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Ontario Techdiving
What is Technical Diving? Essentially, it's diving that goes beyond the limits of traditional recreational SCUBA training: planned decompression, use of breathing mixtures other than air, diving beyond 130', entering "overhead environments" with no direct ascent to the surface possible, multiple tanks, and the like. The level of dedication, training, and equipment investment considerably exceeds that needed for casual diving. Me? I'm an mid-level techie, but not one of the Great Heroes of the Sport yet. If you're going to try this stuff, start off with some decent training.
Technical Gear Rigging
Although better explanations of technical gear rigging will be found in the pages below, I do have a piece I wrote up myself on taping up fin straps.
Where to Get Stuff
A growing number of dive stores are carrying technical gear; you'll more likely than not see good stuff that brand-new divers don't need yet at your local shop. A few that merit special mention:- Northern Tech Diver is a useful source. Check their pages for Halcyon/EE stuff. Nick is one of the best Poseidon-fixers in the province.
- Dive Source in Whitby (905-668-8566) looks interesting, but I haven't had a chance to visit them yet.
- Diverse-Tek in Sudbury is another spot I need to check out when I make it up there next.
Cave Diving
- AquaSpeleo
- Cave Divers Corner - Florida
- CaveDiving.com
- Ginnie Springs Resort
- KarstDive
- SCUBADUDEs (Caving / Yucatan)
- Sidemount Passage
- WKPP (Woodville Karst Plain Project)
- Wakulla II Exploration Project
Instruction in Technical Diving
- Alp-Maritimes Sports (NAUI Technical)
- Ian Marshall (IANTD)
Technical Diving Agencies
- GUE (Global Underwater Explorers)
- IANTD (International Association Of Nitrox and Technical Divers)
- NACD (National Association for Cave Diving)
- NAUI Tec Online
- NSS-CDS (National Speleological Society - Cave Diving Section)
Technical Diving Links
- Aquanaut (Home of the Techdiver List)
- Bikini Atoll
- Cobber's Home Page
- Count DracuGeorge
- Eric Lundquist's SCUBA Page - Pacific Northwest
- Great Lakes Technical Diving (Michigan)
- Immersed
- Jim Cobb's Trimix Page
- New Jersey SCUBA
- PalmPlanner
- Strokes-R-Us
- UK Diving
- Wreckdiver List
- Wrolf's Wreck
Technical Gear Configuration
- Airspeed Press (Oxyhacker's Companion)
- American Underwater Lighting
- Assembling a Hogarthian Cave Rig (by Todd Leonard)
- Brownie's Third Lung
- Building a light (by Roger Lacasse)
- Ceramatec
- DUI Home Page
- Dive-Rite Home Page
- Divematics,USA,Inc.
- Extreme Exposure Dive Gear
- Fifth Dimension "The Illustrated Hogarthian" Gear Configuration Pages (Still mostly incomplete)
- GAS Diving-UK
- Halcyon
- Lloyd Bailey's Scuba
- O2 Analyser
- Poseidon
- Reef Scuba
- UK Diving, Scuba Diving Resource for the UK with Dive International
- ZPlan
Underwater Exploration
- Cambrian Foundation
- Palau Twilight Zone Home Page
- WKPP (Woodville Karst Plain Project)
Last modified 2004-11-17 by Anthony DeBoer.