Basic technical courses - Tekstreme

DSAT / TecRec Courses
The TecRec program debuted in 2000. Although TecRec is not the first tec diving program (cave diver training has been around for decades), it repeatedly receives accolades for its merits.

• TecRec courses are integrated into an instructionally valid, seamless course flow that takes you from beginning tec diver to one qualified to the outer reaches of sport diving using different gas mixes.
• Each level introduces you to new gear, planning and procedures appropriate to extend your diving limits.
• The Tec Diver course is an integrated sequence of three sub courses: Tec 40, Tec 45 and Tec 50.  You can complete them continuously, or you can complete each level separately with a time span between them.  This gives you learning efficiency, instructional integrity and schedule flexibility.

Programs on offer:
Tec 40
Tec 45
Tec 50

Important Note
All course students are required to sign a PADI Medical form prior to starting the course. If the student has any of the medical conditions listed then signed clearance from a doctor, valid within 12 months, will be required.

Tec 40 Course – duration 3 days
Tec 40 is the first subdivision of the full PADI Tec Deep. You will learn to how to use decompression software and dive computers to plan and make decompression dives with no more than 10 minutes of total decompression and not deeper than 40 metres/130 feet. The will use a single cylinder of decompression gas with up to 50% oxygen (EANx50) to add conservatism to the required decompression.

Tec 45 Course – duration 3 days
The Tec 45 course picks up where Tec 40 leaves off and takes your training as a Tec diver further and deeper. It is the second sub-course in the full PADI Tec Diver course. You will learn the skills and equipment and planning needed to dive to a maximum of 45 metres/145 feet. You will acquire the knowledge to plan and execute single and repetitive decompression dives using a single stage cylinder of EANx or oxygen to accelerate or add conservatism to the decompression stops.

Tec 50 Course – duration 3 days
This course completes your training as an entry-level Tec diver taking you past the limits of recreational diving. During your training you will make actual decompression dives as deep as 50 metres/165 feet. You will be using enriched air nitrox and/or oxygen for decompression and use desk top decompression software to create custom dive tables and plan your dives. By the end of the course you will qualify to make technical decompression dives independently.

TDI Courses
TDI is the largest technical certification agency in the world.  As one of the first agencies to provide training in mixed gas diving and rebreathers, TDI is seen as an innovator of new diving techniques and programs which previously were not available to the general public. TDI is committed to offering the highest quality training supported by the latest materials with the most up to date information and techniques.  TDI’s materials are written by authors that acutely conduct the type of diving they are writing about.  Those same materials are update as technology and equipment change

Programmes on offer:
Advanced nitrox
Decompression procedures
Extended Range

Important Note
All course students are required to sign a TDI Medical form prior to starting the course. If the student has any of the medical conditions listed then signed clearance from a doctor, valid within 12 months, will be required.

Advanced Nitrox course – duration 3 days
This course examines the use of EAN-21 through 100 % oxygen for optimal mixes to a depth of 40 m. The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures for utilizing EAN-21 through 100 % oxygen for dives not requiring staged decompression (decompression techniques may be combined with this course).

Decompression procedures – duration 3 days
This course examines the theory, methods and procedures of planned stage decompression diving. This program is designed as a stand-alone course or it may be taught in conjunction with such TDI courses as Advanced Nitrox, Advanced Wreck, or Extended Range. The objective of this course is to train divers how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive not exceeding a maximum depth of 45 m unless taught in conjunction with the Extended Range Course. The most common equipment requirements, gear set-up, and decompression techniques are presented. Students are permitted to utilize Nitrox mixes or O2 for decompression if the mix is within their current certification level

Extended Range – duration 5-6 days
The objective of this course is to train divers in the proper techniques, equipment requirements, and hazards of deep air diving to a maximum of 55 m and utilizing Nitrox mixtures or oxygen for staged decompression. This course is also a prerequisite for the TDI Advanced Trimix Gas Course.

BSAC Courses
Join a BSAC course and you join a worldwide group of people who share a real passion for scuba diving and technical diving.

BSAC are the UK’s leading dive club and the sport’s National Governing Body, providing an internationally-recognized diver training and development programme via a network of clubs and centres across the country and overseas.

Tekstreme are BSAC’s largest training facility worldwide, so if you want the highest standards of training and great diving in good company, then BSAC is for you.

Programs on offer:
Advanced nitrox

Advanced nitrox – duration 3 days
The aims of this course are to Introduce Divers to the meticulous dive planning and practical skills required when diving and decompressing using enriched Nitrox mixtures. Divers are taught to monitor time spent at different depths tracking different partial pressures of oxygen in order to avoid oxygen toxicity. You will cover procedures to teach the safe use of up to EANx 50 as both a diving and decompression gas.