Tec Trimix Instructor

Becoming a Tec Trimix Diver takes you to the outer edge of technical diving. Earning the Tec Trimix Instructor rating makes you the person who trains these extreme divers. It's a respected tec diving instructor certification that few achieve. If you've got the experience and are up for the challenge, then it could be your next step. As a Tec Trimix Instructor you can teach the full range of deep open-circuit tec diving courses, including Tec Trimix 65 and Tec Trimix Diver.

To enroll in a Tec Trimix Instructor course, you must:

• Be a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer


• Be a PADI Tec Deep Instructor, or have completed the PADI Tec Deep Instructor training course


• Be a PADI Tec Trimix Diver


• Have a minimum of 200 logged dives, with 20 tec decompression dives of which at least 10 dives were deeper than 40 metres/130 feet using trimix.

Prior to sending in your Tec Trimix Instructor application, you must also:

• Be a PADI Tec Deep Instructor


• Have assisted with at least one Tec Trimix Diver course


• Have a minimum of 350 logged dives, with 50 decompression dives deeper than 40 metres/130 feet of which 30 dives must be deeper than 40 metres/130 feet using trimix and 10 dives deeper than 50 metres/165 feet using trimix with less than 21 percent oxygen.


• Have successfully completed the Tec Trimix Instructor course exams

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