Random thoughts for today:
I was reading through Dive Training yesterday (don't ask why...). Anyway, I am seeing more and more pictures in it of divers wearing a "Tech" setup. Almost always this is of a diver with like four different computers on his wrist, various unidentified danglies hanging from everywhere, and some brightly colored hose hanging out almost three feet from the diver.
I can never figure out the setup any of these guys are using, and then I started to ask myself: did they use these photos for the sole reason that they look complicated? Would a Hog. setup look too simple for these magazines who are mostly catering to recreational divers? Are they trying to sell Technical diving as this chaotic rig that's so convoluted they can't understand it? I guess this is the way most recreational divers think about Tech divers.
Also, does anyone else have an issue with how often these recreational magazines show divers with doubles etc? There just seems to be something wrong with a magazine that's teaching divers how to do a giant stride to (in the same pages) show divers in doubles deco-ing on an anchor line.
Tom
I was reading through Dive Training yesterday (don't ask why...). Anyway, I am seeing more and more pictures in it of divers wearing a "Tech" setup. Almost always this is of a diver with like four different computers on his wrist, various unidentified danglies hanging from everywhere, and some brightly colored hose hanging out almost three feet from the diver.
I can never figure out the setup any of these guys are using, and then I started to ask myself: did they use these photos for the sole reason that they look complicated? Would a Hog. setup look too simple for these magazines who are mostly catering to recreational divers? Are they trying to sell Technical diving as this chaotic rig that's so convoluted they can't understand it? I guess this is the way most recreational divers think about Tech divers.
Also, does anyone else have an issue with how often these recreational magazines show divers with doubles etc? There just seems to be something wrong with a magazine that's teaching divers how to do a giant stride to (in the same pages) show divers in doubles deco-ing on an anchor line.
Tom