TEKDiveUSA
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How do you stay inspired as a technical diver? What makes you want to learn/explore/research/dive something new?
How do you stay inspired as a technical diver?
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PfcAJ
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That’s a cool topic.
For me it’s this desire to go where people don’t go often or have never been. I get burned out quick with the more touristy dives.
For me it’s this desire to go where people don’t go often or have never been. I get burned out quick with the more touristy dives.
Discovery - contributing something positive to science, understanding, and general knowledge base.
Learning - enhancing my current skill, learning a new skill (I'm going to learn underwater photogrammetry this year)
Visual - seeing/creating imagery of talented/highly skilled people in places that not many people go.
Learning - enhancing my current skill, learning a new skill (I'm going to learn underwater photogrammetry this year)
Visual - seeing/creating imagery of talented/highly skilled people in places that not many people go.
Actually, over a long career I think it is a really good question.
I have been diving since I was 13, and have reinvented myself as a diver multiple times (eg free diving, spearfishing, underwater hockey, research, medicine, military, technical, rebreathers, photography). But I do think it is relatively easy to get stuck in a rut and a thematic tilt at inspiring with new ideas for directions in a technical diving career is a pretty good one.
I will be there, and look forward to meeting many of you. I will be speaking on hypoxia as a "silent killer" and Nick Gant and I will talk about why we don't think lounge-room / couch hypoxic experiences are a good idea. I will be giving a second presentation; probably on the recent expert consensus on management of DCI in the field. David Doolette will be presenting on another topic to come out of that consensus; in water recompression. We have just submitted a comprehensive review article on the relevant issues, and he will be summarizing that. Very topical stuff for technical divers.
Simon M
I have been diving since I was 13, and have reinvented myself as a diver multiple times (eg free diving, spearfishing, underwater hockey, research, medicine, military, technical, rebreathers, photography). But I do think it is relatively easy to get stuck in a rut and a thematic tilt at inspiring with new ideas for directions in a technical diving career is a pretty good one.
I will be there, and look forward to meeting many of you. I will be speaking on hypoxia as a "silent killer" and Nick Gant and I will talk about why we don't think lounge-room / couch hypoxic experiences are a good idea. I will be giving a second presentation; probably on the recent expert consensus on management of DCI in the field. David Doolette will be presenting on another topic to come out of that consensus; in water recompression. We have just submitted a comprehensive review article on the relevant issues, and he will be summarizing that. Very topical stuff for technical divers.
Simon M
For me it is all about what I will see at deeper depths. Simple as that.
100days-a-year
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New stuff to see,new areas to search.Not to be discounted is the joy of sharing the experiences with friends and family.
I spend a part of my days off researching wrecks and new aeas,this keeps me immersed.
I spend a part of my days off researching wrecks and new aeas,this keeps me immersed.
CCR training really revitalized my interest in diving. I had been tech trained on OC, but I just find every aspect of rebreather diving to be fascinating. I love reading about it and talking about it almost as much as I love diving it.
Tassi Devil Diver
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The opportunity to dive places no one has ever dived or seen before, discovering new species and documenting what I find along the way with photos and video.
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