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Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a course? Discover Tec is a short confined water experience that allows you to give technical diving a try. You get to wear all the extra tec diving gear and take it for a test dive. Your PADI Tec Instructor may introduce a few basic skills, such as primary to secondary regulator switch and gas shutdown procedures.
If you’re interested in tec diving and are a PADI Open Water Diver, at least 18 years old, and have a minimum of 10 logged dives, you qualify for Discover Tec.
Discover Tec/Discover Sidemount may credit toward the Tec 40 course if you successfully complete the Tec 40 Training Dive One required skills. Ask your instructor about this option if you’re interested.
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Discover Tec/Discover Sidemount
Description
Price (MYR)
1/2 day try-out program
400.00
What will you learn?
The PADI Tec 40 course takes some 4 days to complete. This is where you transition from recreational scuba diving to technical diving. It’s a great place to start because it’s the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Diver course and bridges the gap between no stop diving and full technical deep decompression diving. You gain experience and begin building the knowledge and skills you need to continue your tec diver training. You will qualify to make limited decompression dives to 40 metres/130 feet.
What equipment will you use?
During the course you will use the following technical diving equipment:
PADI Tec 40
Course Prerequisites
Students must meet the following prerequisites before starting the course:
Description
Price (MYR)
4 day program incl. eLearning (excl. tec gear rental)
2,400.00
Basic dive equipment (wetsuit, fin, mask)
Wing type BCD with dual bladder
2 dive computers / depth gauges and bottom timers (mixed gas computer or computer that can be set into gauge mode preferred)
Dive slates (wrist slates highly recommended)
Twin tanks with isolator manifold
Two regulator first and second stages for twin tanks, one with long hose (min. length 1.5m)
Up to two decompression / stage tanks
Two oxygen clean regulators for decompression / stage tanks
Primary reel (minimum line length 70m)
Liftbag (minimum lifting capacity 50lbs)
2 Knife / cutting devices
Jon line (for drift decompression, if applicable)
Course Fees
The Tec 40 course consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four training dives. You’ll learn about:
Technical diving’s risks and responsibilities
Technical diving equipment, proper rigging and set up
Gas planning, oxygen limits and decompression planning
Team diving techniques and emergency procedures, such as dealing with free flows, manifold leaks and out of gas situations
The Tec 40 Diver is qualified to use decompression software and decompression dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression.
You will use recreational scuba equipment, with some minor additions to enhance your ability to deal with tec diving conditions.
As learning materials you will use the PADI Tec Deep Diver Crew Pak, which introduces you to:
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent
PADI Enriched Air Diver Nitrox Diver or equivalent
At least 10 logged dives using enriched air deeper than 18 metres/60 feetPADI Deep Diver or equivalent with at least 10 logged dives to 30 metres/100 feet
At least 18 years old
Minimum of 30 logged dives
Have a PADI Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
What will you learn?
The Tec 45 Diver course takes over where the Tec 40 course leaves off and takes your training as a technical diver further and deeper. It’s the second sub course in the full Tec Diver program.
What equipment will you use?
During the course you will use the following technical diving equipment:
PADI Tec 45
Course Prerequisites
Students must meet the following prerequisites before starting the course:
Certified as a PADI Tec40 Diver or equivalent.
Minimum of 50 logged dives of which at least 12 dives were made with Enriched Air Nitrox deeper than 18 meters and 10 dives that were deeper than 30 meters (with or without Nitrox).
Be fit for diving and have a PADI Medical Statement signed by a physician.
Basic dive equipment (wetsuit, fin, mask)
Wing type BCD with dual bladder
2 dive computers / depth gauges and bottom timers (mixed gas computer or computer that can be set into gauge mode preferred)
Dive slates (wrist slates highly recommended)
Twin tanks with isolator manifold
Two regulator first and second stages for twin tanks, one with long hose (min. length 1.5m)
Up to two decompression / stage tanks
Two oxygen clean regulators for decompression / stage tanks
Primary reel (minimum line length 70m)
Liftbag (minimum lifting capacity 50lbs)
2 Knife / cutting devices
Jon line (for drift decompression, if applicable)
Description
Price (MYR)
4 day program incl. eLearning (excl. tec gear rental)
2,400.00
In this 4 day course you’ll learn the skills and equipment and planning needed to dive to a maximum of 45 meters (145 feet). You’ll receive the knowledge to plan and execute single and repetitive decompression dives using a single Nitrox stage cylinder or oxygen to accelerate or add conservatism to your decompression stops. It puts you in a complete tec diving rig, which can be either backmount or sidemount. You’ll also make accelerated decompression dives using EANx or pure oxygen. This is a course where you’ll rise to the challenge and make the commitment to become a technical diver.
There is no time limit for the decompression and you will be thoroughly prepared to respond to any foreseeable technical diving emergency. We will teach you to master all the basic skills and procedures you will need as you move into deeper technical diving.
As learning materials you will use the PADI Tec Deep Diver eLearning.
Course Fees
What will you learn?
The third and final 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.
What equipment will you use?
The Tec 50 course includes two knowledge development sections, three practical application sessions and four open water dives. A primary focus of this course is mission planning and execution. You also learn more about how to think like a technical diver and you will understand the hazards and risks involved in technical diving, as well as how to prepare for and handle reasonable foreseeable technical diving emergencies.
You also learn how to plan, conduct and manage Decompression dives as well as accelerated decompression dives using air enriched air to a depth of 50 metres /165 feet
Mastery of the technical diver rig brings all dive sites in the 50 meter range within your capabilities. The use of decompression techniques within this depth range allows for multi-hour bottom time dives to be planned allowing for serious exploration of shipwrecks or unvisited deep coral reefs without the ‘deco’ indicator of your computer beeping at you to ascend just as the exploration becomes interesting!
