Technical diving is a segment of the sport designed for the select few who wish to dive beyond recreational dive limits. It is incredibly challenging, requiring a significant investment in training and equipment. With the increased risks, and lower margins for error, focus and concentration throughout the planning and execution of the dive are critical. Through the TECREC curriculum, PADI/DSAT has designed state of the art training for divers interested in this increasingly popular sport.

Blue Horizons has three technical diving instructor trainers on staff. Each has extensive experience in technical diving in the North Atlantic and also in some of the world’s most exotic locations, like Bikini Atoll.

Our courses are taught in the Blue Horizons style of combining excellence with fun. The course begins with the basics in shallow water and builds to deep water adventures. Academics are learned through a combination of home study and classroom presentations with lots of hands on practice. Class size is extremely small due to the complex nature of training.

We offer two levels of certification for Tec divers, Apprentice Tec and Tec Deep. Apprentice Tec introduces divers to the planning and skills necessary for Tec diving. This course is perfect for those who either do not yet meet all of the prerequisites for Tec Deep. The Tec Deep course builds on the skills learned in Apprentice Tec and extends certification to 165’, and teaches multi stage decompression skills.

Prerequisites

Apprentice Tec prerequisites

•  Advanced certification or equivalent
•  18 years old
•  EAN certified for mixes other than just EAN32 & EAN36
•  Deep certification or equivalent
•  50 logged dives, with at least 10 using EAN, 12 deeper than 60 feet and 6 deeper than 100 feet

Tec Deep Diver prerequisites

• Advanced certification or equivalent
• Rescue Diver certification or equivalent
• 18 years old
• EAN certified for mixes other than just EAN32 & EAN36
• Deep certification or equivalent
• 100 logged dives, with at least 20 using EAN, 25 deeper than 60 feet and 15 deeper than 100 feet
  

Apprentice Tec Diver course overview:

•  Qualify diver to make gas-switch, extended no-stop dives to 130 feet using EAN mixes up to 60%.
•  Train the diver to use technical diving equipment.
•  Train the diver in the motor skills required for technical diving.
•  Assure the diver understands and acknowledges the hazards and risks involved with technical diving as well as the  limits of the training received in the course.
•  Train the diver to prepare and respond to reasonably foreseeable emergencies that may occur in this type of diving.
•  To provide the foundational skills and knowledge for completing the entire Tec Deep Diver course.

Apprentice Tec Diver course structure:

•  Minimum of four days
•  Read and complete sections one through four in the Deep Tec Diver manual.
•  Complete practical applications one through four.
•  Complete training dives one through seven.
•  Pass examination one.

Tec Deep Diver course overview:

•  All above and qualify diver to make decompression stop dives and accelerated decompression dives using air, enriched air and pure oxygen to a depth of 165 feet.

Tec Diver course structure:

•  Minimum of 6 days ( Apprentice Tec plus 2 additional days )
•  Read and complete sections one through six in the Deep Tec Diver manual.
•  Complete practical applications one through seven.
•  Complete training dives one through twelve.
•  Pass examination one and two.

Required materials for Apprentice Tec and Tec Deep Diver

•  DSAT Tec Deep Diver Manual
  
  

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