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TDI Technical Diving Courses

TDI Intro To Tech Diving

Who this course is for:

  • Certified open water scuba diver who wants to expand diver knowledge
  • Certified open water scuba diver who is considering technical training
  • Certified technical diver who is seeking a refresher course

Course prerequisites:

  • Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
  • Minimum certification: SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
  • Proof of 25 logged open water dives

What you can expect to learn:

  • In-depth dive planning, advanced buoyancy control, gas management,  situational awareness, proper trim, gear configuration and selection

What’s in it for you:

  • Exposure to in-depth dive planning, introduction to more advanced technical diving and equipment
  • Opportunity to become a more proficient diver and expand on diver skills and knowledge

How to take this course!

  • Available as an Online Course: Call Crystal Blue Diving to get started
  • Course Cost: $500.00 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

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TDI Intro To Tech Diving

TDI Nitrox

TDI Nitrox

TDI Nitrox Diver Course is an entry-level course for divers wishing to  continue their diver education and utilize enriched air nitrox as a  breathing gas to extend no-decompression limits at depth.


Who this course is for:

  • The open water diver who is interested in learning more about nitrox mixtures
  • The open water diver who is interested in extending their bottom time
  • The certified diver who has interest in moving forward with technical diving education

Course prerequisites:

  • Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
  • Minimum certification of open water diver or current enrollment in an open water diver course

What you can expect to learn:

  • The benefits, hazards, and proper procedures for using nitrox mixes from 22 through 40 percent oxygen content
  • Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox mixtures, and gas blending procedures

What’s in it for you?

  • Ability to dive utilizing EAN-22 to EAN-40 without direct supervision
  • Ability to enroll in TDI Advanced Nitrox, TDI Decompression Procedures, TDI Semi-closed Rebreather courses

How to take this course?

  • Available as an Online Course: Call Crystal Blue Diving to get started.
  • Course Cost: $275.00 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

TDI Sidemount

TDI Sidemount


Who this TDI course is for:

  • The SDI or TDI diver looking to expand their in-water skills and techniques
  • The certified diver who has interest in moving forward with  technical diving education and expanding their equipment configuration  options

Course prerequisites

(these requirements must be met prior to commencement of training):

  • Minimum age 18
  • Minimum certification of SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, or equivalent

What you can expect to learn:

The TDI Sidemount Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more!

  • Gas matching procedures to include dissimilar volumes
  • Gas management utilizing independent cylinders
  • Psychological considerations of technical diving
  • Equipment considerations including: 
    • Cylinder options
    • Regulator options
    • Buoyancy compensator/harness options
    • Proper weighting
    • Equipment configurations
  • Communication (light and hand signals)
  • Problem solving in a sidemount configuration
  • Diving in tight or confined spaces
  • Conservation
  • Water entries/exits
  • S-drills specific to sidemount diving

Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:

  • Demonstrate various propulsion techniques such as the frog kick,  modified frog kick, modified flutter kick, backwards kick, helicopter  turns, and hand pulling if appropriate for the environment.
  • Demonstrate adequate buoyancy control; ability to hover at a fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet
  • Demonstrate adequate trim; ability to maintain proper position during the descent, bottom, and ascent portion of the dive
  • Demonstrate the ability to perform the following exercises while maintaining trim and buoyancy in the water column: 
    • Unclipping and attaching sidemount cylinders
    • Perform gas switches with and without a mask
  • Demonstrate the ability to safely manage gas in independent cylinders
  • Demonstrate conservation, awareness, and back referencing techniques
  • Deploy a lift bag
  • Carry additional cylinders is optional in this course

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in  sidemount diving activities without direct supervision so long as the  following limits are adhered to:

  • The diving activities approximate those of training
  • The areas of activities approximate those of training
  • Planned dives do not exceed diver’s current certification level

Required Equipment:

