ScubaEngineer web site and Dive Industry Technician Training

The web site together with ScubaSpareParts.com is an international support hub for certified Dive Technicians, cylinder inspectors and compressors repairers.

On the web site, the formally qualified Dive Technician will find the service manuals, spare parts and hard to find custom tools used by the professional scuba repairer.

Only certified technicians can download the technical data contained on the web site.

Clarification: A Certified dive technicians is one who has proof of having undergone recognised service & repair training.

Support Services

• ASSET approved Dive Industry Technician Course personnel who have FULL access to all data sheets, spare parts and custom tools for regulators, compressors and scuba cylinders.
• ASSET approved dive technicians have successfully completed the full 14 day course involving practical ‘hands-on’ service and repair of all the worlds major manufactures of SCUBA.
• Non-ASSET certified technicians normally have only completed a 1 day manufacturer or trade show seminar
• A technician certified to work on only one brand may not access any other manufacturers service information.

Dive Technician Trainer Information

The Dive Industry Technician Courses are taught by Stephen E Burton C.Eng., Stephen is a formally trained and highly experienced engineer and technical diver. He has first hand experience repairing hundreds of scuba regulators and of reviving broken compressors of all brands. Stephen has taught more than 500 dive technicians and plus more than a thousand scuba and technical diving students worldwide.

Before moving to the Far East, Stephen worked in engineering for 15 years supporting products from the worlds leading defense companies. He has lived in Thailand for more than 20 years.

Stephen’s personal interest is exploring deep shipwrecks throughout the Asia Pacific region is documented online at www.thaiwreckdiver.com . A chance encounter with extreme diver Mark Ellyatt in 2003 lead Stephen to develop the ‘The Combined Decompression Model’ CDM. The CDM is used to plan the deep self contained scuba dives to 300 meters and beyond.

EASYTEK ENGINEERING SERVICES CO LTD – an A.S.S.E.T., IDEST & SITA Approved Training Provider

The South East Asia Pacific Training Center

 

Easytek Engineering Services Co Ltd., together with STATS2000 in the United Kingdom have provided a unique service to Commercial Diving Companies, Military Diving Teams, Government Inspectors, Recreational Dive Centres, SCBA, ELSA, HEED Life Support Technicians, High Pressure Cylinder Inspectors, and other Dive Industry Professionals internationally for more than 20 years drawing on the wide experience of its principal staff. Principle capabilities include:

• Divers and other SCBA life support equipment maintenance – regulators, compressors, cylinders, rebreathers, hydrostatic test equipment design, NDT analysis
• Commercial diving, & Maritime consultancy. Dive incident investigation & expert witness testimony
• Custom Decompression methodology for 1,000ft Trimix diving.
• Approved engineering training. International recognised certification in Trimix Decompression diving, sunken vessel survey, underwater artifact & body recovery.
• Repair, servicing & testing traceable to National standards. Design, Manufacture and sales of custom tools, adapters and test equipment for Divers life support equipment servicing and other critical high pressure applications.

Easytek has the most modern divers life support equipment service center and mixed gas production system in Thailand. All mixed gases can be pumped to 350bar via in house Haskell booster pumps powered by twin Bauer Compressors feeding a 90,000Liter air bank. Easytek carries out hydrostatic tests in house to 650bar/10,000psi to US DOT standards, European EC, British BS and Thai standards supplemented by the very latest NDT eddy current testing to detect metallurgical failure aluminium alloy high pressure gas cylinders.

Easytek is in a state-of-the-art service facility located at the outskirts of Pattaya Thailand. The company’s former name was Samui Easytek Co Ltd.

The company provides support for all those using and servicing divers life support equipment.

Many of Easytek’s former technician students now run their own dive shops or are leading technical divers and scuba technicians.

Credits

The development of ScubaEngineeer.com is an on-going long term project that has benefited greatly from the assistance of the many experts. These dive industry experts have graciously contributed information for inclusion within these pages.

Particular thanks goes to Mr. C. Stewart Meinert , the author of the original ‘Dive Industry Technicians Handbook’ . Stewart’s diligence and persistence single handedly prepared the standard texts for these training courses. He is the driving force in Government liaison to improve Dive Equipment Repair Standards. By creating the DITC, Stewart has greatly improved the safety of scuba divers worldwide.

If there is any information, feature or product you would like to see included within this web-site please let us know.

Thank you – All at ScubaEngineer.com