Professional Technical and Recreational Diving(ProTec) is an internationaldiver certification agency based inMunich, Germany.
ProTec was founded in 1997.[1] ProTec offers diving education standards and training procedures for beginners through to advanced and diving professionals. Thesestandards and procedures are used bydiving instructors to conductdiver training courses. ProTec isaccredited with authorities in Spain,[2] Egypt[3] and with theGerman DIN-EN-ISO Institute for the ProTec diver ISO levels[4] and the ProTec instructor ISO ranks.[5]
Dive training at ProTec consists of theoretical and practical units as with most otherdiving agencies. There is a division into 2 main areas:Freediving andScuba diving. The scuba certifications are divided intorecreational diving andtechnical diving, where recreational is further subdivided into introduction and core and specialties. Technical certifications are categorised similarly.
Unlike other agencies, ProTec has two systems of certification for a few main levels. The certificationsOpen Water Diver (OWD),Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) andDivemaster (DM) based onRSTC standards, and the European certification system according toCMAS guidelines (1,2,3 - star system).
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