- Sidemount BCD

- (2) Main cylinders rigged for sidemount

- (2) deco/stage cylinders rigged for sidemount

- (2) Regulators, DIN, properly setup for main cylinders

- (2) deco/stage regs setup for stage/deco

- Necessary weights

- Mask, Fins, Exposure Gear

- SMB and Finger Spool

- Slate

- Light 

- (2) Computer

How to take this course:

  • Available as an Online Course: Call Crystal Blue Diving to get started
  • Course Cost: $500.00 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800

TDI Advanced Nitrox

TDI Advanced Nitrox

Are you looking to expand your dive time? Maybe you’re a scientific  diver or photographer looking to stay in the water a little longer?The  TDI Advanced Nitrox Course qualifies divers to use enriched air nitrox  from EAN 21 through EAN 100 percent within your current certification  level to a maximum depth of 40 metres/130 feet during dives that do not  require staged decompression. Often taught in conjunction with the TDI  Decompression Procedures course, this can be considered the foundation  of your technical diving career. TDI Advanced Nitrox is also a must for  SCR or CCR divers.


Who this course is for:

  • The certified nitrox diver looking to expand their understanding of nitrox mixtures containing more than 40% oxygen
  • The certified nitrox diver looking to expand their in-water skills
  • The certified diver who has interest in moving forward with technical diving education

Course prerequisites

(these requirements must be met prior to the start of the course):

  • Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
  • Minimum certification of TDI Nitrox Diver or equivalent
  • Proof of 25 logged open water dives

What you can expect to learn:

Advanced Nitrox picks up where TDI Nitrox leaves off and offers a more in-depth look at diving with nitrox including:

  • Physics and physiology relating to diving with gas mixes containing more than 40% oxygen
  • Gas planning, dive tables, dive computers, oxygen limitations, nitrogen limitations
  • Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox  mixtures, gas blending procedures, and oxygen service ratings for using  gases with more than 40% oxygen

Some of the skills you will complete in this course include:

  • Demonstrate buoyancy control; ability to hover at fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet
  • Show good awareness of buddy and other team members through communication, proximity, and team oriented dive practices
  • Demonstrate the ability to manage free flow from primary regulator  in controlled fashion, shut down cycle, and switch to back up regulator
  • Conduct appropriate safety stop while maintaining neutral buoyancy
  • Demonstrate the ability to share air with buddy as both recipient  and donor in a controlled manner while maintaining position in the water  column
  • Demonstrate correct body position; appropriate trim, such as horizontal/streamlined when moving forward
  • Demonstrate proper stress analysis with self and dive buddy

What’s in it for you?

  • Ability to dive using EAN 21 through 100 percent oxygen provided: 
    • The diving activities approximate those of training
    • The areas of activities approximate those of training
    • Environmental conditions approximate those of training
  • Ability to enroll in TDI Decompression Procedures, TDI Semi-closed Rebreather courses, TDI Closed Circuit rebreather courses

How to take this course!

  • Available as an Online Course: Call Crystal Blue Diving
  • Course Cost: $500.00 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

TDI Decompression Procedures Diver

TDI Decompression Procedures Diver

Are you finding your no- decompression limits (NDLs) a limiting  factor to dives? Do you have to ascend sooner than you would like? As  sport divers, planned decompression is not something that we do or have  been taught.The TDI Decompression Procedures Course prepares you for  planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of  45 metres/150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal  sport diving limits. The TDI Decompression Procedures Course combined  with the TDI Advanced Nitrox course form the foundation of all other  technical courses. After these two courses and some additional  experience, the stage has been set for you to move onto additional  technical levels.

