Review: PADI Tec Xplorer Days

San Diego CA Examiner: Review: PADI Tec Xplorer Days
PADI [Professional Association of Diving Instructors] concluded a successful Tec Xplorer Days event at their headquarters in Rancho Santa Margarita yesterday, which featured numerous re-breather and dive gear manufacturers, as well as featured speakers on various subjects, which allowed invited dive professionals to listen to talks and then go out to the pool to sample the dive equipment.



Scheduled talks from guest speakers, included discussions on sidemount, rebreather technologies, what new tec courses PADI will have available, actual recounts of extreme tec expeditions and various first person accounts as well as opportunity to dive with the latest technical diving equipment in the on site pool, ranging from the latest technical diving computers to closed circuit rebreathers.

I had the opporunity to try out two rebreathers from VR Technologies and rEvo, respectively. Closed-circut technology is very different from open-ciruit SCUBA and requires specialized knowledge and training to use. PADI plans to offer courses in both Recreational and Technical diving appplications with rebreathers later this year.

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Speakers included: Dr. Drew Richardson, Karl Shreeves, Jeff Loflin, Dan Orr, President of Diver Alert Network and Luke Inman of 'Adopt a Shark.'

Participating Manufacturers included:


Analox Sensor Technology
Apeks & Suunto
DUI
Fourth Element
Hollis Gear
IST Sports
Liquivision
OMS/Big Blue/UEMIS
Poseidon
rEvo
ScubaPro
Silent Diving
Titan Dive Gear
TUSA
VR Technology

Door prized and raffles were held throughout the day and a surprisingly tasty lunch was provided.