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What Is Technical Diving

Technical Diving takes your diving beyond the limits of recreational “no-decompression” dives, opening the door to longer dives in shallow waters or adventures to greater depths and unique locations. It significantly enhances your skills, knowledge, and experience, offering access to underwater worlds few ever see.

  • Extended Range – Explore depths beyond 40 meters (130 feet).
  • Diverse Environments – Venture into caves, shipwrecks, and other extraordinary sites.
  • Advanced Skills – Master specialized gas mixtures and decompression procedures.
  • Specialized Equipment – Use cutting-edge gear, including closed or semi-closed circuit rebreathers.
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PADI TecRec trains divers to safely explore deeper and more challenging dives using advanced skills, gases, and specialized equipment.

Why Technical Diving?

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Sidemount Diving

Wearing more than one tank has become increasingly popular for technical diving. With the Tec Sidemount Diver course you can apply what you learn to other TecRec courses.

If you've looked into technical diving, you realize that tec divers always wear more than one tank. Sidemount is an increasingly popular way to configure multiple cylinders for technical diving. You can enter the world of tec diving with the Tec Sidemount Diver course and apply what you learn to other TecRec courses. Your instructor may offer to integrate this course with the Tec 40, Tec 45 or Tec 50 courses.

Sidemount diver underwater

Rebreather Diving

Rebreathers are intriguing. They're cutting-edge dive technology. Always wanted to try one? The Discover Rebreather program lets you dive with a recreational rebreather or a technical closed circuit rebreather (CCR) in controlled conditions with a PADI Rebreather Instructor or Tec CCR Instructor. You'll discover how quiet diving can be without bubbles and quickly learn how different buoyancy control is. A Discover Rebreather experience is an ideal opportunity to give rebreathers a try before you sign up for a full course. Or, if you're already a rebreather diver, you can participate in the program to try a new or different type of rebreather.

Rebreather diver underwater

Technical Diving Instructors

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Sherif Khairat

Sherif Khairat

Full Trimix CCR Cave instructor

Sherif is a Full Trimix CCR Cave instructor, his machine of choice is the ISC Megalodon (he is the longest-standing Meg CCR Instructor in South Sinai). Additionally, he is teaching using ISC Pathfinder and APD Evolution, along with being certified on CCRs such as the JJ-CCR and SF-2. Normally, Sherif is conducting courses sanctioned by IANTD and TDI. He’s been a technical diving instructor based in Egypt for many years and has unparalleled experience of the tec diving sites of Sharm El Sheikh, Dahab, and the surrounding areas. He teaches Closed Circuit and Open Circuit up to full Trimix and is a highly experienced cave explorer, who located and mapped several new underwater cave systems in Egypt.

Andy Auckland

Andy Auckland

Full Trimix CCR instructor

Andy is a Full Trimix CCR instructor. His machine of choice is JJ-CCR (he is the longest-standing JJ CCR Instructor in South Sinai). He also teaches APD Evolution, Hollis Prism 2, ISC Megalodon, ISC Pathfinder, and SF-2. He teaches TDI, IANTD, TecRec, SSI and ANDI. He has been a technical diving instructor since 2006 and has travelled extensively, settling back in Egypt in late 2016 – prior to this he taught in Cyprus, The Canaries, Greece, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the UK. He teaches both closed circuit and open circuit to full Exploration Trimix level and has a passion for combining this with exploration of the overhead environment, having being involved with teams locating and exploring new cave systems in Egypt and expanding wreck penetration options on some World class wrecks such as the Zenobia in Cyprus. Andy is also a very experienced Technical Sidemount instructor, offering courses and equipment workshops.

Diving Courses

Sharm Waterworld is a professional diving center based in Sharm El Sheikh, offering safe courses for all levels.

  • Discover Scuba Diving

    Discover Technical Diving

    This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses. Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You

    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> PADI Open Water Diver
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> Minimum of 10 logged dives
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> 15 years old
  • Discover Scuba Diving

    Discover Technical Diving

    This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses. Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You

    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> PADI Open Water Diver
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> Minimum of 10 logged dives
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> 15 years old
  • Discover Scuba Diving

    Discover Technical Diving

    This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses. Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You

    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> PADI Open Water Diver
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> Minimum of 10 logged dives
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> 15 years old
  • Discover Scuba Diving

    Discover Technical Diving

    This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses. Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You

    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> PADI Open Water Diver
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> Minimum of 10 logged dives
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> 15 years old
  • Discover Scuba Diving

    Discover Technical Diving

    This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses. Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You

    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> PADI Open Water Diver
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> Minimum of 10 logged dives
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> 15 years old
  • Discover Scuba Diving

    Discover Technical Diving

    This short experience is designed to introduce divers to basic technical diving skills and procedures in a confined water setting. Discover Tec may credit toward the Tec Basics and Tec 40 Diver courses. Curious about technical (tec) diving, but not sure about jumping into a certification course? Discover Tec is a short, confined water experience to try out technical diving. You

    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> PADI Open Water Diver
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> Minimum of 10 logged dives
    • ="/wwwroot/images/icons/sprite.svg?v=30#check"> 15 years old