La Laguna Beach Club and Dive Centre offers a range of technical dive courses:

Discover Tec Experience

Duration: 2 hours

20122608094125Discover Tec embraces the Dive Today and Discover philosophies, allowing you to begin your training in the water. The Discover Tec experience makes it possible to try the equipment and perform some of the procedures to determine your level of interest. Discover Tec experiences can be credited towards PADI’s Apprentice Tec Diver or Tec Deep Diver course.

 

Prerequisites

  • Be certified as a PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent.
  • Be 18 years of age.
  • Have a minimum of 10 logged dives.

PADI Tec 40 Diver

Duration: 2-3 days

The Tec 40 diver is qualified to make decompression dives with not more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 meters while using a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50 percent oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Prerequisites you must:

  • be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least
    • 10 dives must be on enriched air.
    • 12 dives must be deeper than 18 metres/60 feet.
    • 6 dives must be deeper than 30 metres/100 feet.
    • have a medical statement form signed by your physician.

PADI Tec 45 Diver

Duration: 2-3 days

A Tec 45 diver is qualified to make single and repetitive dives to a maximum depth of 45 meters while using a single decompression gas of EANx, or oxygen, to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression.

Prerequisites you must:

  • be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Deep Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Tec 40 Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • Have a minimum of 50 logged dives, of which at least:
    • 12 dives were made with enriched air nitrox deeper than 18 meters/60 feet.
    • 6 (with or without EANx) dives were deeper than 30 meters/100 feet.
    • be at least 18 years old.
    • have a medical statement form signed by your physician.

PADI Tec 50 Diver

Duration: 2-3 days

20122608100517A Tec 50 is qualified to use air, EANx and oxygen for multiple stop decompression dives as deep as 50 metres using standard open circuit, multiple cylinder tec diving equipment while using two decompression gases (EANx and/or oxygen) to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression.

 

Prerequisites you must:

  • be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Rescue Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • be a PADI Tec 45 Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization).
  • have a minimum of 100 logged dives, of which
    • 20 dives must be enriched air dives.
    • 25 dives must be deeper than 18 metres/60 feet.
    • at least 20 dives must be deeper than 30 metres/100 feet.
    • be at least 18 years old.
    • have a medical statement form signed by your physician.

PADI Tec Trimix Diver

Duration: 5 days

The PADI Tec Trimix Diver course is intended for technical divers. The course extends your depth range capabilities by training you in the use of trimix (helium, oxygen and nitrogen} to depths of 75m/245ft. The provided skills you will learn are applicable to further training and experience in technical diving fields.

Prerequisites you must:

  • be certified as PADI Rescue Diver or equivalent with CPR and first aid training within the last 2 years.
  • be 18 years of age and certified as a PADI Tec Deep Diver or have a qualifying certification in deep decompression diving.
  • have a minimum of 150 logged dives.

PADI Gas Blender Nitrox/Trimix

Duration: 2 days

The PADI Gas Blender course develops your ability to competently blend enriched air nitrox and helium-blend gases using one or more blending methods available for the dive industry. It is not intended to replace equipment-specific training required by manufactures of gas blending equipment.

Prerequisites you must:

  • be at least 18 years old.
  • be certified as PADI Enriched Air Diver or hold a qualifying enriched air certification.

Contact us for information about what non PADI certifications qualify.