Whether you're a fairly experienced diver looking for something more or a very experienced diver about to embark on a new branch of the sport, New Horizons Dive Centre are now offering PADI TecRec courses, and trips specifically designed for the technical diver. Technical diving is marked by significantly more equipment and training requirements to manage the additional hazard this type of diving entails. 

The PADI TecRec Difference

The TecRec program debuted in 2000. Although TecRec is not the first tec diving program (cave diver training has been around for decades), it repeatedly receives accolades for its merits.
• TecRec courses are integrated into an instructionally valid, seamless course flow that takes you from beginning tec diver to one qualified to the outer reaches of sport diving using different gas mixes.
• Each level introduces you to new gear, planning and procedures appropriate to extend your diving limits.

COURSE OUTLINE:

The Tec Diver course is an integrated sequence of three subcourses: Tec 40, Tec 45 and Tec 50. You can complete them continuously, or you can complete each level separately with a time span between them. This gives you learning efficiency, instructional integrity and schedule flexibility.

MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR COURSE:
You will need to purchase the following package:
Tec Deep Student Crew-Pak, which includes student manual, planning slate and checklist slate

EQUIPMENT PROVIDED FOR COURSE:
• Stage cylinder, regulator with long hoses etc and tech dive computer.

EQUIPMENT YOU SHOULD BRING:
• Full SCUBA gear, including wing, harness and twinset.
• (Rental of the wing, harness, twinset and one regulator is available)

PRE-REQUISITES:
TecRec prerequisites vary (see individual course descriptions), but the following applies to anyone interested in technical diving: You must be
• 18 years or older
• A mature, responsible person who will follow the required procedures and requirements strictly and faithfully
• Medically fit for tec diving (physician’s signature required)
• Willing to accept the added risks that tec diving presents
• An experienced diver with at least 100 logged dives
• Certified as a PADI Enriched Air Diver and PADI Deep Diver or equivalent (for this program equivalency is proof of training in recreational deep diving 18 meters/60 feet to 40 meters/130 feet consisting of at least four dives and training in nitrogen narcosis considerations, contingency/emergency decompression, making safety stops and air supply management OR, have a minimum of 20 logged dives deeper than 30 meters/100 feet.)

SCHEDULE, COSTS & ENROLMENT:
Pease see TecRec Dates