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 tec 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.

• Be a PADI Tec 45 diver

• Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, with at least 20 dives on enriched air Nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 15 dives deeper than 30 metres/100 feet

• Be at least 18 years old

You also need to have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.

• Double cylinders of at least 12 l/70 cf each, with isolator manifold. The isolator manifold is not required for divers using sidemount configuration. Divers known to have a very low gas consumption rate may, at the instructor's discretion, use lower capacity cylinders than specified here, provided the diver will have ample gas to assist a team mate in a gas sharing emergency.

• Primary and secondary regulators for back mounted double manifolds, one with two meter/seven foot hose for air sharing and one with SPG. Note: In sidemount configuration, one regulator must have the two meter/seven foot hose, and both regulators must have an SPG.

• Stage/decompression cylinder(s) (1 for Tec 45, 2 for Tec 50) with regulator and SPG, with proper labels/markings.

• Tec diving BCD(s) and harness (backmount or sidemount)

• Two multigas enriched air capable dive computers, or one multigas enriched air computer and a back up single gas computer with dive tables, or one single gas enriched air computer and a backup timer and depth gauge with dive tables.

• Exposure suit appropriate for environment and dive duration (if students will use dry suits, they should be trained/experienced in their use in recreational diving prior to using them for tec training or diving).

• Argon dry suit inflation system (as needed for environment)

• Weight system (If required. Students should weight for the contingency of decompressing with near-empty cylinders.)

• Jon line (as needed for environment)

• Inflatable signal tube, whistle and/or other visual and audible surface signaling devices. Note that a sausage type DSMB may double for the inflatable signal tube.

• Reel and lift bag (bright yellow preferred) or DSMB. A suitable DSMB has sufficient buoyancy to help steady a diver during a drifting decompression, and is unlikely to spill when deployed from the underwater.

• Knife/cutting device and back up

• Slate

• Back up mask (optional)

• Compass

• Lights (optional as required for dive environment)

• Backup buoyancy control. The student must have a reliable means for controlling buoyancy and maintaining decompression stops in midwater with a failed primary BCD. This is usually accomplished with a backup BCD (double wings) or, when using light weight cylinders, the use of a dry suit is permitted.

Course Fee: $500.00
2 course package: Tec 45/50=$900
3 course package: Tec 40/45/50=$1350
(Fee and cancellation policy)

PADI Tec 50 class sessions are
held at Scuba Center in Eagan, Minnesota

Contact our Eagan location to schedule.
*Customized schedules available upon request.