My journey into tech
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I've been diving for a while, recreational diver, and took my first tech class earlier this year - TDI Advanced Wreck. I thoroughly enjoyed the class. Buoyancy, trim and propulsion are all good, but really apply whether you're a good recreational diver or a serious tech diver. The biggest eye opener for me, and skill I came into the class totally unprepared for, was dive planning. Figuring NDL times are easy and taught in every OW class. Lots of recreational dives are drop down, swim around, blow bubbles, until getting cold / bored / tired / hungry, running low on breathing gas, or dive computer saying it's time to go up. Proper tech diving involves a lot more planning than that, as far as how much gas am I going to need and will I have enough, especially as dives push beyond the boundary past recreational dives. In retrospect, I wish I practiced more proactively planning my dives where possible, to the point where I could accurately and consistently predict how much gas I would use and how much I would surface with, and actually have my dive profile closely match my plan.
One of the guys in my class dived sidemount, the instructor, assistants and rest of the students, including me, dived back mounted doubles. It was my first time in doubles and I was a complete spaz out of the water the first day. Unless the wrecks you want to penetrate are resting on their sides, backmounted doubles is a more effective way to move about inside a wreck, because they work better with the way ships are built for people to move through them before they become wrecks
One of the guys in my class dived sidemount, the instructor, assistants and rest of the students, including me, dived back mounted doubles. It was my first time in doubles and I was a complete spaz out of the water the first day. Unless the wrecks you want to penetrate are resting on their sides, backmounted doubles is a more effective way to move about inside a wreck, because they work better with the way ships are built for people to move through them before they become wrecks
OP
I will explain...for the umpteenth time. I have bad knees that preclude BM. 
INQuarryDiver
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Have you ever thought of trying split fins....?
OP
That's funny... haha
If I had physical issues that wouldn't enable me to successfully perform technical diving as optimally as possible, I'd recognize the risks, err on the conservative side, and focus my dive activities on areas where I could safely perform all necessary tasks and complete my dives with sufficient capacity to address any contingencies. And for that reason, I don't consider myself a technical diver or undertake dives typically considered beyond recreational
KevinNM
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I’m sure her other hobbies won’t suffer diving in the UK.
Ok, it was North CarolIna. All the same really... Capt JT's Wreck Diving Site - Diving Hatteras NC and Virginia Beach VAI saw there was one NJ (I think) boat with a lift. The modern world may arrive eventually
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