Are you a recreational, rectech or technical diver.

[john1bl]

I just think it is a cross of categories that don't go together. One is why and the other is a level of training.

why do the dive.. recreational, commercial, military
Level of training required.. Non tech, tech.

Tech is also a unberlla term for Cave,wreck and deep diving. Non tech really don't have a name so we just call it rec diving.

 

[dmoore19]

I am a vacation diveer for now. I like warm clear water. I like looking a fish and am learning photography underwater. I have no desire for cave, penetration wreck diving or any deco dives. I (after another 20 or so dives) intend to take the AOW course and possibly nitrox. I really think +/-100 ft is as deep as I want to go and not for long. 60 ft is deep enough I would like to be able to comfortably go to 100' but only for that special occasion when I see something that requires me to go that deep breifly. I love the water, always have. I want to someday live where I can dive daily if I want. I appreciate the life I can watch on a reef. I don't need any thrills or completiton of going deeper, I am older and over the need for the adrenoline rush. I just like the weightless feeling and the idea that I am going somewhere that most people have never or will never go.

 

[Underwater Ogre]

$$ = gear and training...waiting for that windfall. Then I will go from "a diver" as Walter said to
Deepworker

I guess you would call that "technical"

U/O

 

[diverrex]

I'm purely recreational and figure that's what I'll always be. Though I do try to keep learning, and have thought of someday taking Advanced Nitrox, Deco Procedures and Extended Range to go deeper than 130. And I've done 4 cenote dives, thought they were lots of fun and would like to do more, but cave diving definitely seems out for me.

 

[Diver0001]

Just exactly what is the difference? Better yet, how do you perceive the differences?

I’m all about having a great time and enjoying diving and sharing that same joy with others.

I just dive. My gear is my gear. My training and experience gives me some possiblities that not all divers have but like you I'm all about having a great time and enjoying diving and sharing that with others.....

If you ask me, all the chest thumping Tarzan-talk from divers who think they're fabulous just makes me shake my head. People (especially men) have a need to make a competition out of the dumbest things.... Pass thanks.

R..

 

[Thalassamania]

Scientific, with a rare busman's holiday as a recreational diver, infrequent technical diving just for fun.

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

People (especially men) have a need to make a competition out of the dumbest things.... Pass thanks.

need may be why some call diving a sport?

 

[rongoodman]

Recreational, heading towards tech. Looking forward to Cavern/Intro to Cave in May, wrecks in Lake Ontario in June.

 

[Sas]

need may be why some call diving a sport?

No.

noun
1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, esp. in the out of doors.
3. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
4. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
5. mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
6. an object of derision; laughingstock.
7. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
8. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
9. a sportsman.
10. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
11. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
12. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
13. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
14. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.

Please see bolded definition as to why people call diving a sport.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I don't do pigeon holes or Labels... I like to get wet and play with the fishies