Recreational divers, post your rig here, let's share good and bad ideas

[lexvil]

I've been holding off on starting a thread about a truely spectacular (and extremely public) pee valve malfunction - trust me when I say you really don't want me to post the details on this site....

Now - back to whatever this thread has become

I don’t know, I’m thinking such discussion could elevate this one.

 

[iliketopetsharks]

Isn't this a contradiction??

I think it's called "normalization of deviance"

 

[LI-er]

You wrote before Deco obligation was not recreational diving lol I replied that I did.
What changed your mind?

I'm not tech certified and the majority of my dives do not exceed NDLs and when they do it's only a short obligation, most or all of which is satisfied before I even hit the required 10' stop.

I don't consider that to be tech diving. More like "aggressive rec diving".

Aggregreational diving with a stony bottle.

 

[flymolo]

There is no SCUBA police other than the laws of Physics.

I really like this quote

 

[lexvil]

I'm not tech certified and the majority of my dives do not exceed NDLs and when they do it's only a short obligation, most or all of which is satisfied before I even hit the required 10' stop.

I don't consider that to be tech diving. More like "aggressive rec diving".

Aggregreational diving with a stony bottle.

We used to call it “diving”

 

[Soloist]

I'm not tech certified and the majority of my dives do not exceed NDLs and when they do it's only a short obligation, most or all of which is satisfied before I even hit the required 10' stop.

I don't consider that to be tech diving. More like "aggressive rec diving".

Aggregreational diving with a stony bottle.

Evidently what you are saying sounds like Greek to the overwhelming majority. How long did you say you have been living in Greece?

 

[iliketopetsharks]

I don't consider that to be tech diving. More like "aggressive rec diving".

Aggregreational diving with a stony bottle

That's called "schmucknical diving"

 

[Blackcrusader]

Not wading into the rig discussion, but this

.. makes no sense to us. If you are in deco, is it not per definition a technical dive that requires careful planning?

No. BSAC are deco trained from what padi wouls call AOW. Was called sports diving.

A lof of light back gas deco dives are not always planned. Some are. But they are not technical in nature.

 

[Blackcrusader]

On the decompression:
You are technically correct, any dive plan that has required decompression stops (as opposed to safety stops) is a technical dive.

So because BSAC trains divers in deco diving they are all technical divers? I've been trained in deco and doing deco dives since 1986. I would not class myself as a technical diver.

 

[USdiver1]

So because BSAC trains divers in deco diving they are all technical divers? I've been trained in deco and doing deco dives since 1986. I would not class myself as a technical diver.

I think the definition of what is a technical dive, meaning any planned dive that would contain at least one staged decompression stop, makes you a technical diver, even though you may not dive tri-mix, etc.