Tec Diver Course Instructor Guide
(includes newly revised instructor guide and instructor appendix CD-ROM)
- replaces 70407 Tec Deep Inst. Guide
Product # 70605
Tec 40-45-50 Instructor Slates Set
Newly-revised 19 slate set, coil-bound and printed on “wet notes.”
- replaces 60204 Tec Deep Inst. Cue Cards
Product # 60420
Tec Diver Course Lesson Guides CD-ROM
- replaces 70838 Tec Deep Lesson Guides
Product # 70913
Tec Trimix Instructor Guide
(includes instructor guide and Tec Trimix 65 addendum)
If you already own the Tec Trimix Instructor Guide, please contact PADI Training regarding the revisions. Product # 70430
Exams
Tec 40 student exam (product # 71040)
Tec 45 student exam (product # 71045)
Tec 50 student exam (product # 71050)
Blank answer sheets and answer keys are in the Tec Diver Instructor Guide and will be available soon on the PADI Pros site.
The instructor-level exams have changed. If you are a TecRec Instructor Trainer please contact PADI for details.
Unchanged Items
None of the student materials have changed for any of the courses.
No changes to the Equipment Set-Up DVD.
Gas Blender: none of the Gas Blender materials have changed. The instructor guide is now in a new binder so it matches the other guides, but the content is unchanged.
Tec Trimix: students use the Tec Trimix student exam for the Tec Trimix 65 course. Instructors can continue to use the same Trimix Lesson Guides.
Promotional
The new TecRec ‘Go Beyond’ brochure is product # 19205.
If you have any questions about implementing the new courses, the changes that have taken place, or becoming a PADI TecRec instructor or diver, contact your local PADI TDD Technical Consultant.


but I can giant stride off with 4 tanks. Once you’re in the water the kit becomes more manageable – the same as your recreational kit does. And here’s the inside scoop…yes there’s more of it but it’s no more technical than your recreational kit. If you understand how that works then you’ll understand this. Your kit, simply put, is doubled. You take 2 of everything, just to be sure, rather like a handbag really!
It doesn’t actually seem that long ago that ladies were in the minority on recreational boats and I hope the numbers of tec chicks will increase too. But please don’t make me wait too long as I really need to have a serious conversation about crotch straps.
Two seminars were conducted at the DEMA show in Orlando, USA on the 4th and 5th November; one on the future of CCRs in the recreational field and one explaining the range of 






Report by Leigh Cunningham, TecRec Instructor and TDI IT
to sink. The propellers of the Victoria were still running as the ship plunged into the deep blue, ramming the ship vertically into the sea bed, where she lies today.








