[Jack]

Technical diving is anything that denies you direct access to the surface. So that means diving in a hard (cave/ wreck) or soft (decompression) overhead. Because of this, you need additional training, equipment, and planning to handle a myriad of eventualities while remaining underwater. All critical gear is redundant, gases are selected and planned to support a variety of contingencies, and procedures are established and practiced in order to mitigate as much risk as possible from numerous emergency scenarios.

Becoming a technical diver requires time, patience, MONEY, and a good mentor/instructor. That path you take to get there should depend on your goals. If you want to be a technical diver just to be a technical diver, you should reconsider your motives. If you want to see wrecks, caves, deep stuff, then that's how you need to lay out a training plan. Find some technical divers in the area and go on a practice dive with them. Ask questions, see what they do, how often they dive, how much work it takes to plan and execute dives. Most people tend to grossly underestimate the time, effort, and money required to do these dives proficiently. If you think you are ready for that kind of commitment, then come join the madness