Pro-Tech Phuket Upgrades Facilities, Adds Courses
Changes are afoot at Phuket’s Pro-Tech Dive College with the opening of new facilities the boss gaining new closed-circuit rebreather ratings.
Construction of Pro-Tech’s new facility in Chalong has taken about six months, but is now complete, the company says on its Tech-CCR News & Events blog.
The purpose built center boasts multi media classrooms full nitrox/trimix blending system, fully stocked showroom and dedicated rebreather centre with booster pump, consumable and units to learn on. The last 6 years has seen Pro-Tech establish itself as Phuket premier Technical Diving facility and having trained over 1000 technical students we are able to take our training to the next level with the new centre aiding support.
Owner Matthew Patridge also announced on the blog he can now teach courses on the Ouroboros and Sentinel CCR units. Phil Short, a factory trainer for the two niche units, flew to Thaialnd to get him certified, he said.


Niall Jeffires says:
Monday, August 3, 2009 at 2:10pm
I like this blog, but do you guys actually ever do anything yourself of just post about everyone else?
Aquanauts says:
Monday, August 3, 2009 at 2:26pm
Hi Niall, you should read a little more closely!
Thailand Tech Diving is about THAILAND, not just us. We post information relatted to tech diving in ALL of the country, not just making it a PR mouthpiece for us.
However, if you read more closely you’ll see we both talk about stuff we are doing AND write original content. Examples?
Our Courses and Expeditions
http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/2009/07/double-tec-deep-course-puts-students-to-test/
http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/2009/04/deep-exploration-of-thom-song-hong-cave/
http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/2009/04/photo-log-of-cavern-diver-course-at-thong-pha-phom-cavern-photos-2008/
Original Content
http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/2009/07/koh-taos-unicorn-wreck-claims-another-life/
http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/2009/06/dsat-outlines-coming-revamp-of-tecrec-program-at-pattaya-forum/
Thanks and keep reading!