Who this course is for:

  • The certified Advanced Diver looking to expand their knowledge of decompression theory and diving techniques
  • The certified Advanced Diver who is interested in extending their bottom time
  • The certified Advanced Diver who has interest in moving forward with technical diving education

Course prerequisites:

  • Minimum age 18
  • Minimum certification of SDI Advanced Adventure Diver, Advanced Diver, or equivalent
  • Proof of 25 logged open water dives

What you can expect to learn:

  • Decompression dive planning including: 
    • Decompression gas choices
    • Tables vs. personal dive computers
    • Emergency and contingency planning (equipment failure, omitted decompression, etc.)
  • Decompression diving procedures 
    • Equipment selection
    • Pre-dive checks and drills
    • Stress analysis and mitigation
    • Following a decompression schedule
    • Gas switching
    • Team awareness and communication
    • SMB/lift bag deployment
  • Proper trim, buoyancy and finning techniques
  • Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss, omitted decompression, navigational errors, etc.)
  • Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox mixtures, and gas blending procedures

What’s in it for you?

  • Ability to conduct decompression diving activities without direct supervision provided: 
    • The diving activities approximate those of training
    • The areas of activities approximate those of training
    • Environmental conditions approximate those of training
  • Ability to enroll in TDI Advanced Nitrox, TDI Extended Range, TDI Advanced Wreck, TDI Trimix courses

How to take this course!

  • Available as an Online Course: Contact Crystal Blue Diving
  • Course Cost: $500 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

TDI Helitrox Diver

TDI Helitrox Diver

The TDI Helitrox Diver Course examines the theory, methods, and  procedures for planning staged decompression dives utilizing helium in  the breathing mixture to reduce the effects of inert gas narcosis.

The TDI Helitrox Diver Course trains divers how to plan and conduct  staged decompression dives to a maximum depth of 45 metres/150 feet. The  most common equipment requirements, gear set-up, and decompression  techniques are also presented during this course. Students are permitted  to utilize enriched air nitrox and helium mixes with no greater than 35% helium content, and up to 100% oxygen for decompression diving.

This program is designed as a stand-alone course, or it may be taught  in conjunction with TDI Advanced Nitrox at the discretion of the  instructor.


Who this course is for:

  • The certified Advanced Diver or Intro to Tech Diver looking to  expand their knowledge of decompression theory and diving techniques  using helitrox
  • The certified Advanced Diver or Intro to Tech Diver who is interested in extending their bottom time
  • The certified Advanced Diver or Intro to Tech Diver who has interest in moving forward with technical diving education

Course prerequisites:

  • Minimum age 18
  • Minimum certification of SDI Advanced Diver (with Deep specialty) or TDI Intro to Tech Diver, or equivalent
  • Certified as TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver (unless being taught concurrently)
  • Proof of 50 logged dives

What you can expect to learn:

  • Decompression dive planning including: 
    • Gas requirements 
      • Oxygen limitations
      • Nitrogen limitations
      • Helium limitations
    • Decompression gas choices
    • Tables vs. personal dive computers
    • Emergency and contingency planning (equipment failure, omitted decompression, etc.)
  • Helium as a breathing gas 
    • Effects on narcosis
    • Effects on respiration
    • Effects as an insulator
    • Counter diffusion
    • HPNS
  • Decompression diving procedures 
    • Equipment selection
    • Pre-dive checks and drills
    • Stress analysis and mitigation
    • Following a decompression schedule
    • Gas switching
    • Team awareness and communication
    • SMB/lift bag deployment
  • Proper trim, buoyancy and propulsion techniques
  • Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss, omitted decompression, navigational errors, etc.)
  • Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing nitrox mixtures, and gas blending procedures

What’s in it for you?

  • Ability to conduct decompression diving activities without direct supervision utilizing helium and/or nitrox mixtures provided: 
    • The diving activities approximate those of training
    • The areas of activities approximate those of training
    • Environmental conditions approximate those of training
    • Breathing mixtures do not contain more than 35% helium or less than 21% oxygen
  • Ability to enroll in TDI Extended Range, TDI Advanced Wreck, TDI Trimix courses

How to take this Course!

