Technical Diving


The challenge and adventure of exploring places that no one else has ever seen.



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What is technical diving?

Technical scuba diving involves going beyond recreational scuba diving limits and includes one or more of the following:

  • Diving beyond 40 metres/130 feet
  • Required stage decompression
  • Accelerated decompression and/or the use of variable gas mixtures during the dive
  • Use of extensive equipment and technologies

In technical diving the surface is often inaccessible in an emergency, so tec divers use extensive procedures, equipment and training to manage the added risks and potential hazards.

The PADI TecRec Difference

PADI TecRec courses are the quality benchmarks in the tec diving world due to their rigorous, yet logical, training sequence and the PADI educational materials that support them.


TecRec courses are instructionally valid and have a seamless course flow that takes you from a new tec diver to one qualified to dive to the outer reaches of sport diving. Each level introduces you to new gear and procedures to extend your dive limits.


Why would I want to be a tec diver?


However, you can be an accomplished, avid top-notch diver your entire life without making a tec dive. Tec diving does require significantly more effort, discipline and equipment, which means it’s not for everyone.

How long has technical diving been around?

Explorers have always developed new techniques and equipment to extend the range of their adventures, and divers are no different.

By the early 1990s, several groups of divers around the world began experimenting with technologies for deep diving beyond recreational limits to explore both caves and wrecks.

These communities united and emerged as “technical diving”. Since then, tec diving continues to develop both in scope and in its technologies.

See what technical divers have to say. . .


Tec 40

(allow 3 days)
£140 a Day

Tec 45

(allow 2 days)
£140 a Day

Tec 50

(allow 3 days)
£140 a Day

Tec Trimix 65

(allow 4 days)
£160 a Day

Tec Trimix Diver

(allow 4 days)
£180 a Day

Tec Gas Blender

(one day)
£180 a Day

Tec Instructor

Tec Deep Instructor

(allow 5 days plus 2 days assisting)
£140 a Day

Tec Gas Blender Instructor

(one day)
£150 a Day

Tec Trimix Instructor

(allow 3 days plus 2 days assisting)
£150 a Day