PADI Tec 45 Course in Malta
Expand Your Technical Diving Skills with Confidence
Ready to dive deeper? The PADI Tec 45 course takes your technical diving abilities to the next level. This intermediate-level course builds on your existing knowledge, teaching you to safely execute planned decompression dives to a depth of 45 meters. You’ll refine advanced techniques and develop essential skills for exploring Malta’s stunning deep wrecks and caves.
What’s Covered in The PADI Tec 45 Course?
This course advances your dive planning, equipment configuration, and gas management knowledge, including:
- Planning and executing dives to 45 meters with extended decompression stops.
- Learning proper gas-switching protocols to accelerate decompression.
- Mastering emergency procedures and handling potential technical diving scenarios.
- Enhancing buoyancy, trim, and propulsion techniques essential for controlled decompression dives.
Optional: PADI Tec 45 Trimix Upgrade
Enhance your training further with our optional Tec 45 Trimix Upgrade. This addon introduces you to diving with trimix (a blend of helium, oxygen, and nitrogen), significantly reducing narcosis at depth. You’ll learn to safely use trimix blends containing 21% oxygen and up to 35% helium, providing greater clarity, control, and safety on your deeper dives around Malta.
Duration
- 3–4 days (varies based on experience and individual progress)
Requirements
- Certified PADI Tec 40 diver (or qualifying certification)
- Minimum of 50 logged dives, including at least 12 dives deeper than 18 meters on enriched air nitrox
- Valid diving medical clearance (issued within the last 12 months)
- Minimum age: 18 years
PADI Tec 45 Course Price Includes:
- Twinset, stage cylinders, and weights rental
- All required decompression gases (standard blends)
- Professional, personalized instruction (special rates available for buddy pairs)
- Certification card upon successful course completion
- Land transport to dive sites
Price Excludes:
- PADI manuals
- Diver’s logbook
- Personal Tec equipment (available for rent)
- Additional supplements and optional Tec 45 Trimix Upgrade gases
What’s Next?
Once certified, you can seamlessly advance your training by enrolling in the PADI Tec 50 course, enhancing your diving capabilities to even greater depths and more complex decompression dives.
Learning Material
PADI Tec 45 eLearning (Not included in course price)
Tec Diving Supplements
Diving | Cost |
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Full kit (2 main regs, 2 stage regs, wing and harness) | €40.00/dive |
Drysuit Bottle with reg | €7.00 |
Night dive (including torch & batteries) | €20.00 |
Day trip to Gozo (road & ferry - shore dives) | €30.00 |
Single Hard Boat Dive (minimum 6 pax) | €75.00 |
Single Hard Boat Dive, long distance (minimum 6 pax) | €95.00 |
Boat charter, for less than six divers | CHARTERS |
Air mixes, Blending Rates and Sorb | Cost |
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Helium (per litre) | €0.09 |
O2 (per litre) | €0.02 |
Sofnolime per kg | €10.00 |
Sofnolime 20kg tub | €170.00 |
Intersorb per kg | €7.00 |
Tec Gear (only rented to client taking a course or on guided dives) | |
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Main regulator | €8.00 |
Stage regulator | €6.00 |
Wing & Harness | €15.00 |
Reel & SMB | €7.00 |
Digital Depth Gauge/Computer | €7.00 |
Stage Ali 80 (11.2 liter aluminium) | €8.00 |
Stage 7 liter (Alu) | €7.00 |
Rebreather tanks 2/3 liters | €6.00 |
Dry suit tanks with regulator(1 liter) (35 EUR deposit) | €7.00 |
Budget Pack (2 main regs, 2 stage regs, wing & harness) | €40.00 |
CCR unit (per day) | €100.00 |
DPV | €40.00 |
Diving | Cost |
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Swordfish | €6.00 |
Southwold Bow | €8.00 |
Southwold stern | €8.00 |
Polynesian | €8.00 |
Schnellboot | €8.00 |
JU88 South | €12.00 |
Douglas Skyraider | €12.00 |
Trusty Star | €12.00 |
Luciston | €12.00 |
Maryland Bomber | €12.00 |
Nasturtium | €15.00 |
B-24 Liberator | €15.00 |
Spitfire | €15.00 |
JU88 | €15.00 |
HMS Russell | €20.00 |
ORP Kujawiak (L72) | €40.00 |
HMS Urge | €40.00 |
HMS Olympus | €40.00 |