Twinset/ Rebreather question.

[Spike Jackson]

Originally Posted by Janos

Hum.

I would go for the twinset first, and do a couple of seasons on that.

Why do you want to dive a rebreather? I don't mean that rhetorically, but you really do need to answer that question to your own satisfaction. What are you reasons for choosing it? If it's more time at depth, then if you're currently diving a single then a twinset should give you a few hundred dives diving new stuff you haven't done before.

If you end up going to a rebreather in a year or two, then you can sell your twinset, and worse case you'll lose £100 on it, (assuming you don't keep it for an air bank). And let's face it, £100 is less than half the cost of a new set of cells, which you have to replace every year.

It took me around 18 months from first starting to think about a rebreather to actually stumping up the cash for one. If I was you, I'd spend that time by doing some enjoyable diving on a twinset.

Janos

I would agree that you should think very carefully before committing your cash to the unit but the twinset route is going to cost way more than £100. By the time most people go to a RB they have minimum two twinsets (and frequently 3 - 2 sets of 12's then 15's or 18's) plus 2 back gas regs, wing and harness. Depending on the unit you end up buying you may be able to use the wing and harness again but the rest will be flogged at a significant loss.
Whichever route you go don't rush to the deep stuff - there are loads of fantatsic wrecks in medium depths to gain experience on.