Technical Diving

Do you love being in the water and want to see what really goes on underneath? Have you ever wanted to try technical diving? If you do, you should spend a day or two diving and having fun in the water. Technical diving provides a thrill that everyone should be able to experience at least once!

In any case, in order to become a technical diver, you have to undergo specialized training and have the correct equipment. There are numbers types of technical training organizations all over the world that train those who want to get into technical diving. A few of these are, IANTD, NAUI, TDI and PADI DSAT. Remember, before you can do any type of technical diving, you have to be properly trained and certified; this is a safety precaution that should not be overlooked. This ensures that you know what you are doing so that you can dive without putting yourself or others at risk. Once you have gotten your technical diving certification, you’re ready to go enjoy the water.

If you’re new to diving, you probably don’t know too much about technical diving and what it really is. Even though the two words “technical diving” has been around for centuries, it is only recently that they have been paired into a type of dive. For decades, people have been doing technical diving without even knowing it.

Technical dives take divers to new depths, literally! It is a much more advanced branch of recreational diving and with it you learn skills that set the technical diver apart from the traditional recreational diver. Your learn things such as advanced buoyancy control, how to trim out more efficiently, how to manage your breathing gas better. Examples of this type of diving would be closed circuit rebreather diving, cave diving, cavern diving, ice diver and wreck penetration diver just to name a few. If you’re looking for a clear definition of what technical diving is you probably won’t find one. Just know that it isn’t like your ordinary recreational dives that some enjoy.

In many cases with this type of diving, you will find a diver has two tanks, each with its own regulator. This is because technical divers can reach depths beyond 130 feet beneath the surface. They need the extra tank because they have to deal with decompression stops, which prevents him/her from going back to the surface of the water as quickly as a normal diver would be able to. The second tank acts as a backup and the diver has an increased supply of breathing gas for those deeper more extended dives.

You will usually find that divers who spend a lot of their time technical diving are generally in caves and also the interior of a shipwreck and they dive in both fresh and salt water. These divers dive where there is limited or no access to a surface or some sort of natural light.

Usually, those who are technically diving spend much more time in the water than those who scuba dive for recreation. If you are looking for a thrill in the water, try out technical diving. Though it is a little bit more complicated than your sport diving, you are sure to have fun!