I wish I could get in the water. My wife hasn't really dove since our Bonaire trip in 2019 so Sunday she's doing a quick refresher in the pool with a friend, Then in 2 weeks we're heading to Cozumel.
Weekend Update: Where's everyone diving?
Where are you diving this weekend? Technical or Recreational? Staying on Lemmy chatting about diving?
Maybe we can get Woody Harrelson, he can talk about Rampart.
New Community - Technical Diving
A community for all things discussion of Technical Scuba Diving
Technical Diving is a community to discuss all things Technical Scuba Diving.
Rebreather Diving, Cave Diving, Decompression Diving, Advanced Wreck
https://lemmy.world/c/technicaldiving
I got certified in 2000 and made it up to Advanced Open Water by 2001. I did the typical recreational diving of only a few dives here and there every year until 2008. I then got out of the hobby. In 2018 I took my wife on a cruise and used that as an opportunity to get her certified and I took a refresher. After that cruise I told her I wanted to dive more and start taking the hobby seriously.
I always enjoy progressing in experience, knowledge and skill so I went up the SSI chain to Master Scuba Diver where I hit the end of recreational diving. I told my wife now I needed to go the professional route or the technical route if I wanted to keep going gaining new experiences. SSI professional I had no desire to do. I ended up taking a Intro to Cave certification from a great shop in North FL in August 2022 where I've been doing a bit of diving and putting in some practice.
My next step is Advanced Nitrox/Deco Procedures and Full Cave.
When did you start getting into technical diving?
I realize that this community is new and not many people are here. But thought that technical diving needed it's own community due to the advanced nature of the diving. Question and answers need the perspective from those with similar experiences.
I figured I'd kick off the community discussion with the question, When did you getting into technical diving? What made you want to take the jump?
Is this a tech dive trip or a recreational dive trip? If it was recreational I prefer to pack light. 1 mask, 1 primary light, 1 computer, etc... If my mask breaks I'll stop by and buy one from the many shops.
To me it's not worth the Hassle to bring a ton of spare/redundant equipment.
Technical diving trip... You're gonna need more gear 😉
Haha yeah made the switch. I can't stand the Reddit App and as of the end of the month my 3rd party will be gone. Figured it's a perfect opportunity to try something else out.