What is tec diving?

[JeffG]

I'm still confused, WHY does the definition matter?

Because with one word you can describe a different style/type of diving. This is especially useful when talking to non-divers. The problem here is the debate about where the line is drawn.

Quite frankly..its much ado about nothing.

 

[JeffG]

A cavern dive is non-technical. What if it required you
to go deep and into deco and you had to take
deco gases and do switches while underwater?
Kal

Gee...what do you think stud?

Go back to my definition...maybe you will be able to figure it out.

 

[highflowdiver]

I'm still confused, WHY does the definition matter? I'm perfectly OK being called a recreational cave diver. Is it so those of us who get two different gas mixes can feel superior to others on the forum and at the fill stations? Ginnie was first explored on 21%, and deco'ed out on air, you're crazy if you think we're doing more "technical" dives than those guys were back then.

Feelings of superiority has nothing to do with it. Diving is
an ever evolving sport. We use deco for it's advantages.
Diving with deco gas has killed many divers better than
most of us will ever be. Back in the old days those explorers
didn't have these options but they had other things to
concern them. They were technical too. The word technical
should be defined, and redefined as the sport evolves.
Kal

 

[ucfdiver]

A cavern dive is non-technical. What if it required you
to go deep and into deco and you had to take
deco gases and do switches while underwater?
Kal

So Buford (160+ft deep silty cavern) is a rec dive? Seems funny, because someone with just a full cave card isn't technically qualified to dive it.

 

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[highflowdiver]

Gee...what do you think stud?

Go back to my definition...maybe you will be able to figure it out.

I think it is tech, I was going by what you had just written. What you
had just written said Cavern is a non-tech dive. Too convoluted. Throw
out anything that has to do with overhead. Overhead is not required to
become tech. If you say multiple bottles(gases) to finish the dive then you
automatically cover virtual overhead and staging in that one little series
of words. Nice and tidy. Nothing to get confused on.
Kal

 

[JeffG]

I think it is tech, I was going by what you had just written. What you
had just written said Cavern is a non-tech dive. Too convoluted. Throw
out anything that has to do with overhead. Overhead is not required to
become tech. If you say multiple bottles(gases) to finish the dive then you
automatically cover virtual overhead and staging in that one little series
of words. Nice and tidy. Nothing to get confused on.
Kal

Wow..

 

[Tomeck]

For me, the difference between tec and rec is not clear.

 

[highflowdiver]

So Buford (160+ft deep silty cavern) is a rec dive? Seems funny, because someone with just a full cave card isn't technically qualified to dive it.

Yes, 160 ft is 30 ft. deeper than a full cave's limits. Busting
a limitation does not make it a tech dive.
Kal

 

[highflowdiver]

For me, the difference between tec and rec is not clear.

Yes, Jeff G has a definition for it and I would submit
it is a bit convoluted and a much better way to word
it is what I have mentioned. It is clear, concise, and
to the point as any I have seen.
Kal