Take your diving to new levels with the skills, knowledge and training that you’ll experience with IVS’s Technical Diving programs. Going deeper, staying longer, expanding your dive missions, planned decompression diving, using multiple accelerated deco gasses including Nitrox Blends to 100%, incorporating Helium & Trimix blends in your dive planning, choosing gear configurations including Back-mounted Doubles, Sidemount, Rebreathers, Cave Exploration setups – learn how to go where few dare, safely, with confidence, and find the real explorer in you!

Tec 200 - Decompression Diver

Technical

Taking the properly prepared technical novice to the first level of true technical diving, this program trains the diver to a maximum training depth of one hundred fifty feet using Oxygen Enriched Air blends for bottom mixes and up to 100% O2 mix as a single accelerated decompression gas. Utilizing a multi-agency approach, we have created a program that includes what we consider the best methodology in the development of a properly trained technical diver, the first and highest priority being the continuation of the development of the "Technical Mindset" that was started in the Tec Fundamentals and Tec 100 programs. A thorough academic session and review of theory provides the diver with excellent comprehension of Decompression Illness and Oxygen Toxicity concepts and as a result, enables them to confidently design dive plans that further reduce risks of DCI and O2 Toxicity. The in-water skills and exercises introduce the student diver to innovative techniques in survival, self-sufficiency, and proper decompression management. A minimum of four dives and a minimum of 150 minutes of run time ensures the diver of being properly accustomed to the technical side of diving.

Program #

TEC.200

Course Fee

$750.00

Certification Agency
  • IVS
  • PADI
  • TDI
  • IANTD
Certification

PADI Tec 45 and TDI Deco Procedures

Prerequisites

Intro to Tec / IVS Tec 100 certified or equivalent

Minimum Age

18

Required Student Materials/Equipment

PADI Tec 45 Student Manual, or TDI Decompression Procedures, depending on which certification path you with to pursue
Full Technical Scuba Kit per IVS Standards /wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IVS-Equipment-List-Technical.pdf
Back-mounted doubles or Twin Sidemount configuration
One sling bottle for Deco gas
Tank set-ups, Deco Cylinders and other required equipment can be student-owned or rented from IVS

Required Administrative Items
  • Divers Medical Questionnaire
  • IVS Model Release
  • PADI Continuing Education Administrative Document
  • PADI Liability Release and Assumption of Risk for Discover Tec Diving
  • PADI Tec Diver Statement of Understanding and Learning Agreement
Classroom Sessions

1

Pool/Confined Sessions

1

Open Water Sessions

4

Upcoming Technical Classes

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