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I was kidding and am totally unexperienced with rebreathers...I just like playing with madmoleo'ring, obviously you aren't a RB diver, before you constantly put down units especially CCRs, find an experienced trainer and at least do an intro to ccr class.. you still may not like the units but at least you'll understand why people do and if trained properly why CCR divers have more bailout options available than either SCR or OC divers.. I'll even bet that when you try it in a pool you will really hate it, most people do at first since all you OC skills really screw you up on a CCR and you have to learn from scratch..
That was the reason I initially kicked off this thread - the technology is maturing, and they are becoming more accessable. I'm not about to plonk down the cash for a rebreather or training on one, but it's definitely something I want to work towards. By the time I get around to moving back to Australia (I promise I will one day O-ring) I reckon I'll have done a lot more dives, have some more advanced nitrox and possibly trimix training, and then I'll be thinking long and hard about dropping the cash for one. Especially given the cost of trimix diving in Australia. I'd probably look at the SCR/Nitrox ones like the Dolphin as a first rebreather though.madmole once bubbled...
Those that understand them know that they are the future of diving and that in a few years most of you will be looking back to those bad old days of cold bubble diving.
Scubaroo once bubbled...
How many rebreather divers are there on ScubaBoard? Which rebreather model are you using? Have you modified it at all? Do you use it with a backplate? Using Nitrox or Trimix?
madmole once bubbled...
Thats why I didn't reply to the obvious bait
It is a sore subject. There is a lot of nonsense spouted about rebreathers, which gets turned into "fact" by the equally uninformed
Those that understand them know that they are the future of diving and that in a few years most of you will be looking back to those bad old days of cold bubble diving. The units still have a way to go yet before they can be used by the open water brigade. But they are entering the mainstream
Heck the BSAC are even going to be running classes on them next year, and most branches have one or 2 in regular use. They do seem much more pervasive in the UK than the US though. mainly as the main bulk manufacturers of the affordable and usable units are all in Europe. You see them at every dive site here now