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Tec Apprentice Diver
For those who are interested in Tec Deep Diver but don't have time for the full course or don't meet the prerequisites yet.

Price (2 people = $1200)

$800

Includes: Tec Deep Student Crew-Pak (consists of student manual, planning slate and checklist slate)
Day 1: Full day class
Day 2: Dives 1-3 (8-30 feet)
Day 3: Dives 4-5 (40-80 feet)
Day 4: Dives 6-7 (two-level, 80/45-110/60 feet)

Prerequisties

PADI Advanced Open Water
PADI Enriched Air
PADI Deep Diver
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min. 50 logged dives, 10 enriched air dives, 12 dives deeper than 60 feet, and 6 dives deeper than 100 feet
min. 18-years-old
Certification
You'll learn to make gas-switch, extended no-decompression dives using air and enriched air to 130 feet. You'll also prepare for and respond to forseeable technical diving emergencies. Since it's part of the Tec Deep Diver course, you can use your Apprentice Tec Dive course credits toward Tec Deep Diver.
Tec Deep Diving
This course takes you past the basic skills of recreational diving and delves you into a world of technical diving with depths up to 165 feet, warranting a higher level of performance and precision! A tec dive is "any dive that exceeds the recreational limit of 130 feet, that is within an overhead environment, either virtual or literal, using gases other than air and using accelerated gases for the facilitation of decompression." Training also includes how to respond to forseeable emergencies that could occur.

Price (From start to finish, 2 people = $2000)

$1400
Those who are already Apprentice Tec start at Day 5. (2 people = $1200)
$800

Includes: Tec Deep Student Crew-Pak (consists of student manual, planning slate and checklist slate)
Day 1: Full day class
Day 2: Dives 1-3 (8-30 feet)
Day 3: Dives 4-5 (40-80 feet)
Day 4: Dives 6-7 (two-level, 80/45-110/60 feet)
Day 5: Full or half day class
Day 6: Dives 8-9 (90-140 feet)
Day 7: Dives 10-11 (120-165 feet)
Day 8: Dive 12 (145-165 feet)

Prerequisties

PADI Advanced Open Water
PADI Enriched Air
PADI Deep Diver
DSAT Apprentice Tec Diver
PADI Rescue Diver
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min. 100 logged dives, 20 enriched air dives, 25 dives deeper than 60 feet, and 15 dives deeper than 100 feet
min. 18-years-old
Certification
After successful completion of the Tec Deep Diver course, you'll be able to conduct gas-switch extended no-decompression dives, decompression dives and accelerated decompression dives using air and enriched air to a depth of 165 feet. You'll also understand the hazards and risks associated with technical diving, as well as how to prepare for and handle reasonable forseeable emergencies.
Tec Trimix Diver
Trimix affords a safer means for deep water exploration. This is a course for divers who must dive deep or perform with clear heads at intermediate depths.

Price (2 people = $2000)

$1400

Includes: Tec Trimix Student Manual and Tec Deep Diver Manual
Day 1: Full day class and Dive 1 (60 feet, air/enriched air)
Day 2: Half day class and Dives 2 (90-165 feet, air/enriched air) and 3 (100-165 feet, normoxic trimix)
Day 3: Dive 4 (130-185 feet, normoxic trimix)
Day 4: Dive 5 (150-220 feet, TMx 16 to 21% oxygen)
Day 5: Dive 6 (150-220 feet, TMx 16 to 21% oxygen, END 130 feet or less)
Day 6: Dive 7 (170-245 feet, TMx 16 to 21% oxygen, END 130 feet or less)
Day 7: Dive 8 (180-245 feet, TMx 16 to 21% oxygen, END 130 feet or less)

Prerequisties

DSAT Apprentice Tec Diver - must have read entire Tec Deep manual and complete the Knowledge and Reviews prior to beginning
PADI Rescue Diver

Equipment Reuirements

• Double cylinders (minimum 12 l/70 cf each, with larger preferred) with isolator manifold
• Primary and secondary regulators, one with two metre/seven foot hose (approx.) for gas sharing, and one with SPG
• Stage/decompression cylinders with regulator, SPG, mounting hardware and proper labeling/markings. Two per diver will be required
• Backup decompression cylinders as appropriate and required for the environment
• BCD and harness – redundant buoyancy control is required (double bladder BCD or dry suit if suitable for weight of equipment worn)
• Depth gauge/computer and backup depth gauge/computer
• Timing device and backup timing device
• Trimix decompression information (tables/trimix computer) and backup decompression information
• Exposure suit appropriate for environment and dive duration. (If students will use dry suits, they should be trained/experienced with their use in recreational and technical diving prior to using them for trimix training or diving.)
• Argon dry suit inflation or other inflation system as needed (students should not inflate dry suit with trimix)
• Weight system (if needed)
• Jon line (if needed for current diving environ-ments)
• Inflatable signal tube
• Reel
• Lift bag (bright yellow or per local community practice preferred)
• Knife/cutting device and backup
• Slate
• Backup mask (optional)
• Compass
• Lights (optional)
• Drift kit (if drift decompressing)
Certification
The DSAT Tec Trimix Diver course is intended to extend the depth range available to technical divers trained and qualified to use air, enriched air and oxygen for technical decompression dives beyond 50 metres/165 feet in open water. The DSAT Tec Trimix Diver course is intended for technical divers certified as DSAT Tec Deep Divers (or qualifying certification from another training organization). The course extends their depth range capabilities by training them in the use of trimix (helium, oxygen and nitrogen).