What is tec diving?

[S. starfish]

I think I've figured it out.

Technical diving is diving that makes your nuts bigger than everyone else's.

Sorry women, you cannot be technical divers.

 

[Blackwood]

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

I think his definition, aka any dive during which you can't make a direct ascent at any time (i.e. overhead, virtual or otherwise) is technical, is clear and concise.

Yours is clear and concise too, but there are too many exceptions. Besides, the removal and replacement of a regulator is covered in basic diving curriculum. That the replaced regulator may deliver a different gas doesn't change the scenario.

Personally, I tend to disagree with a paradigm that defines a dive based on its planned end. What I do in the last 20, or 70, or xxx feet of a dive doesn't make the dive technical. It's where I go during the bottom portion of the dive, and/or for how long I remain at the bottom portion of the dive, that makes it technical.

 

[rollerboi]

Intentionally going past rec limits or training carries with it a very serious implication - it implies that the diver knows what they're doing, and that they're trained/capable enough to plan responsibly for the dive.

Calling a 160-ft silty cavern a recreational dive implies that the person doing so doesn't quite know what they're doing. Doing an overhead dive outside of training does not make one a tech diver - it makes them somewhat.. well, apply your own label here, but make sure it's somewhat derogatory. .

Congrats to those who survive the Darwinian test, but there'll be no Tech card waiting for them with any agency that I know of.

Edit: I also agree with Jeff's broad, simple definition. Any dive where an immediate, no-decompression ascent to the surface cannot be done (ie., a "ceiling"), becomes a technical dive requiring further training and experience.

 

[highflowdiver]

I think his definition, aka any dive during which you can't make a direct ascent at any time (i.e. overhead, virtual or otherwise) is technical, is clear and concise.

Yours is clear and concise too, but there are too many exceptions. Besides, the removal and replacement of a regulator is covered in basic diving curriculum. That the replaced regulator may deliver a different gas doesn't change the scenario.

Personally, I tend to disagree with a paradigm that defines a dive based on its planned end. What I do in the last 20, or 70, or xxx feet of a dive doesn't make the dive technical. It's what I do during the bottom portion of the dive, or where I go during the bottom portion of the dive, that makes it technical.

I believe that this is a definition that doesn't need to be established - there is no benefit to doing so.

How could not defining a word that is used so much in what we do not
be positive? All of those 7 dive divers going through the ambulance
at 20 ft. are not doing a technical dive IMHO.
Kal

 

[JeffG]

All of those 7 dive divers going through the ambulance
at 20 ft. are not doing a technical dive IMHO.
Kal

Who said they were doing a technical dive?

 

[Blackwood]

How could not defining a word that is used so much in what we do not
be positive? All of those 7 dive divers going through the ambulance
at 20 ft. are not doing a technical dive IMHO.
Kal

What I meant was that defining a dive as technical or not won't change how we approach it.

But I removed that from my post. You're too quick

I'm not familiar with the ambulance. Is it within the daylight zone?

 

[highflowdiver]

I think his definition, aka any dive during which you can't make a direct ascent at any time (i.e. overhead, virtual or otherwise) is technical, is clear and concise.

Yours is clear and concise too, but there are too many exceptions. Besides, the removal and replacement of a regulator is covered in basic diving curriculum. That the replaced regulator may deliver a different gas doesn't change the scenario.

Personally, I tend to disagree with a paradigm that defines a dive based on its planned end. What I do in the last 20, or 70, or xxx feet of a dive doesn't make the dive technical. It's where I go during the bottom portion of the dive, and/or for how long I remain at the bottom portion of the dive, that makes it technical.

Surely you are aware of the risks of breathing
O2 or any gas below it's MOD.
Kal

 

[highflowdiver]

Who said they were doing a technical dive?

Did your definition not say overhead environment is technical?
Kal

 

[JeffG]

I'm not familiar with the ambulance. Is it within the daylight zone?

How big is a station wagon from end to end?

 

[JeffG]

Did your definition not say overhead environment is technical?
Kal

Reading comprehension isn't your gig is it?

BTW..Since you would be able to see the exit, it would be a cavern dive. Which is non-technical.