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You'll probably get different answers. To me, any dive where you can't directly ascend to the surface, because of an overhead or a deco obligation, is technical.
To me techinal diving is any dive that exceeds 130' in depth and/or exceeds the no decompression limits on the recreational dive planner or requires that the diver have specialized training. Technical diving would be like deep diving, cavern and cave diving, any dive that has penetration (where you don't have a direct ascent to the surface), or diving that requires the use of mixed gases (like trimix).
Are traditional BC's okay for technical diving, or if I wanted to do tech diving in the future should I be looking at different BC's? (I'm getting ready to buy my first BC) I've signed up and will be taking a Deep Diving and Wreck diving specialty course because I'm really interested in those areas -- I don't want to finish those classes and regret spending $500 on a BC that no longer meets my needs.
I'm sure there is some tech diving that you can do in a traditional jacket style bc, but that's not what I use. I dive in a backplate with a harness made from a single piece of 2" webbing and a wing (which is like the bladder in the bc). I have one wing to use with a single tank (for my recreational diving) and a wing for my doubles (for my cave diving). If you do a search on the baord you will find a lot of info on bp/wings. I don't think that most BC's will work with doubles, but I'm not completely sure. A bp/wing set up will grow with your diving.
If you are new to diving, personally I don't think that you should rush into technical diving. Take your diving one step at a time and become proficient in the diving you currently do before you move on to the next, just don't go from cert, to cert, to cert. You'll end up with alot of certifications and not the skills to back them up. The water isn't going anywhere (hopefully) and there is nothing down deep or back in a cave system worth dieing for. But that's just my opinion.
I agree with you that I don't want to rush anything -- especially anything as serious as cave/deep diving. But if those are areas that I would like to pursue in the future then it would be nice to get a BC that would allow for that future growth without having to make another large investment. The BC that you use w/ the wing -- does that work well for the recreational diving that you do? And then can you purchase the wing w/ the double tank setup at a later time?
I hope that I'm not bothering you. This is an area that I have a lot of interest in and I would like to learn as much as I can.
Also, I might be moving down to the Orlando area -- what's the diving like down there?
Wendy once bubbled... To me techinal diving is any dive that exceeds 130' in depth and/or exceeds the no decompression limits on the recreational dive planner or requires that the diver have specialized training. Technical diving would be like deep diving, cavern and cave diving, any dive that has penetration (where you don't have a direct ascent to the surface), or diving that requires the use of mixed gases (like trimix).
I use my bp/wing for all my diving, whether I'm diving under a bridge in 10' of water or 1000' backin a cave system. That's what's so great with it.
The Orlando area doesn't really have any diving in itself, but great diving is all around. You are 1 -2 hours from the caves, 2 hours from west palm and some nice drift dives, 3 hours from ft. lauderdale (nice wrecks). Daytona isn't very far, like an hour. And you are an hour from the gulf (never been over there). What sort of work are you looking for?
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