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| Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] ]I'm just at the point where I want to push myself a bit more when diving and start to do some planned deco dives. At the moment I dive a single + pony with a BC. So I need to spend a bit of money getting the right kit, wing, BP twins etc. |
Most people try to minimise deco and the first way to do that is to dive Nitrox. This enables longer dives with no deco. A much better alternative than planned deco. For dives with a few minutes of deco you have perfectly adequate kit. If you start to chalk up the deco and want to reduce it then you're into accelerated deco - stages or CCR (SCR requires stage cylinders to switch gas just like CCR
Edit that should say OC). To do this most people would suggest that you upgraded your kit.
Note that Nitox is a prerequisite for SCR or CCR training.
As for comparing costs then you will never recoup your money on a CCR if you dive to less than 50m within 10 ish years. Theres a thread on Dnet where Vic and I discuss this.
Here
Scotty