This can be a difficult question to answer. It's certainly not for everyone, and shouldn’t be seen as a natural progression in your diving if you’re happy doing what you’re doing. What Technical Diving can offer though is the opportunity to explore dive sites that recreational scuba cannot reach. Tec diving is for those divers who are looking for adventure and challenge but who are also willing to accept the risks, costs and training requirements.
Technical Diving courses will challenge and push you in ways you didn't know, and train you to do things under water that you may not have ever thought possible, but this is all necessary for you to achieve the end goal of decompression diving, you will learn how to use a mountain of new equipment and how to deal with any eventuality you can think of underwater when the surface could be 60 metres away in depth or more than an hour in time due to your decompression requirements.
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Is it for me?
For most divers, diving on a single cylinder setup is perfectly adequate. Their skill levels are also often adequate for the type of diving they want to do. These divers will most often dive on holiday or as an occasional hobby, they may also choose to take further training to enhance their skill level such as the PADI Rescue Diver course or various specialty courses. For these divers, they have most likely reached the level they want to get to.
If you find yourself wanting to dive for longer or go deeper then perhaps the twin set route is for you. But just because you choose to dive with a twin set doesn’t mean that you have to go all the way down the tec route either. You may just be looking for the extra gas volume or the extra redundancy that a twin set can offer.
Some days you will wish you hadn't started the course, but by the end you can be rightly proud of your achievement, your skill level will be significantly improved, and your confidence underwater will be too. Your ability to deal with an emergency will become instinctive. You will be pushed and challenged in ways that will seem sadistic at times, and if you think we're trying to put you off, then to a certain extent, you'd be right, tec diving is not for everyone. You must accept the added costs, training, equipment and potential dangers that this brings, but if you do, boy will you have fun.