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PADI Discover Technical Diving

This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses.

Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You get to wear all the extra tec diving gear and take it for a test dive. Your PADI Tec Instructor may introduce a few basic skills, such as primary to secondary regulator switch and gas shutdown procedures.

PADI Tec Basics is an introduction for further technical diving courses, such as Tec 40 Diver, Tec 45 Diver, Tec 50 Diver, and both Tec Trimix 65 and Tec Trimix Diver courses.

PADI Tec Basics certificate does not have an expiration date, and it will serve you for life!

Requirements

Note that qualifying certifications from other diver training organizations may apply.

Program

  • 1 knowledge development session
  • 1 practical application session
  • 1 confined water dive

Dives

  • 12 meters depth
  • 0 minutes deco
  • 0 deep stops

Gasses

  • bottom: air
  • deco: none
  • travel: none

Frequently Asked Questions

What equipment I need?
  • Full technical equipment is required
  • Two multigas computers (trimix, nitrox, oxygen)
  • Dry suit, fins
  • Backplate, wing BCD
  • Two tec regulators
  • Three stage regulators
  • Primary and secondary light

Depending on a location there is possibility to rent some of the equipment. Please contact us for details.

For example in Dahab, Egypt, we can provide all the equipment.

Where will be the training course held?
  • Dahab, Egypt (open + confined water dives)
  • DeepSpot in Mszczonów, Poland (optional confined water dives)
  • Any other location (upon request)

Mszczonów is a 40-minute drive southwest from Warsaw and 3.5 hours from Cracow, Poland.

Dahab is in Egypt on Sinai peninsula. 4 hours flight from Cracow/Katowice, Poland.

Who will be my instructor?

Matt is a hypoxic trimix instructor, technical diving instructor, Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) diver, PADI IDC Staff Instructor, NAUI Instructor, IANTD Instructor, and Scientific Diver, in accordance with the standards of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences and Florida International University. DAN Instructor of First Aid with AED, BLS, Advanced Oxygen Provider and PADI Emergency First Response Instructor for both primary and secondary child/adult care with AED. Currently completing certifications in Commercial Diver class III and Cave Diving. Graduated from "Introduction to Saturation Diving" from FIU at Aquarius Reef Base. Awarded the PADI Certificate of Excellence and the twice PADI Elite Instructor Award.

Matt is also the lead instructor for EVA602 (Underwater Analog EVA), and the "Scientific Diver Course" for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (formerly known as Project PoSSUM).

He is currently involved in the development of a neutral buoyancy training space suit and a underwater test of the Advanced Crew Medical Restraint System for commercial astronaut ACLS and CPR procedures.

More about Matt's credentials: here

PADI Tec Trimix Instructor PADI Tec Deep Instructor PADI IDC Staff Instructor AAUS Scientific Diver

PADI Certificate of Excellence PADI Elite Instructor Award 2022 PADI Elite Instructor Award 2023

Matt at Blue Hole, Dahab, Egypt (Oct 2022) Matt on rebreather in Dahab Matt and Agata in Dahab

What insurance do I need?

All technical diving requires proper insurance. We recommend DAN Pro Insurance, which covers decompression sickness, hyperbaric chamber treatment, and other diving-related accidents.

More information about DAN Pro insurance: here

What medical qualifications I must meet?

PADI standards define health criteria that you must meet. In case of any problems, you need a doctor's written approval to dive. No exceptions to these rules! Make sure you comply (or have written approval from a doctor) before traveling to Poland. The Divers Medical Questionnaire and Medical Statement form is available here.

What documents and forms I need to sign?

At the beginning of the course (and before any in-water activities), student divers must:

  • Pass the e-learning course
  • Successfully complete a quick review
  • Sign the PADI Release of Liability/Assumption of Risk Acknowledgment Form
  • Sign the PADI Standard Safe Diving Practices Statement of Understanding
  • Sign the PADI Medical Statement

No signature, no diving. No exceptions!

Application

Please contact us at info@astronaut.center

Payment

Warning

Mind, that traditionally technical courses will include the cost of instructor gasses and logistics (split between all students).

Invoice

We can issue both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) invoices.