Scuba Q and A:

What Is Your Reason For Technical Diving?

Q. What is your reason for doing technical diving?

Answer:

I look at it as “tools in my tool box“.

I need to possess the right tools to allow me to achieve my diving objectives.

These tools include the training, knowledge, equipment and mindset necessary to safely mitigate the increasing hazards that apply as time/distance to the surface increases.

Technical diving simply provides me with more tools to attain deeper depths for longer durations and/or to operate safely inside confined overhead environments.

My personal diving objectives are to reach and explore submerged wrecks. Being able to venture deeper, and stay for prolonged durations, allows me to conduct a wider range of exploration.

About the Author

Andy Davis is a RAID, PADI TecRec, ANDI, BSAC and SSI qualified independent technical diving instructor who specializes in teaching advanced sidemount, trimix and wreck exploration diving courses across South East Asia. Currently residing in ‘wreck diving heaven’ at Subic Bay, Philippines, he has amassed more than 9000 open circuit and CCR dives over 27 years of diving across the globe.

Andy has published many magazine articles on technical diving, has written course materials for dive training agency syllabus, tests and reviews diving gear for major manufacturers and consults with the Philippines Underwater Archaeology Society.

He is currently writing a series of books to be published on advanced diving topics. Prior to becoming a professional technical diving educator in 2006, Andy was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force and has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Belize and Cyprus.