About Blue Marlin Dive Tech



The leading technical dive school in Indonesia

Passion, a commitment to quality and safety, and an emphasis on our diving family have kept Blue Marlin Dive at the forefront of the Indonesian diving industry for over 30 years.

“IF RECREATIONAL DIVING ISN’T ENOUGH, CHALLENGE YOURSELF AND GO DEEPER AT BLUE MARLIN DIVE TECH”



Welcome to Blue Marlin Dive Tech:

Blue Marlin Dive Tech is Located East of Bali and off the North West corner of Lombok. The main headquarters for the operations is based on Gili Trawangan. Other shops are based on Gili Meno, Gili Air, Komodo, Senggigi, and with our latest dive shop opened in Lombok Kuta.

This first Technical IDC in December 2013 saw Blue Marlin Dive continue as the leading technical dive school in Indonesia, as pioneered since 1992 by Blue Marlin founder and owner, and accomplished TDI Instructor Trainer, Simon Liddiard. Five candidates participated in total, four of whom are already employed in the diving industry here with Simon’s diving companies. Since then we have had regular TDI Instructor courses with a 100% success rate and all candidates moving on to full time employment.

Blue Marlin Dive Tech is affiliated with Technical Diving International (TDI). We offer the full range of Nitrox, Mixed Gas and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) courses as well as Technical Instructor courses to all levels to increase your knowledge and further your career.

We are a division of Blue Marlin Dive, which is dedicated to providing quality technical diver training, daily technical dive charters, and technical expeditions to all corners of Indonesia.

Our aim is not only to provide a conducive environment for training, but a facility where qualified technical divers can actually use their skills to dive the many wrecks and deep walls that the Gili islands and Indonesia have to offer. We feel a gap exists in the dive industry because many places offer technical diver training to divers, but few offer daily guided technical dives and technical live aboard expeditions.

WE FILL THIS GAP IN THE INDUSTRY.

Meet the team



Simon Liddiard

IANTD Advanced Trimix instructor, TDI Trimix Instructor Trainer, TDI advanced wreck instructor, CCR Trimix Cave diver, a PADI course Director and DSAT Trimix Instructor Trainer. Specialist JJ-CCR advanced Trimix Instructor.

Dive Experience, Blue Marlin Dive resort owner for 32 years with over 10,000 dives. 300 + dives deeper than 100 m, 5,000+ diver certifications.

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Chris Gamlin

Chris Gamlin is a Marine Biologist from the UK who’s passion for technical diving originated from the challenges of planning and executing more complex dives and getting to explore areas that are inaccessible to most. He is also a keen underwater photographer and is looking to expand his work deeper to showcase the life that inhabits these lesser seen environments

Chris is an Advanced Trimix diver both on open circuit and closed circuit. He joined us is 2022 after spending time teaching technical diving in both the UK and Greece. Here at Blue Marlin Dive Tech he teaches TDI open circuit courses in both backmount and sidemount configurations. Chris can also show you our best tech sites around the Gili Islands guiding you on dives of depths down to 100m.

Our Achievements

Blue Marlin Dive Tech was established in 1992 by our owner Simon Liddiard and has been a pioneer of technical diving both Open Circuit and Closed Circuit in Indonesia ever since. In 2008 Blue Marlin Dive Tech has achieved the first award from TDI for being the highest certifying technical dive center in Indonesia and has since received this award from TDI on a yearly basis.

We are also proud to be exploring new dive sites on a regular basis and expanding our dive site range whenever we have time in between courses and technical dives.