Solo Tek

[Fritz01]

I'm not a tek diver but I had a question. I've seen articles on solo diving from Tek divers, but are they referring to solo dives or SOLO TEK dives? Lets just define penetration dives as Tek for instance.

 

[Colliam7]

I'm not a tek diver but I had a question. I've seen articles on solo diving from Tek divers, but are they referring to solo dives or SOLO TEK dives? Lets just define penetration dives as Tek for instance.

Without knowing which articles you are specifically referring to it is a bit of a challenge to answer your question. But, three thoughts:

1. There are those who say that every technical dive is, in essence, a solo dive. You should / must plan to be able to complete the dive entirely on your own.

2. There are those who say that every solo dive is a technical dive, even if it does not involve entering an overhead environment (physical or physiological).

3. In reality there are divers who regularly plan, and successfully execute, solo dives that take them into physical overhead environments, or which involve a decompression obligation (there may be other divers on the boat above, for example, but the solo technical diver descends, ascends, decompresses, etc alone.)

Does that answer your question, or does it miss what you were trying to get at?

 

[Fritz01]

Yes that answered my question, thank you!