PADI Tec Basics Distinctive Specialty course is a bridge from recreational to technical diving, providing you with an opportunity to gain exposure to technical diving and learn and practice entry level tec diving skills. If you are not sure whether you are ready for the commitment and skills necessary for becoming a technical diver, Tec Basics is a perfect opportunity to find out. Should you fall in love with technical diving (as many do), then Tec Basics offers credit toward the PADI Tec 40 course.

PADI Tec 40

The PADI Tec 40 course is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It’s a great place to start because it’s the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver course and bridges the gap between no stop diving and full technical deep decompression diving. You gain experience and begin building the knowledge and skills you need to continue your tec diver training. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet. You may dive with backmounted or sidemounted cylinders.

The Tec 40 course consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four training dives. You’ll learn about technical diving’s risks and responsibilities; technical diving equipment; proper rigging and set up; gas planning, oxygen limits and decompression planning; team diving techniques and emergency procedures, such as dealing with free flows, manifold leaks and out of gas situations.

PADI Tec 45

The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. You’ll extend your depth limit to 45 metres/145 feet and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder. It puts you in a complete tec diving rig, which can be either backmount or sidemount. You’ll also make accelerated decompression dives using EANx or pure oxygen. This is a course where you’ll rise to the challenge and make the commitment to become a technical diver.

Your Tec 45 training consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four open water dives. Building on what you learned in the Tec 40 course, you focus on the function and maintenance of tec diving equipment and associated issues. You continue fine-tuning gas planning and calculating accelerated decompression stops. Plus, you learn to think like a technical diver. You will use full technical equipment, which includes wings and doubles plus an additional deco cylinder, or you may use a technical sidemount configuration.

PADI Tec 50

The third part of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program is Tec 50. As a Tec 50 diver, you show that you’ve developed competency as a technical diver and have the skills to dive to a maximum of 50 metres/165 feet. You know how to make extended, accelerated decompression stops using up to two gases. It’s not easy to reach this level and earning your Tec 50 certification opens the door to deeper diving expeditions.

The Tec 50 course includes two knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four open water dives. A primary focus of this course is mission planning and execution. You also learn more about handling emergencies and how to think like a technical diver. You’ll use full technical equipment and you may use a technical sidemount configuration, plus two stage/decompression cylinders.

PADI Tec 40/45/50

Ready to go all the way? The entire PADI Tec 40/45/50 (formerly known as PADI Tec Deep), when combined, is a powerful training programme that will have you competent to a maximum of 50 metres/165 feet, and making extended, accelerated decompression stops using up to two gases in full technical equipment.