slinging = tech?

[CrazyHead]

An instructor told me that I shouldn't sling a pony bottle because that would be a stage which would be technical diving. He said my pony bottle has to be attached to my main tank or else it's a stage and its a tech dive.
Especially if its two al80 stages. Is it possible to do a recreational dive with doubles and two al80 stages? I think you can, I just drifted for 3 hours 30ft deep and it was a nice rec dive within NDL, but he says that its tech gear so its a tech dive, but I learned in my PADI OW that tech means deeper than 130ft or past NDL.
What do you say?

[gobfish1]

This instructor is talking out of his back side ,

[Zero]

Who care is its tech or rec. Did you have fun doing it? So the instructor want you to have 4 backmounted tanks so its not tech?

Matt

[CrazyHead]

Who care is its tech or rec. Did you have fun doing it? So the instructor want you to have 4 backmounted tanks so its not tech?

Matt

Well, he tried to tell me that to carry two stages I needed to take a "extended range" course. Which I believe, is where he takes you down to 180ft on air, not something *I* ever want to do. Not sure what that has to do with carrying stages either.

Yes, it was fun

He also thinks that using doubles, or even a backplate and wing, means tech.

[Diver Dennis]

Your instructor is wrong. He really thinks that wearing a BP/W is Tech diving? I would get an instructor who is more in tune with what is happening in diving today.

[Zero]

I think more to it get some practise up on the gear so you know where it sits on you and how it all works. I know you arent going deep but still make sure you know what reg your on and where its matching SPG is.

Matt

[SoCalDiveGirl]

Well, he tried to tell me that to carry two stages I needed to take a "extended range" course. Which I believe, is where he takes you down to 180ft on air, not something *I* ever want to do. Not sure what that has to do with carrying stages either.

Yes, it was fun

He also thinks that using doubles, or even a backplate and wing, means tech.

He's a quack.
Did you do planned decompression or gas switches? No.

Having the gear does not make you any more of a tech diver than a person who'd buy a rabbit fur coat and immediately think they were a rabbit.

I agree with with the comment that it sounds like the instructor just wants you to take more classes...
But out of curiousity-- why would you buy the "tech" gear if you didn't plan to go that route? Bp/w is understandable for the simplicity of the setup, but why stages and doubles?

[CrazyHead]

But out of curiousity-- why would you buy the "tech" gear if you didn't plan to go that route? Bp/w is understandable for the simplicity of the setup, but why stages and doubles?

I got the gear so I could do long shore dives. There are some sites 1000 or 2000 feet out from shore I like to visit, or sometimes there are sites that just aren't near the entry point.

[CCR Ada]

any dive with 2 2nd stages is tekky!



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[richardsantink]

any dive with 2 2nd stages is tekky!



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Figure?

Gee.. I dive with 2 second stages every time I dive... and if you *did* mean diving with two 1st stages, I don't think you'd find a single tech diver that'd support that argument for tech diving...



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