New to technical diving

[sunkarm]

i had always been interested in knowing technical diving. is there any website where i can learn "intro to technical diving" ?

thx all.

 

[LavaSurfer]

First I would have to ask. What kind of technical diving?
By definition, technical diving is any diving outside of the scope of Recreational diving.
Cave, Deep, Mixed gasses, Wreck, decompression, Ice, Rebreather, Solo etc... all fall into and out of that definition

Also, A Web Site? Are you wanting to just learn about technical diving?
You cannot Learn to technical dive on a Web site any more than you can learn to drive a car from a book. But there are many great resources and books available to support your future technical diving learnings.

My Advice, figure out first what you want then see what is available to teach you.

Scooter

 

[battles2a5]

Although it may not be as effective as a website, you can actually DIVE with an Intro to Tech class

Short of that, I would browse the technical diving forums here, check out The Deco Stop, and there are plenty of books and manuals that can help you out. Do a little digging and you will find a wealth of resources.

 

[ppo2_diver]

TDI offers an Intro to Tech class. I'd also recommend a GUE Fundamentals of Better Diving class. Both will give you an idea of what to expect for advanced level diving.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Hopefully you mean a website to learn "about" technical diving. I would strongly caution against learning any form of diving from a website.

With that said, I'd spend alot of time searching and reading both here and on The Deco Stop (www.thedecostop.com). But again, this is to learn ABOUT technical diving. Actually learning technical diving requires proper training from a qualified technical instructor.

 

[TSandM]

Technical diving has a lot of aspects. There are individual, fundamental skills, like air-sharing, valve shutdowns, line running, no mask work and bottle work. There is the multi-tasking involved in managing buoyancy and trim while executing those skills, and the judgment involved in assessing a situation and deciding what the appropriate action is. There is also the matter of decompression, understanding the various approaches to it and planning the appropriate decompression and gas supplies for the proposed dive.

The majority of this stuff is not best learned from a website, or any other non-interactive learning strategy. However, there are two places where you can begin to acquire skills and knowledge, while awaiting formal training. One is with the fundamental skills. You can begin to work on your buoyancy control and your trim, and begin to learn propulsion techniques, with the help of a similarly interested buddy and some video information. I highly recommend the 5thD-X Intro to Tech DVD, which is VERY well produced and very useful.

You can also begin to educate yourself about decompression, about which a great deal is available on the net. On TDS, there is an excellent article entitled "The Shape of the Curve", by Steve Lewis, who is a technical instructor and an excellent writer. It's a good place to start. You can also find articles by Erik Baker and Ross Hemingway and I believe also by Bruce Wienke (I'd have to drag out my binder to figure out exactly what I have found and printed out over the last three years.) There are also some excellent books -- I particularly enjoyed Lippmann and Mitchell's Deeper Into Diving, which includes a fairly extensive review of a number of approaches to decompression modeling.

Anyway, that ought to get you started!

 

[Flightlead]

I strongly recommend asking the group which is the best agency to get a technical certification from.

 

[battles2a5]

I strongly recommend asking the group which is the best agency to get a technical certification from.

Ya, because that will be a constructive discussion

 

[ektess1]

Let the battle begin.

 

[cavediver08]

**Gets out bag of popcorn.**