TEC IDC at Easy Divers Cyprus

About Us: Welcome to Easy Divers Cyprus.

Easy Divers began as a small concern and over the past 11 years and has grown to become a PADI 5* Instructor Development Centre. We are the leading Scuba Diver Operations on the East Coast Of Cyprus, Taking Professional Scuba Diving to the next level.

Padi TEC REC Diver Training Courses in Cyprus

We offer all aspects of Recreational TECH Diver training, Professional TEC Diver Training and Technical Training Diver and Instructor Ratings. We are the largest well stocked retail dive stores in Protaras Ayia Napa area. Dont Look Anywhere Else!

We can help your Business? If you are a dive centre and would like to upgrade to the prestige status of Padi Instructor Development Centre 'IDC '.

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We are proud to have been awarded many certificates of excellence from PADI and our customers. Our 5 star PADI IDC centre offers courses from try dives through to instructor level. We combine the academics at our centre and the Mediterranean Sea for the practical part of the course, what a perfect way to learn to dive.

The term Technical Diving is used to describe a wide range of advanced level diving activities that can be very diverse, ranging from the overhead environment, to wreck, deep and/or mixed gas diving.

Easy Divers is a PADI Tec Rec Centre that can offer you our expertise, training and experience to help improve your Technical Diving Skills.

As a general definition it is generally expected that most technical dives take place below 40m/130 ft where set decompression stops are required before surfacing.

Dives that takes place in the overhead environment, such as wreck, or cave penetration can also often be defined as technical dives as are certain types of Rebreather diving and training.

The line between technical diving and non-technical, or recreational diving is, to say the least, vague. A type of diving that may be "cutting edge" one day may be "mainstream" the next.

Nitrox Diving is a good example. Until a few years ago Nitrox diving was frowned upon and some segments of the industry actively discouraged its use as devil gas. As times changed Nitrox became an accepted part of regular recreational diving and is now a part of many dive operations around the world.

Easy Divers are proud to offer HYPER CLEAN SAFE BREATHING AIR cutting edge NITROX CONTINUOUS BLENDING and STATE OF THE ART HELIUM GAS BLENDING COMPRESSOR

When did it all start?
Technical diving was, and still is, all about wanting to go that bit further. It started the first time someone peered on the surface of a body of water, wondering what lay below. Man's dreams and natural curiosity to explore would always propel him forward – all he needed was the tools and the means to descend below the surface. Man's quest to find new ways of exploring that water now is a major sport. Recreational diving agencies have been thriving for the last three decades training the growing numbers of people young and old wanting to dive.

Since the mid eighties IANTD (International Association of Nitrox and Technical Diving), and TDI (Technical Diving International), along with a handful of other small agencies, have been training certified divers in the skills required for advanced level diving.

The goal of "Tech Diving" is not just to go somewhere, it is to go to stay, and most importantly, come back safely.

To achieve this, one must have all the necessary tools, training, equipment and experience but without a doubt, the most vital trait a diver can have is the need to improve.

We will have a full range of PADI TecRec Technical and Trimix Diving Services on Offer in 2011 .

NEW Padi TEC REC Diver Training Courses in Cyprus

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Technical Diving

Technical diving is scuba diving’s “extreme” sport, taking experienced and qualified divers far deeper than in mainstream recreational diving. Technical diving is marked by significantly more equipment and training requirements to manage the additional hazard this type of diving entails. Tec diving isn’t for everyone, but for those who hear its challenge call, the PADI TecRec courses are the answer.

What is technical diving?

Technical scuba diving is defined as diving other than conventional commercial or research diving that takes divers beyond recreational scuba diving limits. It is further defined as and includes one or more of the following:

• diving beyond 40 metres/130 feet deep

• required stage decompression

• diving in an overhead environment beyond 40 linear metres/130 linear feet of the surface

• accelerated decompression and or the use of variable gas mixtures during the dive

Because in technical diving the surface is effectively inaccessible in an emergency, tec divers use extensive methodologies and technologies and training to manage the added risks. Even with these, however, tec diving admittedly has more risk, potential hazard and shorter critical error chains than does recreational scuba diving.

How long has technical diving been around?

Most people would agree that cave diving is a form of technical diving. Cave diving developed in the late 1960s and 1970s, developing into a discipline largely like it is today by the mid 1980s. In 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” or “tec diving” with the publication of aquaCorps (no longer in print), which dedicated itself to this type of diving. Since then, tec diving continues to develop both in scope and in its technologies.

Why would I want to be a tec diver?

Tec diving not only has more risk, but it requires significantly more effort, discipline and equipment. It’s not for everyone, and you can be an accomplished, avid top-notch diver your entire life without making a tec dive. That said, there’s a cadre of individuals who want to visit places underwater that relatively few people can. Many spectacular, untouched wrecks lie at depths well below 40 metres/130 feet. Deep reefs have organisms you don’t find in the shallows. Some people enjoy the challenge and focus tec diving requires. Still others love being involved with cutting edge technologies. These reasons make tec diving rewarding.

The PADI TecRec Difference

The TecRec program debuted in 2000. Although Padi 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.

• The Tec Diver course is an integrated sequence of three sub-courses: 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.

Prerequisites:

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.)

The Fun Part

The fun part of TecRec is rising to the challenges as you dive deeper and longer than most divers ever do.

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PADI EFRI-Emergency First Response Instructor

This course teaches Instructors how to organize, conduct, market and promote the PADI Emergency First Response Course. The course emphasizes hands-on skills practice and demonstrations. The EFRI Course is low stress and makes you feel confident and relaxed.

EFR is part of several PADI certification levels (Rescue, Divemaster, AI and OWSI). Therefore, it is one of the most marketable courses in the PADI System and allows you to offer all-inclusive programs.

You do not have to send your student elsewhere to complete their diving education.
Also since the EFR course is not diving specific, you can offer this training to all your customers, friends and family.

PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Instructor ( 1 day )

Tip:This is the most popular specialty course worldwide.

Day one you will take the user course and learn about the benefits of Nitrox, safety and analyze it . Day two you will learn how to teach the course and you will go out for two enjoyable Nitrox dives.

If you are already certified as a Nitrox diver, you may take the course in one day.
We can also offer you to integrate this program into your IDC so that you will be able to save some of your valuable time.

PADI Wreck Diving Instructor ( 1 day )

The purpose of the PADI Wreck Diver Instructor Specialty course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and excitement of diving on wrecks.

The Wreck Diver Instructor Specialty course is intended as a safe, supervised introduction to wreck diving, with emphasis on fun and safety. The goals of PADI Wreck Diver Instructor Specialty trainer are:

• To demonstrate practical wreck diving knowledge, including recognizing and avoiding potential hazards, and planning procedures that make wreck diving fun.
• Explain the historical value of wrecks, social and legal issues surrounding that value, and describe some of wreck diving’s implications, including the pros and cons of removing artifacts from wrecks.
• Plan and organize dives and safely explore wrecks found within depths and conditions as good as or better than those you have been trained in.
• Help divers identify the hazards of wreck penetration diving and demonstrate the techniques and procedures required to minimize those hazards.

During the training segment Instructors are required to prepare equipment, plan the dives and demonstrate good diving skills in that environment. There will be a classroom presentation as with all our Speciality Instructor Training on the specific dives you plan to teach.

Other PADI Instructor Specialty Programs Cyprus

If you would like to take any other Specialties. Please consult our Course Director for further details.

Tip:Ask for the Specialties you want with the Course Director.