Technical or Recreational?--summary

Deep diving is a type of technical diving that requires additional training from the customary recreational certification. It began as a challenge to see who could hold the record of depth and mixed gas use. Technical diving is much more difficult than recreational diving. There are around 100 deaths each year out of a million divers or 2.74 for ever y 100,000 divers. In the technical diving area there are about 110 out of every 100,000 divers a year in diving related accidents. Technical diving is overwhelmingly more dangerous that recreation diving. Additional training will never make technical diving as safe as recreational diving because the very makeup of the activity is dangerous. Ten percent of the recreational deaths were because the divers were trying to do activities that were in the technical range without the needed training. They tried to do something that was “clearly outside their individual skills and limits”.