Rachel teaching Tec 40. Oct 2013Well it was bound to happen. I have signed up for the PADI Tech 40 class. Spent week reading chapter after chapter, knowledge review after knowledge review to prepare fo this weekend classroom work and configuration secession. Rachel is our instructor. I have been Rachel's student many times over the years. Once she started into tech I kept with recreational.
During the shop's rebuilding phase they continue to increase recreational diving and rebreather diving. But the open circuit tec diving has been hit or miss. Over the few months Rachel has decided to step in and take control of the open circuit tec schedule. This is the second batch of tec classes she has put together in the last month. From what I hear she has classes planned for November and December as well.
Tec 40 is the into course to tec diving. You can go to 130 ft (same a recreational diving) but you can go into deco up to 10 minutes with up to 50 percent oxygen. Beyond Tec 40 is Tec 45 and Tec 50 using PADI's System. It is a building bock system to extend depth and decompression time.
Spent the last part of the class today breaking down several of my regulators and reconfigure them to prepare for next weekends pool and quarry dives.
Will have to see how this goes. I made it to this quarry sessions a couple of years ago but could not complete the open water ocean dives due to schedule conflicts, I am going to miss this classes ocean dives too, similar conflicts. But i will get this done. I want this C-Card. Not sure how much further I will go in Open Circuit Tec but I want to complete this.