Tec Deep Instructor

To conduct all subcourses in the PADI Tec Diver course, you must be a teaching status PADI Instructor who is certified as a PADI Tec Deep Instructor.

To conduct the Tec 40 course only, you must be a renewed, teaching status PADI Instructor who is certified as a PADI Tec Instructor.

You may qualify by completing a PADI Tec Instructor or PADI Tec Deep Instructor Training course conducted by a PADI Tec Deep Instructor Trainer

Candidate prerequisites

To enroll in a PADI Tec Deep Instructor training course, you must meet the following criteria:

1. Be a renewed PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (or a PADI
Instructor with a higher rating).

2. Be a PADI Enriched Air Instructor, or have successfully
completed a PADI Enriched Air Instructor training course.

3. Be a PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor, or have
successfully completed a PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor training course.

4. Have a minimum of 100 logged dives, where at least 20
dives were made with enriched air nitrox, 25 dives were deeper than 18
metres/60 feet and at least 15 dives were deeper than 30 metres/ 100 feet.

Candidate post requisites

Upon successfully completing the PADI Tec Deep Instructor training course, before sending your application to PADI, you must meet the following criteria:

1. Be a renewed PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer or PADI Instructor with a higher rating.

2. Be a PADI Enriched Air Instructor.

3. Be a PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor.

4. Be certified as a PADI Tec 50 diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organization. For the purposes of this level, a qualifying certification is certification for technical deep diving using air, enriched air and pure oxygen for decompression dives to at least 50 metres/ 165 feet. The PADI Course Director conducting the Tec Deep Instructor training course may include the Tec 50 diver level training and certification in the program, issuing the certification when you successfully complete the PADI Tec Deep Instructor training course.

5. Have assisted with at least one PADI Tec 50 course or one Tec 45 course. If you have a qualifying instructor certification from another training organization, having taught or assisted with one course that qualifies as PADI Tec 45 and/or Tec 50 courses may meet this requirement, as stipulated on the Tec Deep Instructor Application. Completing the PADI Tec Deep Instructor training course credits as having assisted a Tec 50 diver course. Other types of technical training (instructor level or assisting) may meet these requirements.

6. Have a minimum of 270 dives logged, with at least 25 stage decompression dives that had a maximum depth deeper than 40 metres/130 feet.

7. Have certified a total of ten or more PADI Deep Divers and/or PADI Enriched Air Divers. Any combination that totals ten is acceptable.

8. Have successfully completed the Tec Deep Instructor Standards Exam and Tec Deep Instructor Theory and Practical Application Exam.

9. Meet the peer review waterskill requirements listed on the PADI Tec Deep Instructor Application through the attesting signature of a PADI Tec Deep Instructor, or a PADI Instructor with a qualifying rating from another training organization.

10. Minimum age 18 years.