The courses are physically and mentally challenging, requiring a full commitment of time and energy during course days. A technical diving rig can weigh up to 80 Kg. It requires a good physical fitness and mental attitude to deal with its particular requirements. The course is serious fun!
Tec 50
Course Prerequisites
Students must meet the following prerequisites before starting the course:
Basic dive equipment (wetsuit, fin, mask)
Wing type BCD with dual bladder
2 dive computers / depth gauges and bottom timers (mixed gas computer or computer that can be set into gauge mode preferred)
Dive slates (wrist slates highly recommended)
Twin tanks with isolator manifold
Two regulator first and second stages for twin tanks, one with long hose (min. length 1.5m)
Up to two decompression / stage tanks
Two oxygen clean regulators for decompression / stage tanks
Primary reel (minimum line length 70m)
Liftbag (minimum lifting capacity 50lbs)
2 Knife / cutting devices
Jon line (for drift decompression, if applicable)
Description
Price (MYR)
4 day program incl. eLearning (excl. tec gear rental)
2,400.00
During the course you will use the following technical diving equipment:
Course Fees
Certified as a PADI Tec 45 Diver or equivalent
Minimum of 100 logged dives of which at least 20 dives must be Enriched Air Nitrox dives deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 15 dives must be deeper than 30 metres/100 feet
Be fit for diving and have a PADI Medical Statement signed by a physician
What will you learn?
For the extreme diver ready to further explore the world of technical deep diving, the gas of choice is trimix – a blend of oxygen, helium and nitrogen.
The PADI Tec Trimix Diver course takes you to the outer edges of technical deep diving, opening the door to pristine dive sites few divers – if any – ever see.
You’ll use full technical equipment and you may use a technical sidemount configuration, plus two stage/decompression cylinders.
What equipment will you use?
The Tec Trimix 65 course introduces you to using trimix down to a maximum depth of 65 metres/210 feet. There are advantages to using three gases, but you need to know how to do it right. Earning the Tec Trimix 65 certification makes deeper exploration a reality.
With a combination of independent study and training skill sessions, you’ll find the Tec Trimix Diver course intense, pushing you to meet the demands of deep trimix diving. It’s not for every diver, nor can every diver rise to the challenge. Can you?
Tec Trimix 65 course topics include:
Trimix diving depth ranges
Exposure planning
Selecting a mix
Argon inflation systems
Handling three or four decompression cylinders
Decompression models
Emergency procedures
Decompression software and multi-gas computers
Tec Trimix 65 Diver
Course Prerequisites
You’re qualified to enroll in the Tec Trimix 65 course, if you:
Are a PADI Tec 50 diver (or equivalent)
Have a minimum of 100 logged dives
Are at least 18 years old
Have a PADI Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
Description
Price (MYR)
4 days incl. manual, 5 dives, gases and boat
(excl. tec gear rental)
3,600.00
Course Fees
What will you learn?
Sidemount is an increasingly popular way to configure multiple cylinders for technical diving. You can enter the world of tec diving with the Tec Sidemount Diver course and apply what you learn to other TecRec courses such as the Tec 40, Tec 45 or Tec 50 courses.
If you’re a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, at least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives, you qualify to enroll in a Tec Sidemount Diver course. It’s recommended that you also have a PADI Enriched Air Diver Nitrox certification.
Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply – ask our Tec Sidemount Instructor.
What will you learn?
You’ll learn about the advantages of diving with a sidemount configuration and how to set up a tec sidemount harness. You’ll get hands-on training during one confined water session and four open water dives where you’ll start with two tanks and add at least two more, maybe even getting to six sidemounted cylinders.
Tec Sidemount Diver
Course Fees
Description
Price (MYR)
Recreational Sidemount
Upgrade to tec Sidemount
Tec Sidemount Course
1,200.00
2,000.00
What will you learn?
The Tec Gas Blender course teaches you to blend enriched air nitrox and helium-blend gases using one or more blending methods. Being the blender is a key job at a busy PADI Dive Center or Resort and your work allows other divers to do what they love to do – scuba dive.
The Tec Gas Blender course includes three practical application sessions, but no dives. During independent study and instructor-led review, you learn:
About the advantages and disadvantages of different blending methodologies
To blend enriched air and trimix blends to within one percent of the target mix
About the potential hazards related to handling oxygen, and how to manage those risks
To demonstrate the steps for oxygen cleaning equipment, along with the requirements for oxygen service
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.
What are the four main types of oxygen? What is oxygen clean? What are the five methods for blending Enriched Air? These questions and more are covered in the Gas Blender manual. As a gas blender you must be familiar with the physical properties of oxygen, its various forms and purities, hazards and special handling requirements. The Gas Blender Manual and CD, in conjunction with your instructor, will familiarize you with the procedures and techniques needed for gas blending.
Gas Blender / Tec Trimix Gas Blender
Course Prerequisites
To become a Gasblender, you must be:
A PADI Enriched Air Diver (or qualifying nitrox certification from another organization).
At least 18 years old
Information
Price (MYR)
Tec Trimix Gas Blender
(2 day program incl. manual)
850.00
Gas Blender
(2 day program incl. manual)
600.00
Course Fees
Technical Wreck Diving Trips
Many become technical divers to dive some of the most amazing wrecks around the world. For Tioman it's specifically the WWII battlecruiser HMS Repulse (57m depth) and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales (69m depth).
We arrange day trips by speedboat to those wrecks a few times per year upon request.
Contact us to learn more about the option to dive one of these wrecks.
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