100days-a-year
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Well said.
What do Commercial Divers think of Recreational Tech Divers?
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divekyra
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As someone who progressed from recreational to tech to commercial diving, all from a love of being and working underwater, my personal (and thus, not necessarily right) opinion is that all three are different fields.
As a dive instructor I sometimes dive mastered boat trips and had commercial divers diving for fun.. they were not the best recreational divers. Being used to being in an upright position and having a constant air supply they had problems with buoyancy, and used up air rather quickly and often damaged a lot of the coral because of a need to be standing on something... now this was not ALWAYS so, so don't think I am saying a blanket statement. I also knew tech divers who tried commercial diving and found it was not their world.
And there are many of us who probably should have gills and just love being underwtater no matter what we are doing or what the vis. I have met many.
I agree with many postings here, they are different worlds, different requirements etc. And I hate it when one thinks they are better than another. Commercial divers may think techies are dorks, I think they must love it because they don't get paid, and many commercial divers won't get wet unless there is $ involved.
The main connection should be, as DeepSeaDan says: safety. How can we learn and help each other. There are some things that are just not meant to be done without a compressor and hoses and a chamber nearby, no matter how many tanks you have with you. And some things you can't do with an umbilical attached to you.
But for a commercial diver to automatically think he/she can plan a safe tech dive (cave for ex.) or a scuba diver to think he/she can do the job of a commercial diver with a couple of tanks... that's just playing with your life.
As a dive instructor I sometimes dive mastered boat trips and had commercial divers diving for fun.. they were not the best recreational divers. Being used to being in an upright position and having a constant air supply they had problems with buoyancy, and used up air rather quickly and often damaged a lot of the coral because of a need to be standing on something... now this was not ALWAYS so, so don't think I am saying a blanket statement. I also knew tech divers who tried commercial diving and found it was not their world.
And there are many of us who probably should have gills and just love being underwtater no matter what we are doing or what the vis. I have met many.
I agree with many postings here, they are different worlds, different requirements etc. And I hate it when one thinks they are better than another. Commercial divers may think techies are dorks, I think they must love it because they don't get paid, and many commercial divers won't get wet unless there is $ involved.
The main connection should be, as DeepSeaDan says: safety. How can we learn and help each other. There are some things that are just not meant to be done without a compressor and hoses and a chamber nearby, no matter how many tanks you have with you. And some things you can't do with an umbilical attached to you.
But for a commercial diver to automatically think he/she can plan a safe tech dive (cave for ex.) or a scuba diver to think he/she can do the job of a commercial diver with a couple of tanks... that's just playing with your life.
Very well said, DeepSeaDan. I think commercial diving vs. tecreational diving are apples and oranges. I must admit, though, that after participating in the salvage of a 40,000 lb aircraft I have a great deal of respect for those who make thier living underwater 
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David_57
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How about diving air instead of a mix to save money, narced can easily = confused and lead to panic, especially a dark narc.
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