Tec Trimix Instructor

PADI TecRec Instructors provide the most comprehensive technical instruction available. Tec Trimix divers explore the outer edges of technical deep diving. If you are both a PADI Tec Deep Instructor (or you can become one in conjunction with this course) and Tec Trimix Diver (or you can become one in conjunction with this course), then the PADI Trimix Instructor training is ideal for you. The TecRec Trimix Instructor incorporates instructional philosophies and course goals that directly address the demanding and challenging nature of technical diving with helium gas mixes.  We can offer the PADI Trimix Instructor course in both backmount and sidemount configurations.

As a PADI TecRec Trimix Instructor, you’ll be one of the elite who can teach the PADI Tec Trimix Diver course. During the course you’ll learn how to teach diving at the cutting edge down to a depth of 90 metres

You must :

• Have a minimum of 200 logged dives with at least 20 technical decompression dives requiring at least one stage/deco cylinder. Of these, at least 10 must have been made deeper than 40 metres using trimix.
• Be a PADI Tec Deep Instructor, or have successfully completed the PADI Tec Deep Instructor Training course including the instructor examinations.
• Be a renewed PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer or higher level PADI Instructor.
• Be certified as a PADI Trimix Diver or have a qualifying full trimix certification.

Upon successful completion, the candidate must meet the following criteria:

• Have a minimum of 350 logged dives, with at least 50 decompression dives, 30 deeper than 40 metres using trimix as the bottom gas, also at least 10 of these deeper than 50metres using trimix with less than 21 percent Oxygen.
• Have assisted with at least one PADI Trimix course.
• Have successfully completed the Tec Trimix Instructor Standards Exam and Tec Trimix Instructor Theory and Practical Application Exam.
• Be 18 years old