PADI TECREC INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

If you would like to work in remote area where you can blend your own gasses and dive that as an option to your tec diver students, the Tec Gas Blender is the way forward. Or if you would like to teach every student in Sidemount Configuration the Tec Sidemount instructor is your next course.

You can begin your path to becoming a PADI Tec Deep instructor with us here at Blue Label Diving at any time! You will see that outside the PADI TecRec Instructor Courses like Tec, Deep, and Tec Trimix, there are many more options for you to choose from.

Your training program will depend on your career goals in tech diving.

PADI TECREC INSTRUCTOR COURSES

If you’re serious about going beyond being a OWSI and become a PADI Tec instructor or Tec Deep Instructor Blue Label Diving is your obvious choice

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PADI Tec Instructor – 40 meters

Tec Instructor has a nice sound to it, especially if you’re a PADI Instructor interested in technical (tec) diving and ready to combine your interests. The Tec Instructor course is your entry into the tec diving world and your opportunity to join the PADI TecRec professional ranks. As a Tec Instructor, you’ll be qualified to conduct Discover Tec programs, teach the Tec 40 course and assist a Tec Deep Instructor with Tec 45 Diver courses (which is a great way to gain experience).

If you’re serious about becoming a technical instructor and joining the ranks of PADI technical instructors, the Tec Diver Instructor course is an obvious choice.

PADI TEC INSTRUCTOR PREREQUISITES

To enroll in a Tec Instructor course, you must:
Be a renewed PADI Instructor
Be a PADI Enriched Air Diver
Be a PADI Enriched Air Instructor, or have completed a PADI Enriched Air Instructor course.
Be a PADI Deep Specialty Instructor, or have completed a PADI Deep Specialty Instructor course.
Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, with at least 20 enriched air dives, 25 dives deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 15 dives deeper than 30 metres/100 feet.

Prior to sending in your Tec Instructor application, you must also:

Be a renewed PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Be a PADI Enriched Air Instructor
Be a PADI Deep Specialty Instructor
Be a Tec 45 Diver
Have a minimum of 20 stage decompression dives
Have successfully completed the Tec Instructor course exams
Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply – ask your Tec Instructor Trainer.

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Academic

If you aren’t a certified tec diver, then your Tec Instructor course will include the entire Tec 40 and 45 Diver course. Part One of the course focuses on the knowledge and skills required for technical deep diving. Part Two fine-tunes your ability to conduct knowledge development, practical application and open water teaching segments. You’ll also go over the philosophy, organization and marketing considerations for technical diver training.

PADI TEC DEEP INSTRUCTOR

This PADI Tec Instructor course incorporates instructional philosophies and course goals that directly address the demanding and challenging nature of technical diving and can be offered in either back mount or sidemount configurations, or both.

PADI Tec Deep Instructor Course Prerequisites

To enrol in this course, you must

Be a renewed PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (or a PADI Instructor with a higher rating)
Be a PADI Enriched Air Instructor, or have successfully completed a PADI Enriched Air Instructor Training course.
Be a PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor or have successfully completed a PADI Deep Diver Speciality Instructor Training course.
Have a minimum of 100 logged dives where at least 20 dives were made with enriched air nitrox, 25 dives were deeper than 18 metres/ 60 feet and at least 15 dives were deeper than 30 metres/ 100 feet.

Note that PADI Tec Deep Diver is not required. If you are not certified as a PADI Tec Deep Diver (or equivalent), then the Tec Deep Instructor training course must include the entire Tec Deep Diver course.

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PADI Tec Trimix Instructor – 90 meters

Tec Deep Instructors provide the most comprehensive technical instruction available. If you are both a Tec Deep Instructor and Tec Trimix Diver, then the Tec Trimix Instructor trainer course is for you. This course overviews how to teach the theory, planning, equipment and procedures for Helium-based dives, using air, Nitrox and oxygen.

As a Tec Trimix Instructor you can teach the full range of deep open-circuit tec diving courses, including Tec Trimix 65 and Tec Trimix Diver.

To enroll in a Tec Trimix Instructor course, you must:

Be a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Be a PADI Tec Deep Instructor, or have completed the PADI Tec Deep Instructor training course
Be a PADI Tec Trimix Diver
Have a minimum of 200 logged dives, with 20 tec decompression dives of which at least 10 dives were deeper than 40 metres/130 feet using trimix.

Prior to sending in your Tec Trimix Instructor application, you must also:

Be a PADI Tec Deep Instructor
Have assisted with at least one Tec Trimix Diver course
Have a minimum of 350 logged dives, with 50 decompression dives deeper than 40 metres/130 feet of which 30 dives must be deeper than 40 metres/130 feet using trimix and 10 dives deeper than 50 metres/165 feet using trimix with less than 21 percent oxygen.
Have successfully completed the Tec Trimix Instructor course exams

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Academic

You begin your training by reviewing the Tec Trimix course content and practical skills. Then, you complete multiple practice teaching scenarios in the classroom and in the water to ensure you know how to cover all the materials, organize skill practice and control open water dives.

PADI Tec Sidemount Instructor

Sidemount has caught on in both recreational and open-circuit tec diving as a popular alternative equipment configuration. As a Tec Sidemount Instructor, you can qualify divers to use sidemount so they can take any of the TecRec open-circuit tec courses using the configuration. You can also train divers to use sidemount within the limits of their current open-circuit TecRec certifications.

To begin the PADI Tec Sidemount Diver Course, you must meet the following requirements:

Be a renewed PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (or PADI Instructor with a higher rating)
Be a PADI Enriched Air Instructor (or have successfully completed the PADI EANx Instructor training course)
Be a PADI Deep Diver Instructor (or have successfully completed the PADI Deep Diver Instructor training course)
Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, of which at least 20 were made with enriched air, 25 were deeper than 18m and at least 15 were deeper than 30m
Be a PADI Tec 45 diver (or have a qualifying certification)

After successfully completing the PADI Tec Sidemount Instructor Course, you must meet the following criteria prior to submitting your application to PADI

Be a PADI Tec Instructor (or TecRec Instructor with a higher rating)
Be a PADI Tec Sidemount Diver (or have a qualifying certification). The PADI Tec Sidemount Diver course may be run with the instructor course
Have logged at least 20 tec sidemount dives including 10 with 3 or more cylinders (2 main and 1 or more stage/deco cylinders)
Have successfully completed the Tec Sidemount Instructor Course.

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PADI Tec Gas Blender Instructor

The Tec Gas Blender Instructor Course

You may be certified to blend gas, but do you want to teach others to do it? If so, the PADI Gas Blender Instructor course is just what you’re looking for.

The PADI Gas Blender Instructor course is one of the most informative and comprehensive programs available, incorporating instructional philosophies and course goals that directly address the precise nature of gas blending.

You might be certified to blend gas, but do you want to teach others to provide gas mixtures? If so, the DSAT Gas Blender Instructor course might be just what you’re looking for. The DSAT Gas Blender Instructor course is one of the most informative and comprehensive programs available, incorporating instructional philosophies and course goals that directly address the demanding nature of gas blending.