Diver certification agency
Professional Technical and Recreational Diving (ProTec) is an international diver certification agency based in Munich, Germany.
ProTec was founded in 1997. ProTec offers diving education standards and training procedures for beginners through to advanced and diving professionals. These standards and procedures are used by diving instructors to conduct diver training courses. ProTec is accredited with authorities in Spain, Egypt and with the German DIN-EN-ISO Institute for the ProTec diver ISO levels and the ProTec instructor ISO ranks.
Training and certification system.
Dive training at ProTec consists of theoretical and practical units as with most other diving agencies. There is a division into 2 main areas: Freediving and Scuba diving. The scuba certifications are divided into recreational diving and technical 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 certifications Open Water Diver (OWD), Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD) and Divemaster (DM) based on RSTC standards, and the European certification system according to CMAS guidelines (1,2,3 - star system).