deco question

[Mark Chase]

Originally Posted by Freeflow

Ever had a play on one?

No I discounted them out of hand as by the time i was even contemplating CCR /SCR I was diving trimix.

As I said above they have a place of the diver who does a lot of diving but doesn't go deep. I am guilty of thinking any one who invests that much on kit is going to be doing bigger deeper dives. This is of course rubbish and plenty of divers way more experienced than I am have never been below 35-40m.

I also didn't realize how cheep they are second hand?

So back peddling furiously

If you want one? get one

ATB

Mark Chase

[Janos]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

No I discounted them out of hand as by the time i was even contemplating CCR /SCR I was diving trimix.

As I said above they have a place of the diver who does a lot of diving but doesn't go deep. I am guilty of thinking any one who invests that much on kit is going to be doing bigger deeper dives. This is of course rubbish and plenty of divers way more experienced than I am have never been below 35-40m.

I also didn't realize how cheep they are second hand?

So back peddling furiously

If you want one? get one

ATB

Mark Chase

One of the big reasons for me going CCR was that if I went away for the weekend, the first dive would be done using optimal gases which I'd got from my LDS. However the second, third, and fourth dives would be done on progressively weaker mixes as I air topped from what was available.

Janos

[Freeflow]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

If you want one? get one

Got mine 18 months ago...6 months after my normoxic ticket.

If you fancy a puddle jump on mine somtime I'm sure we can meet up and you can have a play. Just don't tell anyone

[Angleseyskipper]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

Kit hassle and risk assessment.


Rigging a CCR to go dive the Loanda in 24m or to go lobster hunting off the beech in Dover, is a waste of time. Twin 7s will do the job and they are lighter and take far less time to rig. When we did a few 20-30m dives in Cuba the other day I used a single 12 on a little wing. I couldent see the point of lugging a CCR half way arround the world to do those dives.

Personally I see ALL ccr dives as having a high degree of risk. Lets face it CCR divers have died in swimming pools and in less than 10m of water. The point at which the safety benefit out weighed the inherent risk for me is past 60m or on big penetration dives.

However i prefer use trimix 30m+ because i don't particularly like narcosis and CCR is a cheep way of doing it so 30m-60m I dive CCR for cost benefit reasons.


ATB

Mark Chase

i can understand the travel thing as it must cost a fortune to lug one round the world , but when your over here ya still go OC.
agreed the mix thing is cheap on the ccr but i don't get your risk assessment thing determining what you dive with it.
Do you not run a standard rig for the shallow stuff?
Personally i think its just a nice way to dive and i just can't see why anyone would want to do OC if they had the choice of CCR regardless of depth.
all that noise just does my head in !!
its you comment on your CCr being high risk to the point of needing to justify the dive on it which i find strange mark.
Are you really happy with what your doing?
elfyn