Technical Diving
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What is Tec Diving?
Technical Diving allows you to extend your diving beyond recreational “no stop” limits. This allows you to plan longer dives at shallower depths, or to plan dives to more advanced depths and locations. Technical (tec) diving allows you to greatly expand your diving skills and knowledge and can provide you with experiences and exploration opportunities in places very few people will ever see:
Expand your horizons
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Increased Range - Exploring deeper than 40 metres/130 feet
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Increased Diving Environments - Diving in caves, shipwrecks or other special environments
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Increased Skills - Using specialized gas mixtures and decompression procedures
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Specialized Equipment - Using highly specialized equipment, like a closed or semi-closed circuit rebreather


Technical scuba diving is diving other than conventional commercial or research diving that takes divers beyond recreational diving limits. It is further defined as and includes one or more of the following: diving beyond 40 metres/130 feet, required stage decompression, diving in an overhead environment beyond 40 linear metres/130 feet of the surface, accelerated decompression, and/or the use of variable gas mixtures during the dive. Technical scuba diving uses extensive methodologies, technologies and training to manage the added risk.