Tech Combo (PADI T40,T45 & T50)
฿60,000.00
PADI’s Tech courses provide training that will allow students to do deep decompression dives to a depth of 50 meters.
The courses incorporate diving with a twin set and also stage/deco cylinders. Students will use enriched air blends consisting of up to 100% O2. This can improve the safety of the dive or speed up the decompression schedule.
Thailand is an ideal place to take Tec courses due to the variety of Tec and wreck diving spots including around Koh Tao and Koh Lipe (our locations).
Below is a breakdown of what the Tec Deep course consists of.
The pre-requisites needed to take a Tec Deep course are:
- Advanced Open Water & Rescue Diver certification
- Enriched Air & Deep Diver Specialties
- You will also need to have logged at least 100 dives including 20 enriched air dives, 25 dives deeper than 18 meters and 15 dives deeper than 30 meters.
- The minimum age to start this course is 18 years old
For divers who are interested in taking the Tec Deep course but don’t meet all the prerequisites, it’s no problem. If you contact us with your current diving details and certification we will be happy to help help you reach the required standard to start the course.
DJL owner Tim Lawrence has many years of experience as a technical diver and instructor. Away from teaching, his passion is wreck discovery, and he has an impressive list of located wrecks to his name. These include airplanes, tankers, WW2 wrecks, commercial vessels, and even a Roman wreck. Julia Alberione is a female pioneer in technical diving with over 20 years of experience in the diving industry.
With this background, students are guaranteed an exceptionally high level of training from someone who truly understands and respects the potential dangers of tech diving.
The Tec Deep course
Tec deep training consists of several parts. There are academics and shallow water skills, followed by dives that get progressively deeper.
The course duration is usually 10 days and includes 12 dives, but we are happy to extend the time needed if students require it.
What is covered during the Tec Deep course?
Tec Deep Theory
Firstly Students will study Tec deep theory, which includes;
- Tech diving equipment configuration
- Risks & Responsibilities
- Gas & dive planning
- Emergency procedures
- Techniques & procedures
This will cover topics such as:
- Decompression sickness/field neuro exams
- Deco planning & NOTOX Gas switches, gas matching
- Narcosis management
- Equipment maintenance, oxygen compatibility
- MODs, dive planning, dive objectives & runtimes
- Principles for surviving a tech dive!
Shallow water skills
In shallow water, training skills & drills will include the following:
- Bubble & descent checks
- Buoyancy control with tech gear
- Deploying lift bags, use of reels
- Determining SAC rate
- Gas shutdown drills
- Long hose gas sharing
- NOTOX gas switches
- Weight checks
Our aim is to get you completely comfortable in shallow water. After which we progress to deeper dives.
Open Water Tech Dives
Students will build up experience during technical dives which will take place around Koh Tao at various wreck and pinnacles.
The final part of the Tec Deep course will be at the Unicorn Wreck which lies to the north of Koh Tao. You will get to do 2 deep deco dives to a depth of 50 meters.
All the training you received in the shallow water will be put into practice. Upon completion of the dives you will be ready to receive your DSAT Tec Deep diver certification.
The cost of the Tec Deep course is 60,000 THB.
The price of the course includes the following;
- PADI E-learning (Tech 40, Tech 45 and Tech 50)
- Use of all technical diving equipment
- Tec 40, 45 and 50 certifications
- Training dives and gasses