Technical diving is a different sport from recreational diving. More gear. More gas. Deeper dives. Required decompression on every dive. Tighter procedures around gas management and team communication. The programme is the lowest-friction way to find out whether the rest of it appeals to you. The session happens in a pool or in confined open water, never in technical conditions, and the instructor stays within arm's reach throughout.
The format is part show-and-tell, part hands-on. The instructor walks through the gear: why doubles, why redundant first stages, why stage cylinders clipped on D-rings rather than threaded onto a single rig. You get into the kit and find out what it feels like to move with that much hardware. Then you practice a few introductory skills: primary to secondary regulator switch, gas shutdown procedures, basic team awareness drills. None of these certify you to dive technical. They just preview the curriculum so you can make an informed call on whether to enrol in Tec Basics or Tec 40 next.
No fixed prerequisites beyond being a certified diver. No minimum logged dives. No minimum certification rank. The session credits forward: completing the programme may count toward the introductory portion of Tec Basics and the first confined-water session of the Tec 40 Diver course, at your instructor's discretion. That makes it a sensible first step rather than a sunk cost if you decide to keep going.
Children
A first taste of scuba for children aged 8 and older. They breathe underwater for the first time in shallow water, no deeper than 2 metres, with a PADI professional alongside the whole time. No exam. No certification at the end. It's a try-it experience, not a course.
Children
A scuba programme for children aged 8 and older. Sessions happen in a pool. Kids work through a sequence of AquaMissions that cover both core scuba skills and themed challenges like wreck diving, navigation, and underwater photography. Parental consent is required.