  • Course Cost: $500.00. Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

TDI Extended Range Diver

TDI Extended Range Diver

Certain areas of the world provide spectacular dives at depths deeper  than 39 metres/130 feet but you may not have access (or very limited  access) to helium. The TDI Extended Range course teaches you the proper  techniques for utilizing compressed air as a breathing gas, and with a  maximum depth of 55 metres/180 feet, so you don’t have to miss those  dives! The TDI Extended Range Diver Course provides the training and  experience necessary including proper techniques, equipment  requirements, and hazards of deep air diving, to competently utilize air  for dives up to 55 metres/180 feet that require staged decompression,  using nitrox mixtures or oxygen during decompression.


Who this course is for:

  • The certified TDI Advanced Nitrox/Decompression Procedures diver  looking for the next step in technical dive training. Whether you’re  looking to expand upon your skills, experience, or just go a little  deeper to see an area of interest, this course is for you!

Course prerequisites:

(these requirements must be met prior to commencement of training):

  • Minimum age 18
  • Certified as a TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver and TDI Decompression Procedures Diver, or equivalent
  • Proof of a minimum of 100 logged dives, of which 25 must be deeper than 30 metres/100 feet

What you can expect to learn?

The TDI Extended Range Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:

  • History of deep air diving
  • Physics 
    • Pressure review
    • Formulas for solving dive planning problems, maximum operating depth (MOD), best mix, and more
  • Physiology 
    • Hypoxia
    • Oxygen toxicity
    • Nitrogen narcosis
    • Nitrogen absorption and elimination
    • Carbon dioxide toxicity
    • Carbon monoxide
    • Hyperthermia
    • Hypothermia
  • Decompression Options 
    • Air
    • Nitrox
    • Oxygen
  • Equipment considerations
  • Dive tables
  • Dive planning 
    • Operation planning
    • Team planning
    • Emergency planning
  • Diving procedures
  • Descent considerations
  • Ascent considerations
  • Technical dive support
  • Navigation

Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:

  • Use START before every dive
  • Stress analysis and mitigation
  • Gas matching procedures
  • Demonstrate buoyancy control; ability to hover at fixed position in water column without moving hands or feet
  • Show good awareness of buddy and other team members through communications, proximity and team oriented dive practices
  • Demonstrate competence managing 2 stage cylinders, either 2 deco gas  or 1 deco and extra bottom gas, including drop and recovery while  maintaining position in the water column
  • Demonstrate ability to confirm gas switches at depth with buddy/team members
  • Demonstrate lift bag deployment from depth and use of bag as back-up buoyancy device
  • Demonstrate air-sharing ascent from depth while one member of buddy team is without mask, both as a donor and recipient
  • Create contingency decompression schedule after simulated loss of decompression gas
  • Remove and replace mask, deploy back up mask
  • Demonstrate tired diver tow at depth and on surface; 30 metres/100 feet lateral
  • Complete a horizontal breath-hold swim at depth for 15 metres/50 feet with mask off or blacked out
  • Properly execute the planned dive within all pre-determined limits
  • Demonstrate the proper procedures for switching and isolating a  malfunctioning regulator, this skill is to be performed at a depth no  deeper than 40 metres/130 feet
  • Demonstrate the proper navigational techniques for the specific dive
  • During 2 dives, demonstrate an ascent with ascent reel and lift bag and perform staged decompression
  • During one of the dives, tow a simulated unconscious diver, while at  depth, 9 metres/30 feet to ascent line and simulate an emergency rescue  ascent technique

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in  diving activities without direct supervision so long as the following  limits are adhered to

  • The diving activities approximate those of training
  • The areas of activities approximate those of training
  • Environmental conditions approximate those of training
  • Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are qualified  to enroll in the TDI Advanced Wreck ,TDI Trimix, and TDI Advanced Trimix  courses

How to take this course:

  • Course Cost: $600.00 Plus student materials, lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.


