What KIND of technical diving?

[liuk3]

Sorry about the limited options, Ken. I really was mostly curious about whether most of the people in here were primarily cave divers, or primarily deep wreck or other deep open water divers. I didn't much care what kind of gear they used when they were doing it.

I had the feeling there were more cavers than wreckers, and so far that seems to be true.

It seems like that you are more interested in "Cave" versus "Other"? I do love the wrecks, but I'll also go deeper to explore different reefs as well. Also, what about other overhead environments such as ice diving? Would this also be considered technical diving?

I would think the "Other" category would be more prevalent than "Cave" merely because most people are not geographically situated in close proximity to a cave system. That's probably been the biggest obstacle for me to justifying the training to date rather then pursuing deeper training.

 

[TSandM]

I did edit the poll to add wrecks to open water tech.

I guess what's coming out is here my own peculiar, skewed sense of the universe. I have a very hard time thinking of myself as a technical diver, just because I dive in caves. (I have a hard time thinking of myself as a technical diver, because I do a few trimix dives with a little staged decompression, too, but that's another story.) I knew a lot of the other folks back here were also cave divers, but I wondered how many did what I think of as real "technical diving", that being something that doesn't involve swimming into holes in the ground.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Very few of my dives are non-deco. In fact, most of my personal dives last 2-2.5 hours in the 90-100 foot depth range with 25-45 minutes of decompression. And those are the shallow dives. I also do trimix dives in caves deeper than 200 feet. Are these not "technical" since they only involve going into a hole in the ground?

 

[gitterdun]

I do both cave and tech. I do way more tech dives (so far), but I think that's due to logistics.

 

[Blackwood]

I screwed up having not really paid close attention to the poll questions and answered: Both, primarily open water tech/wreck dive. I do not have a cave cert.

 

[LiteHedded]

I screwed up having not really paid close attention to the poll questions and answered: Both, primarily open water tech/wreck dive. I do not have a cave cert.

we'll have to fix that. you should come down to fl

 

[Blackwood]

we'll have to fix that. you should come down to fl

That looks to be in the cards. I was thinking of doing it in Mexico, but am not really in the mood to dodge bullets on deco.

 

[LiteHedded]

do it in FL
it'll put hair on ur chest

 

[Diver0001]

For me it's wrecks.

Cave diving is the only thing my wife ever asked me not to do I tried explaining to her that in some ways I find wreck diving equally dangerous but she replied, "but if you die in a wreck they'll know where to look".

o...k....

In any event it's no big deal. There's absoutely nothing in a cave that could motivate me to be bothered. I'm curious about the training but that's about the extent of my interest in cave diving.

R..

 

[TSandM]

Rob, have you watched THIS?

Rob N, I can't explain why somebody 300 feet from the surface, covered in bottles, clutching a scooter, strikes me as more "technical" than somebody a mile from the surface, covered in bottles and holding a scooter does. I'm female; I'm allowed to be irrational, right?