If you’re a recreational diver who wants to try something new and keep things exciting, the Euro-Divers team in Spain has a collection of TX Specialties that will extend your skills and give you a taste of tech diving without going full-on techie!
It’s all too easy to stick with the same equipment and techniques you first became comfortable with as a novice diver, but with the ever-evolving diving scene we invite you to push your boundaries, feel the buzz of finning out of your comfort zone and emerge into the forefront of diving.
What is your favorite TX Specialty?
Let us know in the comments below if you have already completed any of these TX Specialties.
Full Face Mask Diver
Minimum certification: PADI Open Water Diver. Minimum age: 12 years.
Traditionally the realm of working divers, full face masks protect the eyes and nose and make diving in very cold water more comfortable. Benefits to recreational divers include the possibility of adding communications gear and making it easy for those who prefer to breathe through the nose as well as the mouth.
The course includes learning how to:
- Properly prepare and check your mask for the dive.
- Make adjustments underwater and clear water out of the mask.
- Respond to simulated out-of-gas emergency situations.
Sidemount Diver
Minimum certification: PADI Open Water Diver. Minimum age: 15 years.
Originally created for penetration diving, sidemount diving has become very popular in open water environments too. It improves position and streamlining, offers more air due to having a double tank capacity and improves safety as the air source is redundant.
The course includes learning how to:
- Properly assemble and configure sidemount scuba diving equipment.
- Trim your weight system and sidemount gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.
- Manage gas by switching second stages as planned, if wearing two cylinders.
- Respond correctly to potential problems when sidemount diving.
Self-Reliant Diver
Minimum certification: PADI Advanced Water Diver. plus a minimum of 100 logged dives.
Minimum age: 18 years
We are all trained to respect the buddy system, but in some situations, for some divers, it’s very useful to have the equipment and skills to be a self-reliant diver and be able to dive independently without a buddy. Benefits of being a self-reliant diver includes improved safety in buddy separation situations and essential for underwater photographers who often end up left alone when waiting too long for the perfect photo – with the skills gained on this course, you could safely wait for the entire dive in one spot for the fish to smile! This course ties in very nicely with the Sidemount Diver since both covers how to dive with a redundant air source.
The course includes learning how to:
- Performing an air consumption rate swim to gather information for later calculation.
- Switching to a redundant air supply system during simulated emergency situations.
- Swimming without a mask.
- Navigating to various points, including your exit.
- Using a DSMB.
Look out for the Deep X course which will give recreational divers a taste of deco diving – coming soon!
Contact us for more information about any of these courses and start planning your taste of tech adventure.
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