TDI Trimix Diver

TDI Trimix Diver

Are you looking to expand your depth range? Do you want to reduce  narcosis during deep dives? The TDI Trimix Diver Course could be your  next step! As your motivation to explore progresses, you will find that  you may want to go deeper to dive that wreck that is part of history or  that cave system that you have read so much about. One of the major  limiting factors of going deeper is narcosis; TDI’s Trimix Diver course  shows how to minimize the effects of narcosis by adding helium to offset  the nitrogen in your breathing gas. While taking the Trimix Diver  course your TDI Instructor will teach you how to plan and execute dives  utilizing as little as 18 percent oxygen and diving to maximum depth of  60 metres/200 feet with a blend of helium appropriate for the planned  depth.


Who this course is for:

  • The certified Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures diver looking to: 
    • Extend their depth range
    • Reduce narcosis for all deep dives
    • Advance their technical diving education

Course prerequisites:

  • Minimum age 18
  • Minimum certification of TDI Advanced Nitrox AND Decompression Procedures Diver, or equivalent
  • Proof of 100 logged dives

What you can expect to learn:

  • Advanced decompression dive planning including: 
    • Gas planning based on equivalent narcotic depths, nitrogen and  helium absorption and elimination, CNS and OUT limits, Isobaric Counter  diffusion, volume requirements, etc.
    • Decompression gas choices
    • Tables vs. personal dive computers
    • Emergency and contingency planning (equipment failure, omitted decompression, etc)
  • Decompression diving procedures 
    • Equipment selection
    • Pre-dive checks and drills
    • Stress analysis and mitigation
    • Following a decompression schedule
    • Gas switching
    • Team awareness and communication
    • SMB/lift bag deployment
  • Proper trim, buoyancy and finning techniques
  • Management of multiple decompression/stage cylinders
  • Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss,  omitted decompression, navigational errors, injured/unconscious diver,  etc)
  • Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing trimix nitrox and mixes, and gas blending procedures

What’s in it for you?

  • Ability to conduct technical diving activities using custom trimix mixtures without direct supervision provided: 
    • The diving activities approximate those of training
    • The areas of activities approximate those of training
    • Environmental conditions approximate those of training
  • Ability to enroll in TDI Advanced Wreck and TDI Advanced Trimix courses

How to Take This Course?

  • Course Cost: $123.55 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

TDI Advanced Trimix Diver

TDI Advanced Trimix Diver

The TDI Advanced Trimix Diver Course is the top level of training for  open circuit divers wishing to dive to depths as deep as 100 metres/330  feet utilizing hypoxic levels of oxygen (below 17 percent). This course  is perhaps one of the most informative and challenging of all of the TDI  open circuit courses. Upon completion, you will be among some of the  most elite divers, capable of doing and seeing more while diving than  any other divers out there.


Who this course is for:

  • The TDI Extended Range or Trimix Diver looking to: 
    • Extend their depth range
    • Advance their technical diving education

Course prerequisites:

  • Minimum age 18
  • Minimum certification of TDI Extended Range or Trimix Diver or equivalent
  • Show proof of 100 logged dives, 25 must be deeper than 30metres/100feet

What you can expect to learn:

  • Advanced decompression dive planning including: 
    • Gas planning based on equivalent narcotic depths, nitrogen and  helium absorption and elimination, CNS and OTU limits, isobaric counter  diffusion, volume requirements, etc.
    • Use of hypoxic gasses
    • HPNS and isobaric counter diffusion
    • Decompression gas choices
    • Tables vs. personal dive computers
    • Emergency and contingency planning (equipment failure, omitted decompression, etc.)
  • Decompression diving procedures 
    • Equipment selection
    • Pre-dive checks and drills
    • Stress analysis and mitigation
    • Following a decompression schedule
    • Gas switching
    • Team awareness and communication
    • SMB/lift bag deployment
  • Proper trim, buoyancy and fining techniques
  • Management of multiple (minimum of 3) decompression/stage cylinders
  • Emergency procedures (equipment failures, catastrophic gas loss,  omitted decompression, navigational errors, injured/unconscious diver,  etc)
  • Equipment considerations, cylinder labeling, analyzing trimix nitrox and mixes, and gas blending procedures

What’s in it for you?

