Bali Technical Diving

Tec Diving Bali - Diver and Pro level Tech Diver Courses

Blue Season Bali is now offering Tec Diving Courses for all those divers who need to be challenged like never before.

Tec diving takes experienced and qualified divers far deeper than normal recreational diving and significantly more equipment and training requirements to manage the additional hazard for this type of diving. Tec diving isn’t for everyone, but for those who hear its challenge call, the PADI TecRec courses are available at Blue Season Bali.

What is Tec Diving?

Tec diving is defined as diving other than conventional commercial or research diving that takes divers beyond recreational scuba diving limits. It is further defined as and includes one or more of the following:

• Diving beyond 40 meters
• Required stage decompression
• Diving in an overhead environment beyond 40 linear metes/130 linear feet of the surface
• Accelerated decompression and or the use of variable gas mixtures during the dive.

Tec Diving Prerequisites

PADI Tec Diving prerequisites vary depending on the tek course you are taking, but the following applies to anyone interested in technical diving: You should be at least:

• 18 years of age
• A mature, responsible person who will follow procedures strictly and faithfully
• Medically fit for tec diving
• Prepared to accept extra risks that tec diving presents
• An experienced diver with at least 100 logged dives,
• Certified as a PADI Rescue Diver. PADI Enriched Air Diver and certified as a PADI Deep Diver.

PADI Tec 40 Diver Course

 The PADI Tex 40 Diver course is the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver course and consists of the first four dives. During the course you will learn how to use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 meters. You also learn how to use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Since it's part of the course, your PADI Tec 40 course training credits toward the PADI Tec 45 and Tec 50 courses.

This PADI Technical Diving course costs USD 500.00 per person.

PADI Tec 45 Diver Course

The PADI Tec 45 course picks up where Tec 40 leaves off and  takes your training as a tec diver further and deeper. It is the second sub course in the full PADI Tec Diver course. During this course you will learn about the skills and equipment and planning need to dive to a maximum of 45 meters/145 feet, how to plan and execute single and repetitive decompression dives using a single stage cylinder of EANx or oxygen to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression stops. You also prepare for and respond to foreseeable technical diving emergencies and master the basic skills and procedures you’ll need as you move into deeper technical diving.

This PADI Technical Diving course costs USD 500.00 per person.

PADI Tec 50 Deep Diver Course

The PADI Tec 50 course completes your training as an entry-level tec diver, taking you past the limits of recreational diving. During this course you will learn how to make actual decompression dives as deep as 50 meters, how to use enriched air nitrox and/or oxygen for decompression, how to use desk top decompression software to create custom dive tables and plan your dives.

With this technical diving rating you quality to make independent technical decompression dives.

This PADI Technical Diving course costs USD 500.00 per person.

Combine the PADI Tec 40, 45 and 50 courses and get the best value package at USD 1200.00 per person.

DSAT Gas Blender Course

The Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender, allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers. You'll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards, handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally, you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.

This PADI Technical Diving course costs USD 199.00 per person.