Padi Tec 40-50 Manual

[MyronGanes]

Can someone confirm this? The Padi Tec Deep Diver manual ONLY comes on a CD as a pdf now? I can't even get an actual book? And the disk is $50?

 

[tursiops]

The PADI Pro site only shows a Crew-Pak that has the Manual on CD, plus a couples of other things, and the price is $116.45.

"Includes: Tec Deep Diver Manual on CD-ROM, TecRec checklist and planning slate, decal.

This kit does NOT include: the Emergency Procedures slate (required) 60402 or the Deep Stop Calculation table (required) use part numbers 60400 (imperial) or 61400 (metric)"

Those last two items cost $13.60 each.

No manual alone is shown, and no printed manual is shown.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I got mine on a CD.

 

[miikey87]

Has this been updated since the digital switch?

 

[Pinecube]

People still use CDs?

 

[RyanT]

People still use CDs?

Exactly.

 

[PfcAJ]

The PADI Pro site only shows a Crew-Pak that has the Manual on CD, plus a couples of other things, and the price is $116.45.

"Includes: Tec Deep Diver Manual on CD-ROM, TecRec checklist and planning slate, decal.

This kit does NOT include: the Emergency Procedures slate (required) 60402 or the Deep Stop Calculation table (required) use part numbers 60400 (imperial) or 61400 (metric)"

Those last two items cost $13.60 each.

No manual alone is shown, and no printed manual is shown.

Deep stop calculation table?

I'm interested in this.

 

[rjack321]

Deep stop calculation table?

I'm interested in this.

Looks like their approach for adding stops below the DSAT (Buhlmann?) required stop depth. I.e. if on a 200ft dive your first required stop is at 90ft you start your deep stops at 145ft.

 

[DevonDiver]

Paper manuals haven't been available in the Philippines for over a year. I assume that's the same for the whole Asia Pacific region... maybe globally.

Hopefully it presages a future release of entirely new manuals.....as the existing manual wasn't updated since edition #1 in 2004. It's hopelessly antiquated.

The 'deep stops' mentioned are basically Pyle Stops.... dating back to an era where our deco software ran on MS-DOS. IMHO it's completely irrelevant given advances in deco modelling and planning software technology.

The only use I find for the 'deep stops' elements in that course manual is as part of a chat on 'historical context' to deco modelling....which also includes the development of bubble, then dual-phase models.... and of course, comparison with content models and gradient factors use.

 

[Colliam7]

Can someone confirm this? The Padi Tec Deep Diver manual ONLY comes on a CD as a pdf now? I can't even get an actual book?

Yes. That is correct.

And the disk is $50?

That I can't say with certainty. I don't have a price list handy, but it sounds right.