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Shaun, "Technical Diving" is indeed, as you suggest a "state of mind." But I think that you make the concept slightly more complex than the term was intended to be when coined. Technical diving is to diving, as technical climbing is climbing, it has to do with equipment. What it comes down to is you cross the threshold when your emergency response is equipment dependent, thus (at the ridiculous extremes) a diver who is not comfortable making a 30 foot free ascent and carries a "spare air" meets the initial concept of technical diving while a single tank deep air diver who stays within the no-Decompression limits and is comfortable with a 190 foot free ascent does not. A little common sense applied to the middle ground makes sense fo. the concept. You are right about the state of mind because the mental set of the equipment depended technical diver (and do not take that as a pejorative, there's no other possible way to get those kinds of dives done) is very different from that of the non-equipment dependent (who must all be no-D and usually very shallow) divers. Phil Sharkey Phil -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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