  • Ability to conduct technical diving activities using custom trimix  mixtures without direct supervision, so long as the following limits are  adhered to: 
    • The diving activities approximate those of training
    • The areas of activities approximate those of training
    • Environmental conditions approximate those of training

How to Take This Course?

  • Course Cost: Call CBD for pricing, Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

PADI Tec 40

PADI Tec 40

Consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical  application sessions and four training dives. Designed for the diver  transitioning from recreational diving to technical diving.


Description 

The PADI Tec 40 course 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.

To enroll in the Tec 40 course, you must be:

  • A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
  • A PADI Enriched Air Diver with at least 10 dives using enriched air deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
  • A PADI Deep Diver or proof of at least 10 dives to 30 metres/100 feet
  • At least 18 years old and have a minimum of 30 logged dives

Academic 

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

Equipment 

You'll start with your basic scuba diving equipment and add technical equipment,  which essentially means you'll begin to double up on gear. You may dive  with backmounted or sidemounted cylinders. Your PADI Tec Instructor may  have you dive with EANx for additional conservatism.

How to Take This Course?

  • Course Cost: $500.00 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

PADI Tec 45

PADI Tec 45

Part 2 of the PADI Tec Deep Diver program. Extend your depth limit to 45  metres/145 ft. Learn to plan & execute repetitive decompression  dives using a single stage/decompression cylinder.


Description 

The PADI Tec 45 course is the second part of the full PADI  Tec Deep Diver program. You'll extend your depth limit to 45 metres/145  feet and learn to plan and execute repetitive decompression dives using a  single stage/decompression cylinder. 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.

To enroll in the Tec 45 course, you must:

  • Be a PADI Tech 40 diver
  • Be a PADI Rescue Diver
  • Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, with at least 12 dives on  enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 6 dives deeper  than 30 metres/100 feet
  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months

Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply  -  ask your Tec Deep Instructor.

Academic 

Your Tec 45 training consists  of three knowledge development sections, three practical application  sessions and four open water dives. Building on what you learned in the  Tec 40 course, you focus on the function and maintenance of tec diving  equipment and associated issues. You continue fine-tuning gas planning  and calculating accelerated decompression stops. Plus, you learn to  think like a technical diver.

Equipment 

You'll use full technical equipment, which includes wings and doubles plus an additional deco cylinder, or you may use a technical sidemount configuration. Your PADI Tec Deep Instructor will explain the gear required for your tec diving adventures.


Consists of three knowledge development sections, three practical  application sessions and four training dives. Designed for the diver  transitioning from recreational diving to technical diving.

How to Take This Course?

  • Course Cost: $500.00. Plus student materials 
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills. 
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

PADI Tec 50

PADI Tec 50

Part 3 of the full PADI Tec Deep Diver program. Develop competency &  have the skills to dive to a max of 50 metres/165 ft. Learn how to  extend & accelerate decompression stops using up to 2 gases.


Description 


The third 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.

To enroll in the Tec 50 course, you must:


  • Be a PADI Tec 45 diver
  • Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, with at least 20 dives on  enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 metres/60 feet and 15 dives deeper  than 30 metres/100 feet
  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Have a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months

Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply  -  ask your Tec Deep Instructor.    

Academic 

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 handling emergencies  and how to think like a technical diver 

Equipment 

You'll use full technical equipment and you may use a technical sidemount configuration,  plus two stage/decompression cylinders. Your Tec Deep Instructor may  also introduce you to using trimix on the last open water dive.

How to Take This Course?

  • Course Cost: $600 Plus student materials
  • Does not include: Lodging, lake entrance fees, gear, transportation and gas fills.  
  • Contact Crystal Blue Diving for details (224) 333-0800.

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