jadairiii
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Are you just going to rewrite the book on what constitutes a "tech" dive?
No, I'm not. But your dive could have turned into a "tech dive" very quickly and you and your buddy were completely ill prepared to deal with it.
Take a dive at 60', you and your buddy run into an issue as your are approaching the end of the dive, takes a few minutes to address, you end up having to donate your octo and you all surface. No problem really, or at least it shouldn't be, you have direct access to the surface and even with a safety stop, you're on the surface in under 5 minutes.
Now your dive to 126', you have a problem at the end of your dive at that depth, you need a few minutes to address it, and....you and your buddy are in deco, no longer a "direct access" to the surface. Worse, did you calculate your SAC rates for that dive, could you have brought you and your buddy to the surface, with a minimal deco obligation on just one of your tanks? With only 980 psi left in your tanks, probably not.
By any definition a dive to 126' with deco is a technical dive. As you go deeper, your recreational dive may turn into a technical dive and even a small pony bottle may not help, especially if everyone's SAC rate is elevated due to stress/task loading.