There is something called the Bee Law, and it is lovely:
“According to earlier laws of Aviation, there was no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are way too small to get its fat little body off the ground.
The bees, of course, flew anyway. Because bees didn’t care what humans thought was impossible”.
We have the same problem in the underwater community. Tec, Rec, CCR definition’s are useful for structure and analysis of techniques and procedures but we must remember that we are still in the early times of diving.
Technical diving is broadly defined by the underwater community. It’s definition changes with almost every real innovation in the industry because everything is changing, because diving evolves. That is why, according to Dr. Drew Richardson, President DSAT TDD “The definition of tec diving is loose – it is sport diving that’s whatever recreational diving is not. Tec diving is about diving’s dreamers – the individuals who see what is possible when others can’t. Today’s tec diving may be tomorrow’s recreational diving.”
The “looseness” of the definition comes from the traditional approach to Diving. Diving needs a new approach, a flexible approach. Flexibility is what nitrox, tec and ccr diving are about, going past the “human” SCUBA millestone limits in order to refine Diving.
As divers, we love definitions but we dont need them to go underwater; we can go reckless without them anyway and some often do. The problem is that definitions can often hold the underwater community from getting wet.
