I'm going on the Allstar Liveaboards Red Sea boat (the All Star Scuba Scene) March 4 - 11.
We'll be doing their North itinerary. (diving the Thistlegorm has been on my bucket list for a while!)
The boat offers OC technical and CCR support.
I'm trying to decide whether to bother taking my CCR on this trip.
I looked up dive site info for every site on the North itinerary. It looks like all but one site are a max of 30m depth. One said 40m. And I should add that a couple of the sites are at the edge of a wall, so in those places one could dive as deep as you wanted. But, the stuff to see there is all on the reef at the top of the wall (i.e. relatively shallow).
I don't think it's worth the hassle or expense to take a CCR if I'm doing pretty much all my dives at 30m or less. I can rent an OC twinset, if I just want long, shallow dives. I don't care about diving deep just to see a bigger number on my computer. I'm not trying to "build hours" on my CCR or practice doing technical dives. I do enough of all that at home.
On the other hand, why does this boat even have tech and CCR support, if there's not good diving to do that requires it? Is it just so they can teach tech off that boat, and offer support for it so relatively new tech or CCR divers can have a nice liveaboard to dive from while they are developing their new skills? Is it because their southern itineraries have other, better opportunities for technical diving?
Is their diving on this itinerary that I'm going to regret missing, if I don't take my CCR?
Thanks for any insight!
We'll be doing their North itinerary. (diving the Thistlegorm has been on my bucket list for a while!)
The boat offers OC technical and CCR support.
I'm trying to decide whether to bother taking my CCR on this trip.
I looked up dive site info for every site on the North itinerary. It looks like all but one site are a max of 30m depth. One said 40m. And I should add that a couple of the sites are at the edge of a wall, so in those places one could dive as deep as you wanted. But, the stuff to see there is all on the reef at the top of the wall (i.e. relatively shallow).
I don't think it's worth the hassle or expense to take a CCR if I'm doing pretty much all my dives at 30m or less. I can rent an OC twinset, if I just want long, shallow dives. I don't care about diving deep just to see a bigger number on my computer. I'm not trying to "build hours" on my CCR or practice doing technical dives. I do enough of all that at home.
On the other hand, why does this boat even have tech and CCR support, if there's not good diving to do that requires it? Is it just so they can teach tech off that boat, and offer support for it so relatively new tech or CCR divers can have a nice liveaboard to dive from while they are developing their new skills? Is it because their southern itineraries have other, better opportunities for technical diving?
Is their diving on this itinerary that I'm going to regret missing, if I don't take my CCR?
Thanks for any insight!