Technical diving is a specialty type of diving that goes above and beyond recreational diving. This type of diving is typically done for non-professional use and presents greater risks. These include higher risks of serious injury or death. Listed below are some tips to stay safe when you start tech diving. Continue reading to find out more. We'll also talk about closed-circuit equipment and TecRec. You'll be ready for anything once you've finished reading it.
TecRec
You may be interested in a TecRec course if you're already certified and would like to learn more. If you complete the Discover Tec, this course will teach you basic tec diving in confined waters. The training will be comprehensive and you will have the opportunity to learn some of the techniques and gear required to dive in TEC settings.
PADI Tec 40
For those divers who want to expand their horizons to deeper dives, the PADI Tec 40 course is the next logical step. This course introduces divers to advanced techniques for augmented air and nitrogen, allows for higher mixed gas ratios, and includes enriched air and decompression diving on EANX 50. Divers will have the opportunity to learn how to use decompression technology. This software is designed for safe diving to depths of 40 meters or greater without exposing themselves to decompression sickness.
Cave diving
Tech divers are able to dive into caves using open-circuit scuba. This is a unique adventure that pushes horizontal scuba's limits. These divers can travel thousands of feet into caves using open-circuit scuba, which has a separate regulator for each stage. During exploration, they only use one third of the gas in each tank. When they leave a cave, they take the used cylinder with them and secure it for later use. They also use a single main cylinder, which requires two independent regulators. A diver can go up to half a mile into a cave using four stages.
Closed-circuit equipment
Michael Menduno created the term "technical divers" in 1991. It is a collection of different practices and equipment combinations that expand human diving's range. At first, technical diving used open circuit configurations. These were chosen for reliability, availability, and flexibility. Open-circuit equipment is becoming increasingly popular, and is the preferred choice for many scuba divers.
Being flexible to new situations
Tech diving requires you to be familiar with gradient factors and decompression theory. Many teams still use the same decompression algorithm. But, a growing portion of tech professionals are switching to dual-phase models. The key is to understand the parameters that your chosen model assumes when traveling between waypoints and what to change if a contingency arises. Adapting to new situations while tech diving is essential for safety.
Gear configuration differences
Gear configurations are important, regardless of whether you're diving recreationally or for a career in technical diving. For one, technical divers need more equipment to solve problems at depth. These divers typically use multiple cylinders of gas, regulators, cutting tools, and SMBs. These equipment is very similar to what recreational divers use, but they are designed for different purposes.