
On Technical Diving
Divers often ask me, "What is technical diving?" My usual response is, "diving outside of recreational limits", but it encompasses more than just that. The recreational depth limit of scuba, 130ft is not your only limitation. It is also diving outside of No Decompression Limits (NDL). Any dive where you cannot directly access the surface, be it a dive in an overhead environment or a dive involving a decompression obligation before surfacing should be classified as a technical