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| Originally Posted by SoggyFox read that its good. comes across as MOD1 with nobs on.
anyhoooo all DIRers are slags, that better? 
i'm just trying to get to the nuts an bolts of the thinking. If they are soooo dangerous then why teach them at all, why add in a level of danger at point at which the diver will be taking these into an extreme environment.
Or do all those who've got RB80's then proceed to return to the 'normal' depths and gain experience on these units before attempting 'big' dives. So why not teach it earlier and let the diver learn the unit as he learns the diving. Better for the diver to learn with the unit than feel an undue pressure to return to the diving they've been doing before and come unstuck at a point where the maximum danger exists. |
From talking to someone trained on the RB80 by Reinhard Buchaly (the RB in RB80) a few years ago, it's not so much that they're inherently more dangerous than any other SCR, it's seems to be more a fact that they weren't ever meant to be a commercial thing. More for exploration grade work really.
AFAICS the ones who do get them, do the same as most RB divers, they get their hours/skills up at shallower dives and don't go 97,000 feet into a cave on dive 3.
Which is what Al and Clare are doing now from what Al said last time we spoke.
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