ABOUT US
ProTec stands for Professional Technical and Recreational Diving. We are an international training and certification organization that is offering services for newcomers, divers and dive professionals. We work together with dive instructors and dive centres promoting responsible, sustainable diving among all levels of diving business.
ProTec roots lay back in the early eighties, when the founders of ProTec, among some enthusiastic deep and mixed gas divers in Austria and Switzerland, set up their way to dive beyond the sport diving limits with new rules and training to achieve maximum safety for this extreme sport.
These activities started on a club status, while later on an international cooperation with some technical dive organizations followed.
In 1997 the name and logo of ProTec was newly established together with a re-organization, to facilitate a step into international activity. While in the early stage the focus was strictly on technical diving, ProTec was the first tec-organization that extended the program with so-called recreational diving.
The ProTec’s core is the board of directors and founding members as a non-profit cooperation, which grants rights and assign tasks to international partners. These are business companies, commissioned and authorized for the operational work.
Founded as a pure technical diving organization, just 2 years later, the so-called recreational diving was added to complement the program, which was very well accepted and brought success right from the start.
The expansion of ProTec´s boundaries has been followed by international cooperation with diving organizations.
So, in 2005 the ProTec has joined CMAS as an international Federation, as there was a very close accordance with the CMAS standards. Since then, ProTec offers also a CMAS full adequate course program besides the worldwide well-known OWD/AOWD program.
Additionally, agreements with state agencies like the Egyptian Chamber of Diving and Water Sports (CDWS) and the Spanish list of accredited dive organisations were successfully made.
The ProTec territorial offices, operated by international partners were arranged for a better customer focus and efficiency. The first representation, the ProTec Europe grows to a well-developed enterprise. The next business development steps are orientated to explore the possibilities as the ProTec America and ProTec Asia projects. The ProTec International team has started the main preparations in 2018.
Nowadays ProTec represents itself as a modern, international training organization for contemporary technical and scuba diving.
A milestone in 2018 was the official registration of the ProTec (Professional Technical and Recreational) Sport Diving Training and Certifications at DIN CERTCO Database #RX004 for DIN EN ISO 24801-(1-3) and at DIN CERTCO Database #RX005 for DIN EN ISO 24802-(1-2).
The new Website with a modern web design trends, techniques has been successfully launched in 2019.
The motivated ProTec team works recently on development of innovative ProTec Member´s Area. ProTec self administration platform is designed for those who are interested in diving (divers, instructors, center owners). It has an easy to-navigate interface and helps ProTec Members to manage their diving experience and certifications. This powerful online platform provides a flexible course enrollment for all levels of ProTec Members. It simplifies and automates your administration work, making it easy and more productive.
The execution of new Member´s Area is planned for autumn 2019.
We focus on the quality, flexibility and individual support of our instructors, which is the basis for a good and successful cooperation.
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