Long-established as leaders in the world of recreational diving, PADI has taken a giant stride into technical diving. Less than 10 years from their first cautious acceptance of Nitrox in the mid-90's, they are now offering a complete range of technical diving courses.

These programmes provide the techniques and procedures necessary for diving beyond recreational dive limits.

The 'Tec Rec' programmes cover a number of different courses from the 'Discover Tec' which offers a chance to try on a set of doubles with technical configuration, to the DSAT Tec Trimix Diver course for the extreme diver ready to further explore the world of technical deep diving.

The well-produced suite of student materials, including manuals, videos and slates, allows the course to follow the same performance-based instructional system familiar from PADI's recreational courses.