What is Technical Diving? 

Thank you! There's enough negativity as it is so I'm trying to bring something positive to the conversation. Thank you for noticing and supporting! ☺️

Yes. The most critical point in the dive!

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I partially agree, I think everyone would benefit from certain fundamentals (like diving with redundancy, single handed skills and basic decompression theory) but I also think Tec isn't for everyone, so they purposely keep it off the "logical" next steps. I do also wish it was featured a bit more prevalently. But I guess it's up to us, the Tec community, to offer it and make it attractive.

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Thanks dude! That's such a nice comment! Now take the plunge and become a diver! You got my support 👊

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Thank you! I agree that even in the "prime" of one's life decompression theory is at best an indication of what could be safe. Too many divers think if they follow their deco algorithm it will protect them like bullet proof armor. The best divers are the conservative ones!

I'm new to diving. At what age should be considered prohibitive to tech diving ?

@@leonardrichards9079 It's a very personal decision as the science is not really clear about how depth and pressure affects the aging body. I am in my late 60's and I just don't have the need to dive below say 45 meters anymore. The body changes as it ages, and I just find that I can enjoy shallower cave dives and reef diving to 30 meters without affecting the many injuries I have accumulated over the years. Just as my exercise regime has changed, so has my diving, and in some ways, I enjoy it even more as all of my dives now are stress free and meditative, as I no longer need to push my envelop.

@@rabukan5842 Thank You for sharing your experience with me. I am new and late in age to the sport at 58. It's nice to know that a lot of enjoyment and " meditative" enjoyment exist within those limits for me. I just did my dry suit certification and looking forward to making the right equipment purchases the first time. Your response has helped me to put the computer purchase in prospective. Max depth 130 feet. Thanks again.

@@leonardrichards9079 You are welcome. Just remember, to have stressless/meditative dives, you want to stay at the depth or within the limits of your skill level. That doesn't mean you can't explore new things under the ocean. It just means that you remain comfortable - the way you might be when walking around your own backyard. At my level, my skills are 2nd nature and this allows my dives to be more meditative. At your level, practicing your skills can also be meditative, once you no longer have to think about them.

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Thank you! I hope it's informational!

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Hi Morgan! The Mexico cenote trip requires nothing more than Advanced certification and Nitrox to make it a bit more worth while. It's cavern diving, not cave, so no technical certification is required!

Hi Morgan. I just commented a bit about deco and aging. I am a full tech instructor/cave/cave rebreathers... I am 65 and I am already slowing myself down as I've done the tec/cave dives I wanted to, and now I just enjoy being in the water. Period. At 70, 5 years older, you might feel differently as you are still in the learning process. But some of the best advice I could give is to know that we do not know what technical decompression diving (as explained in this video) does to the aging body. There are so many wonderful dives that you can do that do not require serious technical planning and execution, where the risks are much, much lower. It all depends on how much risk you want to take. But I'd say at 70, you have accomplished a lot. Just enjoy, safely. I do know of 80 year olds taking trimix courses, but that's not something I would recommend. 30-40 meter ocean, cave, wreck dives for more than 60 minutes still excite me, and there is still enough planning and execution to make me feel like a tech diver... lite :)

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Thank you! It's a basic video but the goal is to inform people who are new to tec diving. 👊💙

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Thank you for watching! 😊 If you look again you will notice I said "O2 toxicity" not "OTU toxicity" which would be an incorrect term anyways.

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@@DiveSAGA Great! May I ask your course requirements? Which agency are you teaching

@@francisbevacqua8014 we teach PADI so they're divided in Trimix 65 and Full Trimix. If you're interested, you can have a look on our website here: www.dive-utila.com/technical

@@DiveSAGA Question for you, I have my adv Nitrox & deco through TDI, does that matter?

It's not a bad thing that the training takes a while. The worst divers were trained too fast! So take your time and focus on being competent. Good luck with the course, you will love it! 👊

@@DiveSAGA I should be 🤞licensed🤞 by may, so if you happen to be close to the Netherlands I'd love to learn. I'm definitely planning to do a lot of different specialties.

It's pure Helium. I think they put some oxygen in the one used for baloons so people don't pass out when joking around.