technical diving
Beyond recreational limits
Technical diving is scuba diving that goes beyond recreational limits—deeper depths, longer bottom times, decompression stops, or penetration into wrecks and caves.
It typically requires specialized equipment like multiple tanks, mixed gases (nitrox, trimix, heliox), and redundant systems.
Technical divers train extensively for environments where direct ascent to the surface isn't possible: The wreck sits at 200 feet, so it's strictly a technical dive.
- decompressionReduction of pressure
- nitroxEnriched air for diving
- rebreatherDevice recycling exhaled gas
- wreckDestroyed vessel or vehicle
- caveUnderground hollow in rock
stops · tables · run time · helium · depth · ascent · redundancy · buoyancy · regulator · drysuit · cylinders · penetration · overhead · narcosis · backplate · wing · bailout · stage
- divingscuba, dive mask, dive helmet, forward dive, back dive
- underwater activitiessnorkeling, freediving, underwater photography, underwater exploration, spearfishing
- scuba divingscuba, regulator, BCD, wetsuit, fins
- diving medicinedecompression sickness, barotrauma, the bends, bends, hyperbaric chamber
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