Here is some background information first....
I do over 100 dives a year ranging from 15ft to 150ft. Between teaching and diving for fun I can go do a 20 ft dive for one full day of diving to jumping on a wreck charter and diving a 130ft wreck the next day.
I enjoy long dives but hate carrying tons of weight and loathe doing very long deco. I limit most of my deco to around 15mins with O2, since I don't want to carry the tanks that I would need on the bottom to get the really really long bottom times they would afford.
I hate carrying huge tanks, and that's the reason I went sidemount for almost all of my diving.
I'm looking to be able to do a nice hour long + dives at 130 - 60 ft without killing myself with huge doubles and stages.
Would I be able to do these dives on a Hollis Explorer? or would I need to go to a full CCR? How does the Explorer or other SCR handle deco and whatnot since there isn't a set PO2?
I know the explorer wasn't designed to do tech diving but what I'm asking is it possible for the unit to do some "Tech lite" type dives?
I do over 100 dives a year ranging from 15ft to 150ft. Between teaching and diving for fun I can go do a 20 ft dive for one full day of diving to jumping on a wreck charter and diving a 130ft wreck the next day.
I enjoy long dives but hate carrying tons of weight and loathe doing very long deco. I limit most of my deco to around 15mins with O2, since I don't want to carry the tanks that I would need on the bottom to get the really really long bottom times they would afford.
I hate carrying huge tanks, and that's the reason I went sidemount for almost all of my diving.
I'm looking to be able to do a nice hour long + dives at 130 - 60 ft without killing myself with huge doubles and stages.
Would I be able to do these dives on a Hollis Explorer? or would I need to go to a full CCR? How does the Explorer or other SCR handle deco and whatnot since there isn't a set PO2?
I know the explorer wasn't designed to do tech diving but what I'm asking is it possible for the unit to do some "Tech lite" type dives?