Like many divers, I've been a little interested in "one day" gettig a rebreather. I've spent my share of time reading up on them just to satisfy my curiousity.
What Thal just hit on, and what strikes a chord with me is that if I don't fully commit to diving a rebreather, it's probably not the best move to make.
What I know from my previous experiences in shooting, as well as snow boarding and skiing (I moved to Utah JUST to ski, and later to Alaska JUST to ski)........is that skills are perishable.
I'm a vacation skiier now, and I'm no where near as good as I was when I lived right next to great skiing.
Skills just degrade if they aren't used regularly.
It seems reasonable to ME that unless I were going to exclusively dive a rebreather then it wouldn't make sense to get one.
I wouldn't want a perishing skill set to end up biting me in the ass.
Maybe one day, I'll decide that I CAN fully commit all of my dive time and resources to rebreather diving. But at this point, it's all OC diving.
Thanks Thal.......you just saved me a bunch of money.......you're like the Geico gekko of diving.
-Mitch