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Originally Posted by Gareth J

Sorry if this is seen as a thread hi-jack, it is not meant to be, but replys may warrant us opening a new thread.

I have read the Chase, Howard, Jano's trip report with interest.

The critisism that they didn't enjoy the caves seems a little unfair. They have said the caves where interesting, but the report is on the course. Having done courses overseas myself, I can fully understand that your focus is on the course not the enviroment.

From my view they seemed to have explained the 'course' at length & the impact of the stress involved on each other & the team as a whole. This I found extremely interesting. Within this they have also documented each & every kit failure no matter how minor. In fact, they highlighted the most minor failures & how this impacted on the abort routines they adopted & again the effect on the team.

I feel it is a shame that the thread is deteriorating into an argument about the strenghts & weakness's of CCR & OC. If we wish to discuss this we should start another thread.

Please remember on OC failure to a non-diver seems very dangerous, even if to a OC diver it is a easy to resolve mitigate.
For most OC divers, CCR take on the same degree of seriousness, although for the CCR diver it may well be a minor irritation.

Gareth

See here : Entry level Cave diving - OC vs RB