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Technical diving is a term devised by advanced sport divers who carry 
multiple tanks, breathe different gases and do dives that they considered 
to be deep and arduous, so as to enhance their status in an activity they 
pursue as  recreation on weekends and to separate themselves from weenie 
resort divers. The term stands to scuba diving as the term 
environmental engineer stands to janitorial activity. There is technical 
rock climbing, technical drawing, technical basket weaving, technical 
fowl (bird fanciers use this a lot), technical college, technical 
driving, technical knitting, all pursued by advanced afficinados of the 
activity. The word technical becomes more significant when life support 
is being used. But, because all divers use life support and because all 
divers can die during any particular dive and because most divers lead 
boring, mundane lives a new term implying greater skill and greater death 
defying activity was devised- technical diving. AND, of course, there has 
to be a tech diver computer forum where divers can enhance their status 
in the diving community even further by expressing just how much they know 
about all aspects of diving activity. Books are written, tech diving 
courses are generated and of course, c-cards for technical diving, the 
ultimate staus symbol. You don't even really have to dive to be a 
technical diver, you just need to know the jargon and how to talk about 
it. Especially about light bulb output, how much line you've strung in a 
cave, how many gas switching blocks you wear, what com gear is used, how 
 divers are stupid for dying while diving, how you represent the official 
dive team doing whatever dive on the Lusitania, how many wreck dives 
you've made. how many life threatening incidents you've escaped from, how 
deep you've dived, and whether you breathe argon, neon, freon or peon 
during a dive. FRANKLY, diving is diving and the only true measure of 
one's status-for males- is the length of your penis. Below a certain 
length you are a weenie, above it you are a DIVER. For females it is 
whether or not you dive with sharks during you period. 

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