With any sport, hobby, or job for that matter,? you do it long enough and the particular activity becomes, ehhh?a little less than exciting.? Scuba diving can fall into this category.? Thankfully, our? scuba? certifying agencies offer plenty of specialty courses to keep most diver?s passion strong.? But recently the more adventurous? divers have been wanting new challenges and experiences.? Enter technical diving.
Spearfishing and technical diving are the hottest trends in scuba right now.? These two specialties show the demand for more adventurous dive activities and both are now very accessible to recreational divers.? Until recently the words ?Technical Diving? would conjure up thoughts of commercial divers, military divers or public safety divers.? Like recreational diving, technical diving is? ?sport? diving; it is diving done for fun.
So what exactly is Technical diving?? PADI defines technical diving as ?diving other than conventional commercial or recreational diving that takes divers beyond recreational diving limits. It is further defined as an activity that includes one or more of the following: diving beyond 40 meters/130 feet, required stage decompression, diving in an overhead environment beyond 130 linear feet from the surface, accelerated stage decompression and/or the use of multiple gas mixtures in a single dive.?
Within the past few years, the largest certifying agency, PADI has jumped on the tec diving train.? It now offers numerous classes involving some level of tec diving.? Starting with an ?intro to tec? which allows divers to get familiar with what tec diving entails, including the equipment needed in tec diving.? The student than can enroll in the next tec level, and so on and so on.? The multiple levels of training allows students to control how far they take their tec training.
You may ask yourself why would I want to tec dive?? To discuss this is the same as discussing why people climb mountains, why people go white-water rafting and why there is an insatiable desire by some people to go into space.? Plus there is a lot of cool stuff in deep waters, and diving on a rebreather can extend your bottom time by HOURS, since side mount tanks allow you to go where back mount won?t and because it?s a new cool diving challenge.? It is also safer, easier and more affordable than its ever been.
The fact remains, there is a large segment of the diving population that now craves deeper diving.? There are wrecks down there!!!?.It should be sufficient reason to dive deeper simply ?because it?s there.?
Hey, it was a good enough reason for George Leigh Mallory and Sir Edmund Hillary!
Source: http://fishmonster.com/reports/dive-reports/looking-for-a-new-diving-challenge/
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